Courtesy of the LA Times:
A surprise appearance by Gabrielle Giffords provided an emotional lift to an already celebratory atmosphere on the Democratic convention’s closing night, as the former Arizona congresswoman appeared onstage to lead the hall in the Pledge of Allegience.
After reciting the oath, Giffords waved and blew kisses to the audience before being led offstage, as chants of “Gabby” gave way to the Obama campaign’s signature cry: “Fired Up! Ready to Go!”
Okay THAT was awesome!
In other awesome news, I am back on line and also "Fired up, and ready to go!"
I had to DVR it, so I haven't watched yet. But I'm guessing you couldn't find the "f" in "Giffords" through the tears.
ReplyDeleteIf this doesn't bring a tear to your eye...
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome!
Check your title---typo. D key next to F key. I hate when I do that.
ReplyDeleteTypo alert: GiFFords, not GiDDords
ReplyDeleteFirst post, first typo.
DeleteYep, I'm back alright.
I was in tears to hear the improvement of her speech. I was over the moon thrilled to hear her recite the pledge with very minimal problems.
ReplyDeleteI posted earlier that Gabby was in Charlotte and again when I learned she was going to give the pledge -- this of course during your 'outage' and limited access to post the comments.
Menschie and I saw Gabby walk out and were instantly overcome with pride and emotion. As she grabbed her gnarled right hand with her left hand and began the pledge, we spontaneously stood and pledged with her, facing our small cross stitched framed American and Israeli flags (made by Menschie's mother upon her gaining citizenship to this country- in tribute to where she was and where she HAD been)
ReplyDeleteOur voices rose as we got to "indivisible, under God, ONE nation, for LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!" we both had tears overflowing at Gabby's triumph.
She was good...as was my new crush, Jennifer Granholm.
ReplyDeleteI am proud to say Jennifer Granholm was my governor. She can never be president, but she will keep on working for this country in other ways!
DeleteGranholm's speech was not just a home run -- she hit it from the Convention towards the west coast - over the ocean and beyond!! It may have fell into someone's vodka in Russia she was so good!!
DeleteI love when Granholm's appeared on one of the Sunday shows. She just slaps them up side the head wearing a smile and they don't know what hit them
Was reading elsewhere where they were saying Granholm for President. Many don't realize she can't as she's actually Canadian.
DeleteI think Canada just issued an Amber Alert looking to recover her!!
What would keep Jennifer Granholm from a bid for the US presidency is not her citizenship (US) but her birthplace (Canada).
DeleteCompared to a certain half-term governor, Jennifer Granholm graduated with honors from the Univ. of Berkeley in California and from Harvard Law School. As governor, Jennifer Granholm served her state proudly through two difficult terms with an insufferable Republican State Senate and an ever-worsening auto-related economy. She stuck it out, did her very best, raised her three children well, and never did anything to bring derision upon the people of Michigan.
Obama/Biden 2012!
Beaglemom
Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteShrilla from Wasilla has shown her absolute ignorance again.
I missed Kerry's speech but I guess he mentioned the moron.
Her response?
HOW DOES HE EVEN KNOW MY NAME?
She is so fucking stupid, I am almost embarrassed for her.
here is an article about this topic
Deletehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48936053/ns/local_news-anchorage_ak/#.UElxU5Zy2Cc
Her reply speaks VOLUMES about how isolated she has become in political circles. The fact that she would even have this reaction is very telling. She's been so dissed by her own Repub comrades that she is literally an outcast that couldn't even hang out in the shopping mall parking lot, and so surprised that she would be a topic at all.
DeleteDon't get the "big head", Baldy, just because you're still the punch line to a lot of political jokes. We're not going to let you slide for all of the shit you've shoveled our way for 4 years. lol Sarah is soooo thin-skinned. She doesn't have the sense to say, "No comment."
DeleteOooooh, her bony ass is burning! And I'm so pleased to see her pissed off and pissed on, also, too.
Add Kerry to the "Fuck You" list that Sarah adds more "enemy" names to almost every day.
It amazes me that her son Track didn't quit school when Sarah started showing up for PTA meetings. That is, if she really ever was in the PTA. Big "IF".
Apparently Sarah forgot when she poked fun of John Kerry's physical features by saying "Why the long face" while speaking with troops. Of course her speech instead of uplifting and encouraging was self serving and mean spirited
Deletehttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/26/palin_responds_to_sen_kerry_joke_why_the_long_face.html
I realize sarah probably wants to forget the exchange considering that her daughter now looks like Kerry's twin.
Gryphen: Headline typo - s/b Gabby GiFFords. Also, so glad to have you back on line.
ReplyDeleteO/T - Guessing game~!
ReplyDeleteGuess who composed this sentence: "I mean aren't these guys supposed to be these bigwig elites who don't waste their time on the little people like me, me representing the average American who yeah I did say in Alaska you can see Russia from our land base and I was making the point that we are strategically located on the globe and when it comes to transportation corridors and resources that are shared and fought over, Alaska and I as the governor, had known what I was doing in dealing with some international issues that had to do with our resources that could help secure the nation."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/palin-surprised-kerry-17178325#.UElvHJbTvEl
Hell, I ran out of breath just reading it.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/cavuto/index.
