- Giffords! #
- Aw, I actually missed it. Just closing up at work and saw her on the stage. Just after she finished. Oh well, will see the repeat later. #
- Just got home. I know Biden is about to start, but Alex really wants to show me his new pants right now. #
- Oh, sorry, new PLANTS! For his room. He is very proud of them. #
- Here’s Biden! #
- It was Tuesday night. Not last night or Monday. #Joementum #
- Everybody saying Biden ad-libbing too. Pulling it off so far. #
- I remember liking Biden when he was running, what, decades ago? :-) #
- I was thinking about 1988. Long time ago. #
- Would have been better than Dukakis. #
- Once again hard to listen. Toddler desperately trying to get my attention instead. #
- Went outside to escape. Will try to watch the rest now. Love my son, but kinda upset I’ve missed so much of Biden. :-( #
- Watching non-live later just isn’t the same. :-) #
- I am always uncomfortable with the glorification of killing OBL. #
- MT @natsecHeather yo @attackerman I think you just got the end of your GWOT there with the closing a wound language about why OBL mattered. #
- Lots of people tonight talking about how hawkish the Dems are this time, while the R’s… not so much. Way different than previous cycles. #
- RT @joshrogin Is Biden gonna mention he advised Obama not to go through with the raid on OBL? #
- RT @ZekeJMiller Biden: ” But in case you didn’t notice, they didn’t have the courage to tell you what calls they would make. ” #
- RT @mattyglesias Surprised they don’t cover OBL’a head in tar and stick it on a spike in Lafayette Park. #
- RT @dandrezner Biden blasting the creation of jobs overseas Yeah!! F**k the rest of the world!! #headdesk #
- They followed me outside. :-/ #
- Alex on my lap again. #
- Missed the last five minutes. #
- Alex upset and crying. Me upset and distracted. Now in quiet place to watch. I think. Missed most of it. #
- Basically missed the whole thing other than a couple minutes in the middle. Sigh. #
- Trying to get myself back to a nice calm level state before Obama comes out. Still in a stressed mode right now. Sigh! #
- Here we go. Obama movie. #
- Saw some comments earlier based on the released prepared remarks. #
- Really wish they wouldn’t release/leak such things in advance. #Spoilers #
- What I did see (just glanced at stuff in breaks at work, didn’t read much) sounded more like a State of the Union. I hope it really isn’t. #
- Here comes Michelle. #
- And here we go… #
- Watching by Slingbox means I’m like 30 seconds to a minute behind everybody on Twitter. Oops. #
- Obama kids cute. #
- He accepts! Shocker! I guess that makes it official. (Although the chair said he accepted last night.) #
- RT @mattyglesias In retrospect, pre-Inauguration Obama really was selling a lot of wishful thinking. #
- RT @Atrios RT @chucktodd: BTW, the Hillary for Biden rumors can now officially be put to rest. It is now too late //eye on the ball #
- Everybody is jumping up. The joke wasn’t that funny. #
- He is playing the adult grown up. #
- RT @chucktodd The “I need more time” portion of the speech. The “don’t change horses in midstream” argument every incumbent prez makes #
- Rally around a set of goals? Really? #
- They usually get better toward the end. RT @ericspiegelman So far this is the fourth or fifth best speech of the DNC. #
- But yeah -> RT @nickconfessore For all Obamas rep as a killer speechmaker this feels underwhelming compared to Michelle Obama Biden Clinton. #
- RT @owillis this guy seems to love america and is nothing like the scary black dude on fox. #
- RT @jeffjarvis “I fixed their fuckups.” I wish that were his message. That was Clinton’s message about him. #
- This *is* getting SotUish. List of policy initiatives that are pie in the sky. Isn’t exciting or inspiring. Guess we needed Bill for that. #
- RT @anamariecox I think Michelle wears the inspiring pants in the family these days. #pantsstatus #
- My twitter feed moving much more slowly during this than Michelle or Bill. #
- Most will only see Obama though. RT @AriMelber Obama is all about the future here – Biden handled the history brief. #
