Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick was one of the best speakers I have heard in a long long time, telling the democrats to stand up, grow some backbone. Answering the lie that Obama has done nothing he ran through a partial list saying we can't let him be bullied from office.
Now before Patrick, Lilly Ledbetter had the crowd in a froth over her womens wage battle and the Supreme Court, and before her a mother with a daughter who needs heart surgery next year had them in tears that Romney will repeal Obama care, they can't afford the surgery so it would never happen under the GOP, the girl may die untreated.
So after all that along comes San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, (top picture) beautiful black hair combed down, shiny blue tie, neat as a pin, his appearance couldn't have been more appealing to hispanics, blacks, at the same time so respectable it would appeal to any but the most racist white person. Castro can kill with the english language, he can send it into battle which he did attacking Romney as a guy so successful, so rich, he is totally out of touch with the American peoples needs and conditons. And if you saw his daughter watching next to her mother and grandmother and didn't think she was the most beautiful human in the world for those few minutes, then you are either off your meds or eating to many of them.
Then Michelle Obama's speech was a work of soft sell genius. She may be the best speech making female of our era. If you study rhetoric and language, it doesn't get much better than that unless you go back to Churchill or Lincoln, and the delivery and pace, the little pauses, well the President has a high fence to jump to match his wife, and her dress was beautiful and powerful. To wear a sleeveless dress and look good in it (you know about armpit age and wobbly upper arms) well it says youth, strength and health, it was one more nonverbal message in a night that was one of the best fast pace powerful political conventions I ever saw. And did you notice the audience, it looked like America, not the GOP's white only club.
I think the Dems are taking a lead-forward posture with Julian Castro and I like it!
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Ron
Ron, thanks, it was a good launch, all the GOP can do now is claim the dems platform doesn't use the word God, oh the shame of it. It does use the word faith, but not god, or dog if you look at it from the other way.
DeleteI loved that someone, forgot who said that Rmoneys money needed a passport since it was out of the country so much.