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Patch Blog: Women Rule the DNC

Dispatch from the first day of the convention.

I am writing this from the Time Warner Center in Charlotte during the the first day of the Democratic National Convention. Because I am an alternate delegate I am not on the convention floor and will not be there unless the designated delegate cannot perform her duties.

That being said, I'm happily ensconced in the upper seating area where I have a great view of the stage and the jumbo screens where we watch most of the action anyway.

I am seated near some foreign press and across the arena are the major news stations like MSNBC, Fox, ABC, Telemundo and others. The night is still young, but there have already been many stirring moments.

Right now is the tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy, which is a definite crowd pleaser, particularly the debates with Kennedy and a then-pro-choice Romney, whom Kennedy called "multiple choice."

Women's issues and healthcare are at the forefront so far, as are LGBT issues. This makes me proud to be a Democrat. P

articularly powerful was Rep. Carolyn Maloney's chant "Where are the women?" Women will be the force to reckon with in this election. More to come later, but right now I'm rocking to Ledisi.

Gayle M. Montgomery September 16, 2012 at 02:10 am
The other controversy at the DNC had to do with the naming of Jerusalem. The Christian Science Monitor nicely describes some of the reasons why the Democrats were reticent to do so http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0905/Jerusalem-Why-Israelis-and-Palestinians-Democrats-and-Republicans-fight-over-it
Gayle M. Montgomery September 16, 2012 at 02:14 am
And if you want to know what the Founding Fathers really thought, here is an assemblage of some of their quotes which are great eye openers since so many superimpose their own words into the mouths of those who created the documents that forged our nation. http://www.cancertutor.com/Quotes/Quotes_Presidents.html
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 01:06 am
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2012/09/21/americans-are-sick-of-medias-pro-obama-bias?s_cid=related-links:TOP
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 01:12 am
Hi Gayle, I had not looked at this thread for a while but now that I have I noticed your reference to Buddhist, Shinto and Native American as religions. No one seems to object to the word "God" in reference to a Higher Power except Muslims and Atheists. Native American is not a religion but a generic term used to define the indigenous people of this land whose pagan beliefs were pretty much eradicated by Catholic missionaries.
No disrespect intended (since you are my elder). I think the Democrats made a terrible mistake with that and now I'm hearing a lot of black ministers are urging their congregations to not vote Democrat because of the gay marriage issue AND the disrespect toward the Creator.
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 01:16 am
From your quotes
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams The vain and aspiring man.......Barack Obama
Buzlightyear aka marty September 23, 2012 at 02:07 am
Hey margeaux,
In ref. to the liberal media. A fish doen't know its wet. No one ever succeeds in telling a liberal that the main stream media is left. Put a friendly dog and a cat in a room together. The cat might rub up against the dog for affection. But the dog is not cool with that. The dog might pounce his front paws on the ground and bark for the signal to play. The cat is freaked out and runs away. Now that was the friendly ones. Same space---two different worlds. Hi Gayle, if you are there. This is not directed at you. I tried to send you a note twice, but it won't go through. Its still reads pending after many days. Marty
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:24 am
Breaking news:
923 Executive Orders in 40 months.. ....THIS IS NOT FUNNY, AND IF YOU VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN, YOU CAN EXPECT MORE! Remember what he told Russia's Putin!!!!! THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Obama has signed 923 Executive Orders in 40 months! What did Congress do in those 40 months? (The House - considerable. The Senate -nothing, not even a budget nor allowing any House bill to be considered.) A whole new order must prevail in Washington, DC as a result of this next election!
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:30 am
Hiya Marty, You're funny. I read you offered her a hug or some such thing. LOL
I posted the 923 Exec. orders thing that was on another site. I'm so lucky my parents raised me a patriot. To think so many people think that guy is Jesus-come-to-America is amazing. He's supported by the Black Panthers, for G*d's sake. I'm a 25 year old multi-racial girl and I sure don't feel there's any war on women going on if someone wants me to buy my own birth control pills. What a load of....TTYL
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:36 am
