The message was on stickers throughout the hall in the city
of Brotherly Love. “Love Trumps Hate.” Take that law and order president.
It was almost like a Steven Spielberg movie.
A series of speakers, including Michelle Obama and Bernie
Sanders himself, explained why the former reality show host had ripped off
people he worked without building towers which later went bankrupt.
If hearing it from Sanders himself, TV star Sarah Silverman,
a Bernie supporter from day one, told those refusing to join the Hillary
Clinton bandwagon “you’re being ridiculous.”
Sanders said no one was more disappointed than he was, and
he knew he had not been treated fairly, but election of Donald Trump would
destroy the country.
Many did not buy it and shouted boos or even taped SILENCE
signs over their mouths. Sanders endured
booing on several occasions, no longer with the Secret Service to protect him.
Ironically, Clinton carried California by 438,000 votes.
No one in his right mind can believe that whatever dirty
tricks the Democratic National Committee pulled, revealed in detail by Russia’s
Putin and Wikileaks, Clinton stole California. The FBI is investigating alleged
ties between Trump and Putin. Even right-wing media took offense.
Speaker after speaker Monday talked about the millions who
lost their houses and thousands who lost their loves because of the recession
and wars created by President George W. Bush.
Even this Tuesday morning media pundits were trying to keep
the feud alive. Several networks sought out people who hated Clinton knowing
they would not support Hillary.
Ironically, nothing that was hacked two days before the
convention began, was new. Sanders himself said Wikileaks didn’t say anything
he had not already said.
Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democratic Party in the House,
hinted on MSNBC this morning that many of the people on the street criticizing
Hillary were being paid by Putin.
Putin had accused Hillary of interfering in his last
election.
But none of the speakers Monday day came close to
approaching the elegance of First Lady Michelle Obama, much beloved across
party lines.
This “is the story of this country, the story that has
brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt
the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who
kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I
wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my
daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their
dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and
all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president
of the United
States.
“So, look, so don’t let anyone ever tell you that this
country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this
right now is the greatest country on earth! And as my daughters prepare to set
out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who
is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be
guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all
have for our children.”
Speakers joked her speech was so strong it would be used in
the next Republican convention, much as a previous Obama speech was used by
Trump’s wife, Melania, in the Republican convention.
Tuesday night will be another where love is the issue. The
love of mothers whose children who died in gun massacres. The Republican party
and the NRA have consistently fought any effective gun control laws.
They claim none would stop all shootings. Imagine if we
eliminated laws against burglaries or bank robberies because some times the bad
guys get away.
That is the Trump mantra: Every man, hopefully carrying a
gun, for himself.
Military and intelligence leaders find Trump’s closes ties
with Putin terrifying. He is getting intel briefings, and he won’t have to use
Wikileaks to pass on the information he gets.
Trump’s funding threats to NATO are being cheered in Moscow.
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