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“How do you think you've changed?”

Grete Meerholz talks with her husband, Keith, about his escape from the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001.

Recorded in New York, NY, by StoryCorps®.

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Speeches of Note from DNC `08

I'm sure I'll be adding to this as I find things. Or, maybe not. I do have a job.

Monday, 8/25/2008

• Caroline Kennedy (review here)


• Ted Kennedy (review here)


• Michelle Obama (review here)

Tuesday, 8/26/2008

• Gov. David Paterson
  I learned things from this speech. Very sad things.


• Dennis Kucinich
  Crazy, rabble-rousing-type speechifying. I still think he, with his belly-fire and ability to raise belly-fires, should have been keynote instead of the former governor of Virginia and current governor of lameness, Mark Warner.


• Hillary Clinton (review here)

Wednesday, 8/27/2008

• Bill Clinton (review here)


• John Kerry (review here)


• Beau Biden
  Increadibly good speech, moving without being treacley. And his step-mom seems like a truly lovely person.


• Joe Biden (review here)
  Make sure to watch his mom, who is adorably awesome as only an old Irish-American great-granny can be.

Thursday, 8/28/2008

• Al Gore (review here)


• Barack Obama (review here)

Non-Pols
Unfortunately, I can't find video of most of the non-politicians who spoke. They were often very moving, and they gave the best reasons why the Obama-Biden ticket is the one to support in the coming election.

Only a few, but…

• Maj. Tammy Duckworth


• Pam Cash-Roper (8/28)


• Barney Smith (8/28)
  The booing of his Republican past at the beginning of his speech was just plain rude.

I really wish I could find the machinist from the 25th, and the student caring for her disabled sister, the auto parts worker, the textile mill worker, the woman who lost the discrimination case in the Supreme Court, and the home health care worker from the 26th.

Music Which Was Good But Which Is Not Available

• Alehandro Escovar
  I can't find his awesome performance from the 26th. Possibly because I'm misspelling his name.

Music Which Was Not Entirely Awful (actually quite good) Which Is Available

• John Legend w/ properly miked Agape choir


• will.i.am & John Legend w/ improperly miked Agape choir (DNC: "D'oh!")


• Stevie Wonder & Take 6
  Holy cats, Take 6! I haven't seen them in forever!

Musicians Whose Performances Were Entirely Awful

• Melissa Etheridge


• Sheryl Crow