- Obama needed to handle both past and future. Ah, some of that now… #
- RT @davidfrum Clinton talked to moderates, Biden to independents, Obama to the Democratic base. #
- Literally. RT @natsecHeather It appears that Biden speech fried my laptop. Literally. #
- RT @mattyglesias This cautious speech makes me think tomorrow’s jobs number is pretty good. Remember Obama’s seen it. #
- Of course he is. RT @mattyglesias This is the speech you give when you think you’re winning and just want to avoid screwing up. #
- Alex just joined me. Quiet so far. #
- Got a few Romney hits in over the last couple minutes. Nothing super memorable. #
- Call out to arithmetic line just reminds how much better Clinton did it. #
- Yup! RT @rebliv @abulsme you’re bitchy #
- Alex back with mom after started getting more distracting. #
- I miss 2008 Obama. #
- I miss 2004 Obama even more. #
- MT @drskyskull Hope that by 2016 campaign focus on algebra and maybe, in 2020 we can have a calculus Presidential campaign. #DNC2012 #
- MT @JudgeJimGrayVP Obama didn’t keep the promises he made in 2008. Who’s to say he’ll keep the promises he’s making in 2012? #DNC2012 #
- MT @natsecHeather Rec foam bricks 4 throwing at tv. They help kid dad RT @abulsme Alex back with mom after started getting more distracting. #
- @natsecHeather I will try that for the debates. :-) #
- .@natsecHeather I will try that for the debates. :-) #
- RT @anamariecox YOU DID THAT = “Oh, hai. We’ll take that ‘You didn’t build that” joke from you now. See you in November.” #dnc12 #
- Now starting to come together. Time to bring it home? #
- Hitting 11 Eastern. #
- False alarm. Not getting exciting yet. #
- I understand trying to do the sober, “Now I’m President, I am serious” thing, but… pump it up just a little more? #
- Alex just ran into the office and is holding the door to keep Mommy from taking him back out again. #
- Here is the crescendo. #
- And that’s a wrap. #
- Stronger close, but this was not his best work by a long shot. But it didn’t need to be. #
- Here comes the family. Bidens next. #
- MT @DouthatNYT Thought people who talked about Clinton overshadowing Obama were just looking for Clinton drama. But they were so, so right. #
- Miss the balloons. #
- Everybody saying this was safe speech you give when you are winning. They are right. And he is in a very strong position. #
- But it would have been nice to see him try to hit a home run anyway. #
- RT @ericspiegelman I mean, I guess if you go up 15 runs by the 6th inning, you can rely on the bench for the rest of the game. #
- And all off the stage. Time for the closing stuff. #
- Some random delegate crying. Uh, OK. #
- MT @zidaya @abulsme @JudgeJimGrayVP Srsly? He just ran through the list…healthcare, Iraq, car industry, DADT, Lilly Ledbetter, etc… #
- .@zidaya Indeed. Has gotten quite a lot done. Missed on some other things. IE: Civil Liberties. Depends which are most important to you. #
- No Obama promise to fix that! MT @BuzzFeedAndrew Seriously, AP, you’re going to put a copyright claim on my YouTube video I got from C-SPAN? #
- RT @gov A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobama drives 52,757 Tweets per minute. Over 9 million Tweets sent about #DNC2012 #
- Odd overall tweet rate higher, but tweets of those I follow slower tonight. #
- Bring back the purple! RT @jimacostacnn Both conventions are over and one thing clear… We are back to being red states and blue states. #
- Benediction over. TIme for the gavel. #
- RT @BDayspring Was there a single new reason to vote for President Obama in tonight’s speech if you weren’t already? #
- Gavel time! #
- Time to go lavish attention on my son. :-) #
- MT @zidaya: @abulsme I’ve been having this conv w/oth who are disappointed: U can say he hasn’t done enuf, but don’t say he has done nothing #
- .@zidaya Never have said he did nothing. Never will. Lots done. Some I like, some I don’t. About what I expected when I voted 4 him though. #
- @zidaya thanks, I will. :-) #
- RT @BDayspring: SAVING AMERICA?!!?!? hahahaha. RT @zidaya: .@abulsme g Hope, not fear; details, not lies, saving America, #
- RT @zidaya .@abulsme @BDayspring Hope, not fear; details, not lies, saving America, not saving taxes for rich. #
