Live-Drawing The DNC: Day Two

Michelle and Barack were stars

I turned on the Democratic National Convention at around 7 tonight to listen in the background. There were speakers, but I didn’t pay too much attention until they did the roll call. I LOVE the roll call! This year, the Democrats had already done a virtual count of delegates, so this was ceremonial, and they even had music (with a quirky DJ) during the call. As the Democratic Party Secretary called each state, each representative was so proud of their state, and they yell out things about their state that makes it distinctive. Some of them are funny about it, in a proud way. Like New York!

Speaking of New York (I’m biased), Senator Chuck Schumer spoke about the Senate. He also mentioned, on a personal note, that he is the highest ranking elected Jewish person in the history of our government, something I did not know. It was a way for him to lead into his concern for the rise of anti-semintism.

The next notable speaker was Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders went through a long list of things that had been acheived under the Biden/Harris administration, but he also listed things he wanted to get done. It was a rather tedious —…