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4:35 PM PT:
Welcome to the #DNC where the people on stage resemble the people in the audience.
— @LOLGOP via TweetDeck
4:37 PM PT: Re: Tulsi Gabbard, the female Democratic congressional candidate in Hawaii who also served as a Captain in the Army National Guard:
Tulsi Gabbart has more combat experience than all five Romney boys combined #fact #DNC
— @tbogg via web
And I do believe this is true:
Am I wrong in saying the DNC has already said more about sacrifice of service men and women than the RNC did?
— @emptywheel via TweetDeck
4:44 PM PT: As Interior Secretary Ken Salazar addresses the convention, on MSNBC, Ezra Klein takes a look at President Obama's record:
Is there more work to be done? You bet. But we are much better off now than we were four years ago. It's not close. President Obama is a dramatically better president than George W. Bush was—or Mitt Romney would be.
4:48 PM PT: Joseph Kennedy III, who is running for Barney Frank's seat and whose election would mark the return of the Kennedy family to Congress, introduces a video honoring his uncle, former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
4:51 PM PT: Hahaha, Mitt Romney makes a cameo—in the form of his epic debate meltdown against Ted Kennedy. You know, the debate where he proclaimed he was pro-choice.
4:52 PM PT: Okay, Kaili put it better:
Clint Eastwood lost a debate to an empty chair. Romney just lot a debate to a dead man.
— @KailiJoy via web
4:54 PM PT:
Romney thought he bought up all of those old Kennedy debate tapes.
— @tbogg via web
4:54 PM PT: Twenty years later, Ted Kennedy is still kicking Mitt Romney's ass.
5:03 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.