*Speeches starting now, with Bernie.

[elleng]

[riversedge]

1. I do like what he says. But he seems to be yelling.

[elleng]

4. He always seems to yell.

[Raine1967]

8. Yes.

I like many of his positions, but he always yells.

Eh. Not a fan of the yelling.

ETA it was fun riff of the sanders SNL parody which I loved.

[elleng]

10. Hi, Raine.

MO'M's up now, and Irish music playing!!!

[Agschmid]

2. I'm watching Scandal...

I know I'm being a bad political junkie.

[Raine1967]

6. I love that show.

Damn, I cannot walk away from that show!

Cyrus is back! I don't know if I like that or not.

[Agschmid]

14. He is back... he finally showered.

It is good.

Clearly sometimes even my priorities aren't in the right place

[Raine1967]

15. I totally LOL'd right now!

Thank you for that!

[BlueCheese]

3. Sanders is doing pretty well, I think.

Hitting the usual high notes. Taking one of the more explicit shots against Clinton I've heard him make about the TPP, saying it never was the gold standard and he didn't support it yesterday, doesn't support it today, and won't support it tomorrow. I wonder if he'll mention the Iraq War.

One little note: I do think it's amusing to think that Burlington, Vermont, a town of 42,000 people, had special interests and a political establishments to fight against.

[BlueCheese]

7. Yup, there's the Iraq War part.

This is one of the more aggressive speeches I've heard from Sanders.

[Raine1967]

5. Live stream link:

http://iowademocrats.org/2015-jj-livestream/

[BlueCheese]

9. Sanders finished up.

Surprising amount of time spent on his past and his record. Not as much on his proposals and the future. Perhaps he thinks everyone already knows them.

Good response from the crowd.

[BlueCheese]

11. Now O'Malley.

I guess "actions, not words" is his theme. Has it always been?

I think we'll hear more about guns here than we did with Sanders.

[elleng]

13. Yes, and 'New Leadership.'

[BlueCheese]

12. O'Malley sounds quiet compared with Sanders.

First subtle jab: "I am a lifelong Democrat."

[elleng]

16. Yes, he sounds quiet compared with Sanders,

always will imo. ACTIONS, NOT WORDS!

[Raine1967]

17. That isn't a jab, that is a factual truth.

Take a look at his father and mother.

His Mom still works for Senator Mikulski.

[BlueCheese]

20. It's both factual and a jab.

Nothing wrong with that.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

25. He did sound quiet and was messing with his shirt sleeves

He is better when he is himself and stops putting on that bill Clinton accent.

[aspirant]

18. Hillary seems to have a disgusted look to her

and is very rude by using Repubs tactics of talking over people

[Raine1967]

23. ?? Are you talking about a camera cut to Clinton?

I am watching O'MAlley.

[Raine1967]

19. 'To build upon the Obama Biden progress', I can agree with this!

[Raine1967]

21. This is honestly one of the reasons why I support O'Malley, he got the things I as a Dem

want done in his state of Maryland.

I want to see this done for the country. He got these things done.

He got them done with opposition.

[BlueCheese]

24. Maryland is a pretty blue state.

But yes, he's got a lot done in Maryland.

[RichVRichV]

34. That definitely helps, but is no guarantee of success.

Democrats hold a super majority in Illinois congress, and we could hardly get anything accomplished even when we had a Democrat as governor.

[liberal_at_heart]

35. That's when you know you have the wrong Democrats in office.

[RichVRichV]

36. The state is run by House Speaker Michael Madigan.

He's the one that really holds the power. He's awesome at getting and keeping Democrats elected (the famous Chicago machine). Unfortunately watching Democrats in Illinois is kind of like watching the Republicans in the US house. The only thing they can agree on is that they never agree on anything.


Now with Bruce "wannabe Scott Walker" Rauner as governer, the entire government has ground to a halt with no budget, which is only slightly worse than it normally runs (I say with limited sarcasm, I know the shutdown is hurting people).

[BlueCheese]

22. O'Malley is doing quite well, I think.

Good reprisal of his well-received closing statement from the debate.

The "actions, not words" theme works well with his description of his record about college tuition, public education, immigration, and guns. Did not seem to overly use gun control to contrast himself with Sanders.

[Raine1967]

26. 100% clean energy grid! This is a big one for me!

[Raine1967]

27. O'malley is killing this. He is now talking and taking to task the NRA…

I drove past that awful headquarters twice today.

Birds flipped and F-bombs thrown.

[BlueCheese]

28. O'Malley talking about guns at great length.

Huge applause from the crowd.

Mentions the couple who lost their daughter in Aurora, CO, and the law that gave the gun industry immunity. Not mentioning anyone else by name, but his implication is obvious.

Oops, now he has mentioned Sanders and Clinton by name, but only to ask them to join him, not to criticize them.

[BlueCheese]

29. Very good by O'Malley

I liked his policy part better than the rhetorical crescendo at the end. Overall made a good case for himself, and his record.

I hope he gets more attention in coming months.

[elleng]

33. His policy part is the BEST,

and I too hope people notice this, FROM NOW ON!

[Raine1967]

30. I think we will be making a very nice donation to O'MAlley.

There is nothing — not one thing he said that was off pitch —

I like that person. I like his message.

[elleng]

31. Ditto,

just checked my checking account!

[liberal_at_heart]

32. Are we crashing ActBlue? because I am trying to make a donation to Bernie and it is in

process mode. It won't seem to go through.