Democratic National Convention: Anxious Energy Over Showing A Strong Obama

The Democratic National Convention opens today in Denver. The New York Times describes the atmosphere as filled with "nervous" energy over Obama's prospects against John McCain. Go to HuffPost's DNC big news page AND HuffPost's politics page for all the info out there on the Convention.

Democrats gathering here for their nominating convention are significantly more nervous about Senator Barack Obama's prospects this fall than they were a month ago, and are urging him to use the next four days to address weaknesses in his candidacy and lingering party divisions from the primary fight.

Mr. Obama's aides said they had learned from what they described as the mistake of the 2004 Democratic convention -- when aides to Senator John Kerry's campaign sought to forbid convention speakers from going after President Bush -- and would use their time to draw contrasts with Senator John McCain, particularly on the economy and his opposition to abortion rights.

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[pupbayer]

Maybe tomorrow. They've shown nothing tonight.

[noamjunior]

WRONG
Michelle Obama showed herself as an articulate strong woman with positive values and who will make America proud as the next first Lady

[CitizenInformed]

Problem is, it's not just McCain who Obama is up against. Obama has to deal with the Clintons. It's crazy to rely on his two "opponents" to deliver the message he needs delivered at this convention. To give both of them prime speaking spots just doesn't make sense to me. The Dems are in denial of the Clinton "problem".

[nick1936]

Boy were you wrong about the Clinton's. Stop drinking the Repuk kool Aid on the Clinton's

[Nofuzzydreams]

Biden was chosen - polls tied. Goodbye O'bama. You will be spared feeling proud for the first time.

[jsinclair]

Polling was prior to the VP announcement.

You want to see an Obama bump? Just wait until after the GOP convention with all the inspiration that Bush and Cheney and McCain and their corporate buddies will bring.

[NATO91]

Back in the real world, when Obama rolls into the White House, you will be spared feeling snarky and self-righteous. It will be painful for you. You'll have to recalibrate your thinking. I wish you luck, as you don't seem equipped to deal with the facts.

Your support for the psychopathy of the Bush/ McCain paradigm will leave you a sad and deeply lonely person, profoundly deserved.

[kcam44]

and heavily medicated

[afed27]

And what happens if Obama does not show any strength or if there should be no strength in his numbers?

[wdw101]

he doesn't get elected

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

McBush's own dismal record on veteran's issues will haunt him.

McCain Refused to Support Sen. Jim Webb"s and Chuck Hagel"s new GI Bill.

In February 2006, McCain voted against an amendment that would have provided for at least $19 billion for military health facilities, paid for by eliminating tax cuts for the wealthiest earners.

McCain voted against a 2006 Democratic amendment that would have provided $2.8 billion to increase veterans" medical care..
McCain Voted Against Establishing $1 Billion Trust Fund to Provide Improvements to Military and Veterans" Health Facilities

McCain Chooses Corporations Over Veterans, Voting Against Adding $1.5 billion to Veterans" Medical Services in 2007 Budget by Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes

McCain Voted Against Mandatory Funding of $6.9 Billion in 2007 Budget and $104 Billion Over Five Years for Veterans' Health Care.

McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments.

McCain one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430 million for Medical Services for the Department of Veteran Affairs for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

McCain voted against an amendment offered by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322 million for safety equipment for troops in Iraq.

McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650 million.

McCain supported the interests of the DAV 20 percent in 2006.
McCain supported the interests of the DAV 25 percent in 2005.
In 2006 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America gave Senator McCain a grade of D.

[WLA]

Why does McBush hate the troops?

The troops that are donating 6:1 for O'bama.

[buckygreen]

Thats probably why the troops are donating to 0bama over Mc I n s a n e by a 6-1 margin.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-14-military-donations_N.htm

[TMAN]

Wow, thats positive, why oh why arent we hearing any of this kind of data on the MSM?

[wdw101]

I'm ok with that

[swooge]

Does anyone get Rolling Stone magazine? EXCELLENT article about "W" and the Repooplicons.

[donaldw6]

Is this it? http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/22665562

[Chillinout]

Great article, thanks.

Bookmarked it for later use. :-)

[donaldw6]

Turns out the online article is just the first three pages. You still need to buy the magazine.

