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Bases loaded tie game home run Tom, I particularly liked your closing. I may have to watch the roll call, I had no intention of watching it, I’ve been thrilled with the speeches. I gave up on trying to take notes on them, every sentence was worth a note, sometimes my mind would wander tripped up by something they said, so I just rewound a bit to where I was fully attentive. Wow, I listened closely to people I had never paid much attention too, and did I ever learn something, the depth of love for our nation is truly inspiring. The joy is going to carry us through the election and beyond, I think we have participated in and witnessed the birth of a world changing event. If we can unite this nation as patriots the world will want to emulate us, people will demand it of their leaders. As Steve Kerr suggested, if we can unite 333 million of us we will become the most powerful nation in history, with the power to do unlimited good for all mankind. People will be thanking us for generations if we pull this off, and I believe we can. I’m now starting to regret my soon to be 78 years, what’s about to happen has the potential to be as wonderful as maned flight was a little more than a hundred years ago, and then we put men on the moon. On that happy note good night all 🙏

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I’ve been feeling much the same, Dick, and I love how you noticed the speakers’ depth of love for our nation. I felt that too and it’s made me so proud.

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Time to wear our patriotism and goals for America on our sleeve and from our mouths with unabashed pride of ownership in freedom for all.

An attack on one freedom becomes an attack on all freedoms if we avoided the seriousness of the side wishing and acting to deny that freedom.

Protecting every freedom is the fight for all of us.

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By all means go and watch the roll call (words I never thought I would say). It's a hoot! Then look for a comparison with the GOP'S for a laugh.

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Jessica Craven gave a link to it. I watched the whole thing and was so glad I did. I might even go back and watch it again!

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The same for me. A new world in politics. I’m now going to watch the rollcall. Kamala’s voice, smile, energy and vision are what we need. The times they are a changin’.

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Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a book, It's Up to the Women. Well, it is indeed, but we need everyone to stand up now. Everyone.

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Do watch it if you haven’t already. The release of all that tension from 2016 forward is infectious. Even if the format is every bit as cheesy as you thought it would be.

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Amen, Brother, Amen!!

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it's precisely that love which made the conventions so different. the other guys don't really like it here.

of course, that's exactly what they say about US. well, fuck it. we're rubber, they're glue. as in that factory to which we used to say old horses were supposed to go.

and it's THEIR choice.

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