- Wish I’d managed to actually not be distracted through most of Biden’s speech. Consensus seems to be it was better than Obama’s. #
- RT @zidaya: .@abulsme @BDayspring What do you remember was happening in fall 2008-2009? Anything at all? Those who ignore history… #
- .@zidaya @bdayspring In case confusion of my retweets for advocacy, personally: http://t.co/oNFAG9VD and my analysis: http://t.co/1YFE4lIJ #
- RT @zidaya @abulsme I think I was speaking to @judgejimgrayvp ‘s comment that Obama didn’t keep his promises; that annoys the h* out of me. #
- .@zidaya Record is mixed on promises too. He tried on most though. Often where he failed it was straight out R obstruction that stopped him. #
- @zidaya @hominidviews Cool. Glad you like it! Takes a bunch of work. Good to know when people actually read it. :-) #
- @zidaya Don’t know that I will. For me it is Obama vs Johnson and I am not fully decided yet. This week moves me toward Obama though. #
- @zidaya The Libs are often kind of out there and detached from reality. Johnson is a bit more moderate I think, which is important to me. #
- @zidaya I need to spend some more time researching him though. Know a lot less about him and his position than Obama or Romney. #
- @zidaya If I find too much of the absolutist Libertarian dogma, I’ll be done with him. What I would like best is a Lib leaning moderate. #
- @zidaya It absolutely should be. Very sad that it isnt. Should be uncontroversial pos in all parties for that matter. Seems fundamental. #
- @zidaya @gerrycanavan Heh. Indeed. 1 can hope O will be more free in a 2nd term & be better. But suspect often he already is where he wants. #
- MT @zidaya @abulsme @gerrycanavan My hope is withdrawal from Afg leads better results+no reelect means can think about legacy #hope change #
- .@zidaya @gerrycanavan That would be nice. :-) Will still have obstructionist R’s in congress though. (Probably) #
- MT @zidaya: @abulsme @gerrycanavan But on FP + civil rights, that’s all on Obama. Real hope is Supreme Court (Ginsburg + Breyer + Kennedy) #
- .@zidaya @gerrycanavan Not much disagreement there. :-) #
- RT @zidaya .@abulsme @gerrycanavan +if O is reelected, O’care goes into full effect+he will have leverage in ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations. #
- .@zidaya @gerrycanavan Not sure how well leverage will work. We’ll see. Of course, falling off cliff might actually be good in some ways. #
- .@zidaya @gerrycanavan Sets new baseline. Both sides could then “lower taxes” to get where they really want to be, etc. #
- Oh, I complained earlier about missing Biden. Did listen to Kerry in car on way home though. Better than I remember from 2004. #
- Watching second half of Biden on repeat. Liking it. #
- MT @wilw: @ggreenwald I loved Kerry’s passion, wish he’d had that in 2004, but wish wasn’t so focused on how TOTALLY AWESOME wars are. Sigh. #
- Reading – Obama’s Speech: Blog Reax II (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/thAiVtiJ #
- Reading – Simply Put (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/drFUr5cC #
- Reading – Stat-urday: Lombardo’s Quadratic Molasses (Sam Wang) http://t.co/F0595Bwq #
- Reading – E-Book Prices Should Start Dropping Soon (Leslie Horn) http://t.co/jNJU29Mj #
- Reading – NASA Satellite Captures First Glimpse of Curiosity’s Tracks From Martian Orbit (Rebecca J. Rosen) http://t.co/ay3wQpPK #
- Reading – Quote of the Day: How Does John Kerry Even Know Sarah Palin’s Name? (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/FIhyjPx5 #
- Reading – Amazon confirms: yes, you can opt out of ads on new Kindle Fire models (Jon Fingas) http://t.co/X8d7xAP2 #
- Reading – Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in August (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/AVZBGVE7 #
- BTW, Polls in my models updated for today. New poll in NJ. No change in status. #
- Reading – The Electoral College Map (9/7/12) [Josh Putnam] http://t.co/3N2OPz2A #
- MT @LOLGOP: Fun Fact: Joe Biden is the only American Vice President in the last eleven years who hasn’t shot a friend in a face. #