TRT; If you don't like the Reps and we all know the Dems are on fast track to destroying America's dream..........have you looked into the Libertarian Party? Although, their biggest guy just jumped to Rep. to support Mitt. We don't need another Ross Perot thing now, do we?
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:45 am
Oh pleeeeeez Gayle, Clinton is a womanizer/adulterer who was impeached, Ted Kennedy was a murderer and the Kennedy family made their money on booze.
From what I've read of Ms. Hale's postings, she's not a fool like the people who think the guy who was having "not sex" and "not inhaling" while putting the housing crash into motion is credible.
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:50 am
Surely you are being sarcastic.
Margeaux Rox September 23, 2012 at 02:55 am
Here you go, Gayle. Here's who votes for your guy. From Howard Stern to Monrovia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJbOU4nmHQ
Buzlightyear aka marty September 23, 2012 at 04:01 am
@margeaux,
The hug thing.... Look I am totally speculating here. It is easy to have an impression of people you blog with, without ever meeting. I envision Gayle as someone who breathes people through her soul. (thats a good thing if its unclear.) As for my upbringing.....everyone around me growing up ....liberal. It was a whole journey back and forth before I settled to what used to be called a moderate conservative. I still am a moderate, but the label placed on me has changed to an extremest who has a war on everyone. Sometimes I like to watch MSNBC to get my daily list of how evil I am, and who I have a war on. As of Friday the left hemisphere of my brain has a war with my y chromosomes. My Y chromosomes want to abort every new cell thats not convenient, and keep the ones that have a deadly virus, because "it's humane".The red and white blood cells are getting along, even though my vocal cords keep screaming war! "They hate you" ! OMG !!! Thanks MSNBC. I hate myself!
Gayle M. Montgomery September 23, 2012 at 04:05 am
Ok, Marty, I'll look to my inbox and see if maybe it's there after I finish this post. I was off to a niece's bridal shower most of the day. It was hotter than blazes. If only I knew I were wet (smile). Hope you're doing well, Marty!
Gayle M. Montgomery September 23, 2012 at 04:08 am
Hey, Marty, I looked and didn't find anything there. So sorry. Wish there were a way to get the message, but given the crowd, I don't see that's an option. Let me know if you figure out some way to get the message through. Interested in what you had to say.
Gayle M. Montgomery September 23, 2012 at 04:17 am
Margeaux, I'm not going to respond to most of the comments you posted today. You've crawled back through the Patch seemingly looking for fresh meat. This thread has digressed greatly from where it started. But there are also holes in the thread, things that were excised. I cannot remember whether it was this thread or another, but there were some pretty vile remarks made that were redacted by the poster. Marty stepped up to give me a hug because they were just that ugly. It was an act of kindness. If you need to now about my love life, Margeaux so as to determine the validity of some poster's position or if someone wants to be kind, and you have a problem with that, it tells more about you than me. I am the mother of mixed race children. We've covered that Friday. You seem to need to bring up your own racial identity so as to disavow a position. You are accepted or rejected, at least by me, not on the basis of your racial composite, but the content of your character and how you interact. Today, I would call you Snarkette again. Decide where you want to sit. But bug men who are kind to me or agree with me, Chick Pea, and it's on to the break of dawn, no matter age, melanin, whatever. Those men don't deserve to be berated because they do not agree with you. That's Right Wing bullypulpit technique. You have a long road to hoe in life. I suggest you figure out how to interact now without the folderol.
Gayle M. Montgomery September 23, 2012 at 04:19 am
And Marty, thank you for your kind words yet again. I think if I understand you correctly you're about spot on. Have a good evening, Marty, or morning as the case may be. An extended family reunion tomorrow with family we had lost touch but reconnected through Facebook will largely keep me away tomorrow. Too hot to pull the iPad out (got a heat warning the other day). Going to be a fun day. Hope you take the time to do something fun for yourself, and enjoy the heat because, now that fall is upon us, could the rain be too far away?
Gayle M. Montgomery September 23, 2012 at 04:28 am
But, Margeaux, I am going to address your comments about the DNC Platform. First, from your positions, I believe you are not a Democrat. It is not your platform. Why is it important to you? The subject was settled and signed a couple of weeks ago. As for those in African American churches being urged to disavow a relationship with the President because of the gay marriage thing, that, my dear is a sham. There are plenty from that specific community of which my husband was one, and his family was integral in the forming of one of the principal churches in Monrovia to serve that audience, who are quick to condemn gays and yet creep and are on "the down low," having a wife but actually living a gay lifestyle. So they may get some support from the constituency, but you won't know what happens in the ballot box. And of course a man of God is going to have a problem with God's name not in the platform. That is how the man derives his paycheck. But don't go there. Before you step off, know you are talking to a former Sunday School teacher for 8 of 10 consecutive years. I do know a little sumpin' sumpin' about God.