[Chillinout]

A couple of questions for the Republitrolls:

If McCainasaurus is such a great candidate, then why are most of the Repugs up for reelection this year NOT attending the Rupug convention?

And why are there 4 Congressman running on a change platform where they tout how well they have worked with O'bama? This is unprecedented. Never before have either Dems or Repugs touted the other party's nominee as a reason for voting for them.

Face it: Even Repugs hate the Repugs.

[Gordon]

some dems did it in the 80s with raygun

[1NacreousImprimatur]

THIS JUST IN:

0-bama unveils plan to use "Anxious Energy" to solve the energy crisis, dem delegates line up to be milked of their "Anxious Energy" which will power their planes trains and automobiles on the trip home from Denver.....

Worl in Awe at Quick Thinking 0-bama man's plan......

[ThunderclapNewman]

More lies.
More pompous gasbaggery.

[Ndw]

And there's also something really creepy about that poster. Something 'icky' beneath the surface. I wish the Huff Post would allow an 'ignore user' feature! That would dent the creepier trolls presence.

[buckygreen]

Nothing quite so pathetic as an idiot repuglotroll that for some reason thinks its clever.

See above.

[swooge]

"anxious" Repooplicons are lining up to do the milking.

Of course, you have to go to the Minneapolis airport bathroom for the procedure.

heh...

[Chillinout]

Seriously, you should go back to wearing your helmet. Obviously all the head banging against the wall has damaged the three brain cells you have left.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

You lied about McBush's dismal record on veteran's issues what else are you going to lie about to get your man elected?

[ThunderclapNewman]

Vogie lies about everything.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

Here is what I find fascinating about Republicans. The Repubs swear they know how to fix the economy, but they nominated McCain, a guy who said he doesn’t understand the economy, over a successful CEO and former governor.

How stupid is that?

I guess that POW drawing crosses in s h i t will fix the economy.

Who knew?

[Chillinout]

In the Repug fantasy world, up is down, left is right, and inside is outside.

And being a POW trumps everything, including brains.

[lornejl]

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

The repub party in a nutshell.

[swooge]

Some of them are tapping
some of them want to be tapped
some of them are napping
all of them spew crap

[MichiganJFrog]

Can we add a verse about molesting congressional paiges and getting your d*aper changed by a hooker?

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

Wolfson is still snitching. That’s why Hillary lost the primary. There were too many snitches in her camp.

Even though Hillary is out of the race, Wolfson is still snitching.

Clintonites are the worst kind of Democrats.

[k6007]

Republicans?

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

Nope. Clintonites deserve their own party. They are terrible.

[Yugeen]

My McCain friends are saying that the RNC or one of the "swiftboat" groups is coming out with an ad taking quotes from James Cone's book; "A Black Theology of Liberation" and tying to them the Obama's because of them being at Rev Wright's church for 20 yrs.

[dentuso]

Expect over the next two months ads that connect O to baby seal hunting, and muggings of older white women.

With 65% of sub-40's being Dems, once the Repugs lose the WH, it's gone for twenty years.

Expect EVERYTHING and ANYTHING over the next 60 days.

Just keep telling the truth to as many people as humanly possible.

[MichiganJFrog]

That can be countered with a few choice Hagee quotes.

[buckygreen]

My oh my. The Apoplexy of the Trolls. Their fear is palpable. As agitated as their tiny pea brains are now, I can only imagine what they'll do on election night. Highly entertaining.

[WLA]

I know. I can't wait for "The Final Meltdown."

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

Now the general election begins. The Democrats have a new vision for America and a leader with the aid of an old warrior to get that vision enacted. While the Rethuglicans have zero, zilch, nothing, nada just the same old same old politics or personal destruction. McBush is 95% Bush or worse and if America would just wake up an get over it's personal biases Obama/Biden should be the ticket to take this country back to it's greatness. If not than this country is doomed to repeat the mistakes of it's recent history over and over again until we are a footnote in history and China and Russia get to right the next chapters in world history. We'll end up being a nation crushed by our own colonial ambitions and military excesses like the Soviet Union was in the late 80's.

[IntelligentDesign]

A high priority for Obama/Biden will be de-Bushification; a major cleansing is required to purge the likes of Monica Goodling - can't run a clean government with dirty players.