{"id":3644,"date":"2008-08-26T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2008-08-26T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T01:56:29","slug":"democratic-convention-liveblogging-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/26\/democratic-convention-liveblogging-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Convention Liveblogging: Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typo week continues here at dy, as I liveblog Hillary Clinton’s speech.<\/p>\n

6:55: Hmm, Mark Warner is still speaking. He just told a convoluted story that ended with “and that’s how I wound up at the gymnasium of a high school.” Right. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that you keep getting older, but they stay the saaaaame age.<\/p>\n

6:59: And so ends the keynote speech. Four years ago, right at this moment, I was shouting at the television, “Holy shit dude, you’re gonna be President some day!”<\/p>\n

7:00: By the way, some funnyguy-and\/or-gal at Slate is also liveblogging the convention at http:\/\/twitter.com\/Slate<\/a>. Go check it out, or just keep refreshing my site–I’m gonna steal all the good jokes from there anyhow.<\/p>\n

7:05: They are interviewing Michelle Obama now. She seems a little confused. They keep asking asking her, “what were you trying to do in your speech last night?’ and she’s, all, “I thought I covered that ground … in the speech … last night …”<\/p>\n

7:12: Michelle says that one of the things her husband will do as President is “touch people”.
\nFunny, Hillary said the same thing in 1992 …<\/p>\n

7:14: WTF, I thought Hillary was on at 7:00. No? Well, she better not come on in the next 40 minutes, because now I’m a-gonna watch this episode of Prison Break<\/em>.<\/p>\n

7:25: Okay, so see this guy is a structural engineer, and he purposely got himself locked into prison because brother, who’s on death row, was framed for– maybe I should stop liveblogging now.<\/p>\n

7:30: Switching back and forth between Prison Break<\/em> and the convention. They are starting to blur together. Except at the convention we’re not trying to get out of jail, we are trying to get out of Republican rule. And instead of looking at ripped young men in undershirts, we get to see David Brooks.<\/p>\n

7:34: Oh, here we go: Hillary Clinton pre-speech video biography. They just showed a picture of Bill with the caption “Hillary’s Husband”<\/p>\n

7:40: Holy smokes, I bet the Clintons went another $12m is debt making that tribute to themselves.<\/p>\n

7:41: Hillary looks fabulous. Independent corroboration: Bill is leering at his own wife.<\/p>\n

7:43: Affirmed her support for Obama in the first sentence. And the second. And the third. This is going to be a full-throated endorsement of unity.<\/p>\n

7:45: Whoa, they just showed Michelle and she was either choked up with emotion or giving Hillary the hairy eyeball. GO BACK I WANT TO KNOW WHICH!!<\/p>\n

7:48: A big shout-out to my homie autism. WOOOHOO!<\/p>\n

7:50: LOL’d at “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits”<\/p>\n

7:52: ZZZzzzzzzzz laundry list of Bush bad, my campaign good.<\/p>\n

7:55: Beginning to think she’s going to accept the nomination at the end of this speech.<\/p>\n

7:56: Okay, here we go. Making a strong case of Barack. Although when she said, “It won’t be easy” I thought for a moment she was going to finish with, “supporting Obama.”<\/p>\n

7:58: Michelle is still making that face. You can tell that the networks aren’t sure what it means either, because as soon as they cut to her they cut away as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

8:00: Dude, McCain just got brutalized.<\/p>\n

8:03: They’ve given up on Michelle. Now they are just cutting to Chelsea.<\/p>\n

8:05: I don’t really understand where that the Harriet Tubman digression came from, but the audience lapped it up.<\/p>\n

8:06: Conservative spin tomorrow, today: Speech didn’t end with “God bless America” and is therefore invalid in the continental US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very nice speech. Very, very nice, I’m really impressed. She spoke about herself a fair amount as was her right, but her challenge to her supporters–were you voting for me, or were you voting for the best possible future for America?–is an almost irrefutable argument in favor of Obama.<\/p>\n

Hillary is going to get rave reviews for this speech, as well she should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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