Al is on fire!!!!

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

[Booster]

1. I don't think Bush will get even one black vote

after Al gets through with him. Go, Al, Go!!!

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

3. "Our vote is not for sale!!!"

[Bluzmann57]

2. Never liked Sharpton

until now. Go get 'em Al!

[CaTeacher]

4. I would LOVE

for Al Sharpton to get the Democratic nomination to run for president--he would be the BEST! What an orator! What a debater!

[JPJones]

8. In what sense did he not run for pres this year? nt

[belle]

31. He definitely has his moments.

[Guava Jelly]

5. I am crying like a Biatch

man hes good

[father_twilight]

6. al is great

we will ride this donkey all the way !!!

we didn't get 40 acres, we've been getting mules !!!

[Mandate My Ass]

7. Rev Al brought down the house

I have no words except....:yourock:

[NewJerseyDem]

9. He used up way too much time!

He was only given 6 minutes and he spoke for 20 minutes. He really doesn't have the right to just steal the convention for his speech and force everyone else to limit theirs. Now, the speakers after him won't be able to speak for as long as they were expected to. That just isn't right.

[Cheswick2.0]

10. He could have spoken all night and closed the convention

for all I care.

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

11. agreed

n/t

[wildeyed]

17. Yup.

I was chanting sharpton, sharpton and stomping the floor. He could have gone on all night, I would have been happy.

[Window]

19. You've got that right!

.

[bowens43]

12. Not only was it right , it was exactly what we needed.

We need fire. We need passion. Al Sharpton has both.

[Cha]

13. You have got to be kidding!!

[NewJerseyDem]

14. No, I'm not

It was a selfish thing to do.

[DrWeird]

21. You don't care for Sharpton much, do you?

I see you didn't care for the national anthem either.

Am I sensing a theme?

[NewJerseyDem]

28. Not really

He isn't my favorite person in the world and the fact that he decided he felt like speaking for as long a he wants shows just more why I don't really like him.

My national anthem thing didn't say I didn't like the national anthem. I just said that I thought the waving the arms thing looked weird. I don't think it was disrespectful; it just looked odd. And I also said that I prefer when the national anthem is sung in the traditional way. I don't see why that is such a bad thing.

[hippywife]

38. It wasn't the national anthem,

it was America the Beautiful as sung by Ray Charles. And, yep, I too could have listened to him all night. As a matter of fact, I am listening to an MP# of him again as I type this. He was a breath of fresh air in this convention!! The adrenaline it needed!

Al definitely rocked!!

If you're talking about the National Anthem sung at the beginning of the evening, it was great!! And it should evoke people to emotional response.

[shraby]

45. They'll make up the time

in some way without shorting the speakers. I wouldn't worry about it. He was absolutely great and well worth the extra time.

[joanne]

15. Candy just told him he was "off message"

Yeah right.... :crazy:

[DrWeird]

16. Absolutely.

I say we marginalize all of our eloquent minority speakers. That will bring out the vote!

[NewJerseyDem]

22. I know, they really marginalized Barack Obama n/t

[Solly Mack]

18. People are starved for words of truth and passion

you saw the crowd...Al was what they wanted.

[Renew Deal]

20. I don't think it was so bad.

They had his speech. Didn't they know how long it was going to be?

[NewJerseyDem]

24. He didn't go by his script

The people on CNN (Jeff Greenfield, I think) said he saw how the people operating the teleprompter were trying to figure out where he was in the speech and kept changing where the teleprompter was in the speech. He definitely did not go along the script as planned or at least he extended it in many places.

[DrWeird]

26. Oh, well if you saw it on CNN...

then that must be exactly how it happened.

[NewJerseyDem]

27. OK, so NPR said it as well

It was very clear. The Democrats running the Convention aren't so stupid that when they see a 20 minute speech they think that it will take only 6 minutes. He obviously didn't follow the teleprompter.

[DrWeird]

29. Why that uppity rabble-rouser!

How dare he!

[Solly Mack]

30. Boy, watching the Oscars must really get your undies in a knot

if a speech running over time bothers you

who cares if he went over? The crowd wanted it. The crowd needed it...and that should tell people a little something about what's been missing :) (RED MEAT)

[NewJerseyDem]

32. Well, I do think that the winners at the Oscars are often selfish

However, I don't really care about the Oscars so it doesn't bother me. I do care about the Democratic National Convention. And I think that all those chosen to speak should have the ability to speak for their time alloted. Other speakers may not be able to speak for as long because of Sharpton. That is wrong. It is just a selfish thing to do.

[Solly Mack]

33. Ever heard of the sock in the floor theory?

where you complain about the sock being in the floor but there's really a deeper issue not being touched on... and the sock just serves as an excuse to vent?

well :)

[NewJerseyDem]

34. And what is that suppose to mean? n/t

[Solly Mack]

36. Oh, I think you take my meaning

:)

[Donkeyboy75]

25. I don't think so. I just heard reports on NPR that he was clearly off of

his teleprompter.

[Misunderestimator]

35. What? Are you nuts? That was a great speech!

All for one and one for all, I say.

[Generator]

23. Of course, I loved him

Thank God the Dems aren't all lilly white and button downed.

WE should take on Shrubscum. That's the point isn't it?

[theboss]

37. I still can't believe Al Sharpton is speaking at a convention

At least he didn't call anyone a "bloodsucker."

Couldn't they have put him on at 4:30 or something?

[hippywife]

39. He's given the best speech

of the whole convention so far!! He should be on primetime!!

[theboss]

40. He should be in prison

But that's just one man's opinion.

[AngryLizard]

43. For what?

Exactly? And what does that have to do with his speech?

[AngryLizard]

41. There was not a word he said that wasn't true

He laid out exactly why African Americans do and should continue to vote for Democrats. And it was something that needed to be said, because for all the black people that do vote, there are TONS that don't, thinking it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't matter, no one ever cares about them. He was speaking not just to the convention, not just to the republicans, but to all those black people who believe that it doesn't make a difference. And he's going to get some of those votes, mark my words.

Yeah, he went over time -- but I'm watching CNN right now, and they don't seem to be much troubled by it.
The speech was necessary. It was needed. It was f'ing BRILLIANT.

But, of course, all the media can say is "Golly, that was sure off-message, wasn't it?" "Gee, wiz, that was EXTREME."

Ugh. Truth hurts, people.

[bpilgrim]

42. Al Sharpton: Read My Lips --------------------------------- mp3

http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/dem_convention_2004/al_sharpton.mp3

peace

[gottaB]

44. wonderful! thanks

[peekaloo]

46. "riding that donkey as far as it'll take us"

Reverend Al rocked the house.

Gag on that Boo$h!

[wish_I_could_vote]

47. don't forget

the networks are not televising the entire evening. If one speaker goes way beyond their alloted time, then they risk knocking Edwards out of prime time.

[gottaB]

48. Ray Charles never saw any purple mountains

That was a brilliant closing, and it was stronger for Sharpton having gone off script. It all fit together, from Crispus Attucks to the fight for emancipation, civil rights and justice. A great endorsement for Kerry.

[IronLionZion]

49. I don't like Al Sharpton but...

damn, can he speak!

[gottaB]

50. "We decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us"

"Mr. President, I heard you say Friday that you had questions for voters, particularly African American voters. And you asked the question did the Democratic Party take us for granted.

Well, I have raised questions. But let me answer your question.

You said that the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and Frederick Douglas. It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations started. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres.

We didn't get the mule.

So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."