08-29-2012, 11:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Sharing my mother's basement with several liberals who can't hold a job.
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Originally Posted by tbomachines
I didn't watch it (putting that out there first and foremost) but who were those that spoke? How many AA/minority speakers were there, and their importance? I have to imagine at least Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal were there?
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Jindal is up to his ass in water and chose to lead his state and not appear. Steele is sitting in the audience. Why not educate instead of denigrate?
The person you attempt to shine on is Artur Davis.
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TAMPA, Fla. – One of the president's early supporters, former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, emerged on the prime-time stage at the Republican convention – giving voice to those disillusioned by the promise of the Obama White House.
Almost every convention has one, a party-switcher who becomes a star in their new political home. Davis left the Democratic Party after a failed run for Alabama governor in 2010. Next week, the Democrats will put former Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida on stage, as a Republican now supporting Obama.
But the presence of Davis, an African American who seconded Obama’s nomination four years ago at the Democratic convention in Denver, offered a particularly poignant message.
“Do you know why so many of us believed? We led with our hearts and our dreams that we could be more inclusive than America had ever been, and no candidate had ever spoken so beautifully," said Davis, the Harvard-educated lawyer who has been mulling a run for office as a Republican from his new home in Virginia.
"Let's put the poetry aside, let's suspend the hype, let's come down to earth and start creating jobs," he said to cheers.
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Former Rep. Artur Davis says why he left Democrats for GOP - latimes.com
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