Democratic Party Convention General Thread

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meltzerboy said:
He gave a great speech, whether or not one agrees with all (or any) of his main points. I think he has improved a lot in his delivery.
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I liked the beginning, I don’t share his disdain for people who have money though.
 
Thorolfr said:
Michelle Obama’s speech was outstanding. I especially liked it when she said, "Don’t let anyone tell you that our country isn’t great, that we need to make it great again… This is the greatest country on Earth." And when she said that we don’t want someone “thin-skinned with a tendency to lash out” in charge of our nation’s military, we all knew who she was talking about and she didn’t have to name Donald Trump by name even once.

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It’s nice she finally thinks so. She certainly has said the opposite in the past.
 
Cider said:
I liked the beginning, I don’t share his disdain for people who have money though.
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The disdain should be directed at a system that allows 1% to make 85% of all the profits and 1 tenth of 1% to own as much as the other 90%. That 1 tenth of 1% doesn’t deserve to have that much wealth. No one deserves to have that much money.
 
Good_Tidings said:
Agreed. Bravo!! Now Michelle Obama is knocking it out of the park!
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I liked our First Lady’s line about not letting anyone tell you America is not already great. That we are the greatest nation on earth. I thought the first night of this convention was already so much more uplifting than last week’s convention.
 
meltzerboy said:
He gave a great speech, whether or not one agrees with all (or any) of his main points. I think he has improved a lot in his delivery.
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Sanders speeches including the one tonight sound very strident to me. I don’t care for that speaking style and that’s why I didn’t care for Trump’s speech either. But Sanders did make a lot of good points in his speech.
 
Thorolfr said:
Michelle Obama’s speech was outstanding. I especially liked it when she said, “Don’t let anyone tell you that our country isn’t great, that we need to make it great again… This is the greatest country on Earth.” And when she said that we don’t want someone “thin-skinned with a tendency to lash out” in charge of our nation’s military, we all knew who she was talking about and she didn’t have to name Donald Trump by name even once.

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Sorry Thorolfr, didn’t see that you liked that America is already the greatest country on earth too before my post. 👍
 
Sy_Noe said:
I liked our First Lady’s line about not letting anyone tell you America is not already great. That we are the greatest nation on earth. I thought the first night of this convention was already so much more uplifting than last week’s convention.
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I’ll take the truth over pandering blandishments.
 
Thorolfr said:
Michelle Obama’s speech was outstanding. I especially liked it when she said, “Don’t let anyone tell you that our country isn’t great, that we need to make it great again… This is the greatest country on Earth.” And when she said that we don’t want someone “thin-skinned with a tendency to lash out” in charge of our nation’s military, we all knew who she was talking about and she didn’t have to name Donald Trump by name even once.

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I actually think she is trying to undo the damage when she said “for the first time I am proud of my country” 8 years ago. Obama took every chance he could to take a swipe at America.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I actually think she is trying to undo the damage when she said “for the first time I am proud of my country” 8 years ago. Obama took every chance he could to take a swipe at America.
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If there was damage it sure didn’t keep her from serving going on 8 yrs now as First Lady. There are things I’m not proud of. That doesn’t mean it’s not great. Just that it isn’t perfect.
 
Thorolfr said:
Michelle Obama’s speech was outstanding. I especially liked it when she said, "Don’t let anyone tell you that our country isn’t great, that we need to make it great again
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Now, the thing that gets me, and I say it as a non-American, is why can’t many Americans see the truth of this?

It AIN’T broke, and Trump by saying that he can fix it and make it great is simply fear-mongering and appealing to the worst side of human nature.
I can’t see a lot of difference between his tactics and those of Hitler, except that in fact Germany really WAS] down and out after WWI and the German people were humiliated and despairing for their country.
I really fear for America if Trump is elected. His isolationist policies aren’t going to help “make America great again”. And he’s not temperamentally fit for the role, has zero “gravitas” which a POTUS surely should have, and may even make the US a laughing stock.
This is not really belonging to this thread, I guess…
 
7_Sorrows said:
yes. she thinks she is like royalty and she is not.
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Well she is the daughter of rich parents, so like all rich children, she probably does think of herself as royalty. She is hardly unique in that respect though.
 
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