Bobby September 23, 2012 at 04:07 pm
Their platform is exactly what I would design if I wanted to create a replica of the USSR in America. I know a "lil sumpin'" about God too and I can assure you if you know God's Word that any unrepentant pro-abortionist has no better eternal future than Adolph Hitler. Our God is the same God, Jesus Christ, is the SAME God the Inspired the Old Testament that called for homosexuals to be executed. Its a heinous sin. God is willing to forgive those that repent though. The Book of Romans in the NT affirms it. None of our founding fathers saw fit to kick God out of government or public life and the Democrats have nothing in common with Madison or even Paine in that regard and I'm ready to prove it NOW.
Holly Hale September 23, 2012 at 04:32 pm
Here's a link to the Democratic platform for anyone who wishes to read it in detail.
http://www.democrats.org/democratic-national-platform And the Republican one. http://whitehouse12.com/republican-party-platform/ When you read them both, you will notice a difference in how each is written. Decide for yourself which is written more professionally and states its party's beliefs without commentary on the other party. This should clear up any questions about who believes what, stands for what, etc.
Geo September 23, 2012 at 04:44 pm
Holly Hale, thanks for posting the links. Gonna read 'em both.
Bobby September 23, 2012 at 04:50 pm
Jeremiah 1:5 : "BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB. I KNEW YOU". Are you pro-abortion? In God's eyes you might as well be blowing up schoolbuses of elementary school children. Does that anger you? GOOD. Because no matter how much you hate that truth or wish it were not so it IS so.
Bobby September 23, 2012 at 04:54 pm
How about the Democrat's pro-Muslim stance? The Koran calls for homosexuals to be executed and many Muslim countries are doing so today. They sacrificed Christopher Stevens life putting an openly gay man in a country where its a capital crime. Obama missed that intel briefing. Who woulda thought that Islam would plan attacks on 9-11 just because they have every year since 2001? I'm thinking if Obama is re-elected you might look real good in your burka Gayle. Lol.
Geo September 23, 2012 at 05:29 pm
Read 'em both and this Libertarian is going to vote Rep. this time. Voting for Obama last time was a major fail on my part. Sorry America.
Holly Hale September 24, 2012 at 12:46 am
@Bobby
You mentioned Hillary and Bill. If I were her in the national spotlight and my old man as caught red handed cheating. I'd be won ticked lady. That seems to be it's own brand of war on women.
Buzlightyear aka marty September 24, 2012 at 02:21 am
Margeaux
What happened? I was beginning to enjoy You and Gayle back and forth.
Gayle M. Montgomery September 24, 2012 at 02:41 am
Bobby, you're just a little too close to the edge of the cliff for me to even play with. I could respond to your inanities, but it would just continue to crank you further. I could hand you a roll of tin foil to wrap around your home so they can't hear you and won't come get you. Seriously, Dude, i think you live to fight and got bored figuring I was going to be your target. Back up, Jack. You've already proven you're just this side of delusional, and not very far. Done with your silliness.
Gayle M. Montgomery September 24, 2012 at 02:44 am
Good evening, Marty. Hope you had a good day. Very long one on this end with another family party (the second in two days). This one was in a lovely park in Yorba Linda, but the heat was taxing. Too tired to play the game with Margeaux. She has gotten a degree but needs a little more education in the school of life. There may be hope for her, but she's not going to be my pet project any time soon. Have a great week, Marty.
Buzlightyear aka marty September 24, 2012 at 02:49 am
HEY GAYLE
We can love each other.........and....... Our politics may be a bit ( or a lot) different and someday we will have to tussle the political points again. We are both adults and know how to hit as well as take it without taking the ball and going home. Marty
Gayle M. Montgomery September 24, 2012 at 03:45 am
Marty, I think what makes us able to interact in the manner we do on this list is that we realize we are neighbors and Americans. We both want what's best for America. We just have slightly different versions (sometimes bigger than slightly, perhaps) as to how that happens. It doesn't make us enemies, and i rather think that, if we work together in dialogue we have a much greater chance of advancing our nation than if we persistently have this civil war environment we have experienced. It is quite simply not healthy.

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