Sep 4
The party he saw tonight is a group of people who have been discouraged by how things have been going lately, who are sick about the setbacks, but who want to dig in harder not only to get through the tough times but also to get back to pushing toward the goals set in 2008. There were rousing cries in Charlotte from Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and from San Antonio mayor Julián Castro. But it was all surpassed by a very personal and emotional speech by First Lady Michelle Obama, who was radiant and lovely and upbeat, and in my opinion (and probably the opinion of the little social-studies-nerd kid too) one of the coolest human beings on the planet.Imagine some precocious kid out there who’s a social-studies nerd at age 7 or 8 — a kid who could recite the names of the U.S. presidents, in order, back when he was 5 or 6. Tonight he wanted to tune in to the Democrats’ convention in Charlotte so he could really figure out firsthand what Democrats are.
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd weighed the passion of the crowd elicited by the First Lady against the passion in Tampa last week at the Republicans’ convention: “In Tampa, the passion on the floor, when you saw it, was not for Mitt Romney. It was all against the president.”
I’m not sure that positive energy always outshines negative energy, but I’m confident that a lot of people out there are ready to go to work to try to ensure that it does this time.
Look for Barack Obama‘s own speech at the convention to rock big time.
Sep 4
Michelle’s biggest fans were watching from home: twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 5, 2012
Sep 2
We want Betty F*ckin’ White.

Guess who?
Sep 2
James Lipton
James Lipton of Inside The Actors Studio gives his analysis of Clint Eastwood‘s “empty chair bit,” which contains insights into the art of improvisation.
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Sep 1
How many lies can we catch Willard “Mitt” Romney in? Didn’t he just say the other day he’d “wished” President Obama would have “succeeded”?
Well there’s video to prove otherwise.
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Mitt Romney himself said — eight days after Obama was inaugurated — that he “partially agree[d]” with Rush Limbaugh who said he hoped Obama would fail.

Lies, lies, lies
Sep 1

You get a Lincoln, and you get a Lincoln!
“The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, freed the slaves, and the Republican party — to this very day — has never stopped fighting for the black man…Romney and Ryan are polling at zero percent among blacks…they couldn’t get a black guy to vote for them if they gave him a Lincoln…” –Bill Maher, August 31, 2012
Aug 31
I loved a sassy Prez. This is from the Barack Obama official Facebook page.

It sure is
Aug 30

Clint Eastwood and ‘President Obama’
Clint Eastwood was having a rambling, bizarre conversation with an empty chair and now there’s a Twitter account entitled Invisible Obama.
I think Clint Eastwood truly thinks Prez Obama is on stage with him.
#dementia#rnc— Simply-Showbiz.com (@simplyshowbiz) August 31, 2012
“[Clint Eastwood] fake interviewed an empty chair as if it was Barack Obama, the president of the United States, swearing at him. That was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen at a political convention in my entire life. And it will be the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen if I live to be 100.”
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The only thing that came close to topping Eastwood was when some random RNC attendee shouted “No, no, no!! Don’t touch me!!” to Romney as he was making his way onto the stage. Who was that guy?
Oh, and then Romney made fun of climate change and tried to incite a new cold war with Russia.
Way to set the bar high.