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-the-status-quo-has-got-to-go/?playlist_id=87065
lol Sarah, what were those "international issues"? Specifically?
DeleteI was wondering about those important "international" issues too. Issues of national security and resources independence? Sounds very important. What specifically were those now?
DeleteI love Gabby..just LOVE her! Bravo gal!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI normally don't recite the Pledge due to my faith..explanation here: http://sarahpalinhasaserpentsheart.blogspot.com/2012/05/happy-memorial-day.html
ReplyDeleteBut seeing Gabby cross the stage to do so inspired me to put my hand over my heart and recite it along with here.
Gabby is much more coherent than Clint Eastwood BTW.
Wrote a little reply on your blog, SPHASH. Peace.
DeleteGlad you are back and thanks for posting this, I was searching for it in the live feed and had all but given up. Such strength and resilience. I can't help tearing up watching everyone pulling so hard for her.
ReplyDeleteSobbed and blubbered.
ReplyDeleteFist thought: Sheer joy at Giffords' strength and courage.
Second thought: may Sarah Palin rot in the hell she's created with her hatred. Too many innocent people have suffered and died because of Palin's actions.
Kerry made a funny about Serra and now she's all puffed up, how she gets. I guess it's time for Sarah to make another "blood libel" video and make a fool of..., er, to uh, vindicate herself. Yeah, that's it, to VIN-dicate herself.
DeleteWe love Gabby. Sarah? Um, not so much.
What is really funny is the fact that president obama, michelle and even Gabby, were unafraid to be in public, speak people ~ both for and against them.
DeleteSarah palin REFUSED TO SPEAK to the pee ~ stained losers that gave time, money, and their cold, dead hearts to sarah.
She is such.a.selfish.disgusting.loser!!!!
Sarah Palin's rifle cross hairs can't keep a good woman down!
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin will always be associated and remembered for Gabby Giffords injury.
ReplyDeleteSarah palin ~ You.did.this.
DeleteYou would need a lobotomy to converse as well as Gabby.
You can NEVER equal her heart, her determination, and ~ oh yeah ~ a TRULY loving and supportive husband.
Gabby got half her skull blown off and she is STILL happier than you!!!
You are such.a.loser!!! :)
With Gabby's handicap and injuries, Gabby can still speak better than Sarah Palin.
ReplyDeleteIt's not even close.
DeleteReckon Mitt knew Sarah didn't even know the words to the POA so he wasn't taking a chance of her leaving her usual turd in the punch bowl?
Mitt's a liar and a loser, but he's not THAT stupid.
The Obama girls are turning into beautiful smart young ladies.... Unlike the Palin girls with their foul mouths and sex drives.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much vodka Baldy is knocking back watching the Obamas handle everything with such class, dignity and grace.
DeleteAnd there she is with her pimp husband, youngest two kids "farmed out" to relatives, (Piper to Molly's family and Trig to "only God knows where",) and her oldest 2 dotters constantly humping on something after they sneak out the window...
We commented on that at my house. The Obama girls were appropriately dressed, appropriately behaved, and, oh, yeah, neither of them was pregnant.
DeleteThe difference between the Obama and Palin family.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama mentioned at the DNC that his girls still has to go to school in the morning.
Palin girls if they were at the RNC: "Mom can we skip school this whole week? How about a whole month?"
Palin: oh, so you've been going?
DeleteSarah Palin is a dumbfuck! How and why did McCain pick that retard to be his running mate?
ReplyDelete“I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name," Palin said in an interview on Fox Business Network. "How does he even know my name? I mean aren’t these guys supposed to be these big wig elites who don’t waste their time on the little people like me -- me representing the average American who, yeah I did say in Alaska you can see Russia from our land base and I was making the point that we are strategically located on the globe and when it comes to transportation corridors and resources that are shared and fought over [in] Alaska and I as the governor had known what I was doing in dealing with some international issues that had to do with our resources that could help secure the nation."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/sarah-palin-john-kerry-dnc_n_1863251.html
SARAH PALIN YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTECTING THE NATION FROM RUSSIA. YOUR JOB AS GOVERNOR WAS TO COLLECT PER DIEM TO LIVE IN WASILLA, KEEP YOUR KIDS-HUSBAND AND YOURSELF OUT OF JAIL AND PRISON, TO PASS LEGISLATION THAT YOU COULD BENEFIT FROM AFTER YOU QUIT BEING GOVERNOR 1/2 WAY INTO YOUR TERM LIKE YOU DID WHEN YOU PASSED THE ALASKAN FILM TAX CREDIT AND TO GET YOUR UNEDUCATED KIDS THEIR GEDs.
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah... still telling those same old tired lies 4 years later...
