"The many stories in which ordinary Americans rise from adversity through hard work, decency, and service to others implicitly conflates those individual struggles with the struggles of the United States itself. Running through the stories told at the convention is the theme of working hard through a time of darkness to come out into the light."
"'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning,' speakers have quoted the Biblical psalm, and they have referred to the vision of the American flag still flying after a night of bombardment during the War of 1812, captured by Francis Scott Key in the national anthem, promising that after our time of national darkness, there will be light."
"The Democrats have made their points with the stories of individual Americans who have overcome dark hours in order to move forward. In that storytelling, individuals represent the nation itself."
“Here is how we do it. Strategize on Sunday, meet the moment on Monday, take it to ‘em on Tuesday, work it out on Wednesday, thank the Lord on Thursday, fight the power on Friday, set it off on Saturday, get a few hours of sleep, wake up the next day and do it all over again until joy, joy, joy comes in the morning."
~ Hakeem Jeffries, quoted by Emine Yücel, Kate Riga and Nicole Lafond
"My overarching impression of the third night of the convention is that the future of the Democratic Party was on display, and it was beautiful sight! ...
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are speaking directly to the American people at a pivot point in American history. The press may not like that fact, but there is nothing they can do to stop it."
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #media
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~ Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-future-of-the-democratic-part
"Well, I’ll take this over that Hulk Hogan freakshow.
Democrats have gathered in Chicago this week, a joyful, exuberant bear hug embrace of American political identity, patriotism, and above all, optimism. It has been a stark contrast with the American Carnage-style anger simmering at the Republican National Convention."
~ Brian Klaas
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
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https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/kamala-harris-and-the-perils-of-primaries
"THE BEST ARGUMENTS made for Kamala Harris’s election at the Democratic convention so far have come from the two biggest speakers who’ve never held political office. ...
Both did something that the first night’s speakers failed to truly accomplish: they painted a human portrait of Harris for an electorate still learning about her, then laid out the game plan for the sprint ahead."
~ Sam Stein
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #MichelleObama #DougEmhoff
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic-convention-2024-night-2-doug-emhoff-michelle-obama
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"Black women know more than anyone what it’s like to be dehumanized and reduced to parts of our whole. We have long been seen as mammies, mules, aesthetics, tokens, and superheroes, oftentimes simultaneously. If we are not in service to someone or something, our value is debated, our competence challenged."
~ Anna Gifty Opaku-Agyeman
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy #MichelleObama
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https://time.com/7013415/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-black-womanhood/
"What’s more, the obstacles faced by Black women daily are embedded into the structures and systems that line the pockets of the powerful. Despite our struggles being woven into the lives of everyone else, despite fighting for democracy time and time again, we are continually left behind.
Perhaps the Black woman who understands this most is Michelle Obama, a Black girl from the South Side of Chicago whose ordinary life led to extraordinary circumstances."
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"For years, Republicans lived in public terror that Michelle Obama would run for president. They used her name as a talisman to quell the jelly in their bellies, and then as the wick on the gaslight they used to gin up the rubes. Tuesday night’s speech showed definitively that the GOP was lowballing the risk of her getting involved in politics at this level. They don’t have anyone in her weight class, & now everybody knows it.
~ Charles Pierce
#DNC #MichelleObama
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61936835/michelle-barack-obama-dnc-speech/
'It’s Tim Walz night!
And Mayor Pete might!
And Bill Clinton night no exclamation point."
~ Evan Hurst
#DNC #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #future #hope #joy
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/live-tim-walz-steals-nomination-from
"In every way, she’s his antithesis. She was a prosecutor; he’s a convicted felon also indicted for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. She’s kept her ideals; he’s kept his cynicism. She wants an inclusive America; he wants an exclusive one. She uses the power of joy and hope in politics; he uses the power of fear and revenge."
~ Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-nomination-of-kamala-harris-for
"The only way to beat him is by playing an entirely different game — a game that draws on qualities that are the opposite of his, that appeals to those aspects of the American character diametrically opposed to his."
Joyce Vance features voices of two Republicans who spoke yesterday at the DNC about why they will not vote for Trump: Olivia Troye, former Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to v-pPence, said,
"Four years ago, I resigned from the Trump administration. As a Republican who dreamed of working in the White House, it was a hard decision."
"But as an American, it was the right one. I saw how Donald Trump undermined our intelligence community, military leaders, and, ultimately, our democratic process. Now, he's doing it again, lying and laying the groundwork to undermine this election."
And former Lieut-Gov of Georgia, Geoff Duncan:
"If Republicans are being intellectually honest with ourselves, our party is not civil or conservative. It's chaotic and crazy. And the only thing left to do is dump Trump."
#DNC #Republicans
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