DeleteIt is literally ALL she has, her life of lies.
DeleteShe is such.a.loser!!
What a beautiful woman, I just love her so much. She is such an inspiration to so many people.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Gryph, I was wondering what happened to you. Sounds like things were pretty bad on the storm front there.
HOW DOES HE EVEN KNOW MY NAME? -Sarah Palin
ReplyDeleteSarah how did your kids even know your name? Instead of doing your job as governor or mother, you were hiding out in your tanning bed eating Taco Bell Wraps!
http://tinyurl.com/StylishRomneyBagForSarah
ReplyDeleteAnyone else see this ad pic at the link above? I hope SaraPAC will donate to her party's Pres/VP nominees' campaigns. Since she's one of the leaders of her party, wouldn't it be bad form to "not" make a political donation?
Plus, she'll get a free bag with Mitt's name on it as a lovely parting gift! lol
Thank you Gabby Giffords for not giving in to the Alaskan terrorist. And thank you for being our forever reminder that words do have power and must never be spoken from hatred or revenge.
ReplyDeleteI feel such a contrast every time I see Gabby...just overwhelming love and appreciation for that amazing woman versus the absolute disgust and hate I feel for the witch from Wasilla who placed gunsights on the former congresswoman's name on the big map of progressives to be taken out by the rightwingers.
ReplyDeleteAnd Palin's operative very nearly succeeded with his assassination attempts on Gabby, besides all the other innocents he killed and maimed that bloody day.
Gabby is the definition of American courage, patriotism, and spirit.
ReplyDeleteBut Sarah Palin's gunsights inspired this violent lunatic to call for the assassination of the President: One of those tweets was by a "second amendment solution", "don't retreat--reload" Teatard calling for the President's assassination. Always classy, these republicans!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/07/1128805/-THE-CHOICE-When-16-Year-Old-Alyssa-Douglas-Calls-For-The-President-s-Assassination-on-Twitter
Gabby all of America loves you. You are the symbol of courage, integrity, decency, and respect. We cherish your determination and class. This is not about Democrats, Republicans,or independents. It is about Americans. I will not even mention that vile, evil, disgusting Bitch by name in this post, because I do not want to diminish you Ms. Giffords, by including her in the same sentence. Suffice it to say Gabby, you are the WINNER, and we are all better off because of you.
ReplyDeleteI think Palin got off easy in the using targets the map to take down Democrats.
ReplyDeleteShe should have been denounced by republicans when she put up those targets and I remember Gabby Giffords talking about them and the consequence of using them before she and the others were shot and some killed.
Palin created a volatile situation when running for VP she knew the crazies were out there, she even met them in her own state!
That was a beautiful moment. What a spectacular evening it was! Each speech was great. A proud moment for Jennifer Granholm, who was an excellent governor here in Michigan for eight difficult years. And she even raised a family while governor although her children were never in the spotlight. I was absolutely riveted to the television screen last night and had many teary moments. How proud I am of the Democratic Party! Now we have to get to work and re-elect President Obama and Vice President Biden and give them a resounding Democratic majority in Congress!
ReplyDeleteObama/Biden 2012
Beaglemom
I watched MSMBC last night and was VERY disgusted that they did not show all of Mrs. Granholm's speech. She was obviously really fired up and MSMBC cut her speech short. Why? Too much competition from Current TV's Mrs. Granholm? I expected better of Rachel Maddow.
DeleteJennifer Granholm is everything Scary Payme wants the public to believe about her.... BUT Mrs. Granholm IS the "real deal." Mrs. Payme is a fake.
DeleteI seldom ever cry, so when Gabby came on stage and began the pledge and my tears started flowing, I was overwhelmed with a mix of emotions: her courage, her beauty, her grace, the deep friendship she shares with her colleague Wasserman-Schultz, and the deep love her husband has for her. At the same time, I was saddened by the obvious toll her injuries have taken and wondered if she would ever again be the vibrant effective politician she once was. Nonetheless, I rejoiced in her recovery so far, and was so happy to see her at the Convention. Very moving experience. I don't think I have ever experienced the Pledge of Allegiance quite like that before.
ReplyDeleteHey, Welcome Back, Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteThis was, by far, my favorite part of the convention.
Gabby just blew me away! I read her book, and Mark Kelly did a wonderful job of relaying their whole life and love story.
Gabby, at age 26, took over her family's large tire business and her dealings with the public inspired her to delve into public service. The last chapter was mostly in her own voice. The sentences are labored and incomplete, showing the extent of her injury, yet her beautiful smile, indefatigable resolve and spirit shined through.
Seeing how far she's come, and imagining the hard work she's put in so far, makes me believe her when she said "I will be back, I will get better". (without the benefit of therapeutic olympian horse ballet therapy, nor a PAC paid ghostwriter, BTW)
I'm so glad she was able to add her voice to the convention. My heart sank when her friend, Debbie Wasserman Schwartz prompted her with the first word, then my spirit soared seeing her proudly pledging her allegiance to the flag.