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Rhiannon12866

(216,726 posts) Thu Aug 22, 2024, 12:40 AM Aug 22

Tim Walz delivers pep talk in full speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention Day 3 - PBS NewsHour

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz formally accepted the vice presidential nomination, a day before Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage as the official nominee.

On the third night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Walz spent time telling the audience more about his personal story, including the difficulties he and his wife Gwen faced when starting a family.

Walz presented himself as an advocate for personal freedoms, distilling his view to: “Mind your own damn business.”

Leaning into his coaching days, Walz then made a case for why Democrats “got something better to offer the American people.”

“I haven’t given a lot of big speeches like this, but I have given a lot of pep talks,” Walz said. “Let me finish with this, team: It’s the fourth quarter. We’re down a field goal, but we’re on offense and we got the ball. We’re driving down the field. And boy do we have the right team! Kamala Harris is tough!”

“Our job, for everyone watching, is to get in the trenches and do the blocking and tackling,” he added. - Aired on 08/21/2024.

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Tim Walz delivers pep talk in full speech at 2024 Democratic National Convention Day 3 - PBS NewsHour (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 22 OP

My son is a football coach. I understand Walz. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 22 #1

And his teams still love him! They showed up - in uniform! Rhiannon12866 Aug 22 #4

That was a butt-burner of a political speech Layzeebeaver Aug 22 #2

He sure is the perfect candidate, overnight everybody loves him Rhiannon12866 Aug 22 #3

Now THAT is a convention pep talk! DFW Aug 22 #5

Not worth mentioning. I've heard a lot of highly educated people screw up compound personal pronouns. mobeau69 Aug 22 #6

I'm aware of all that, but the VP job involves a LOT of contact with foreign leaders DFW Aug 22 #8

Heck of a 3rd evening Jarqui Aug 22 #7

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,144 posts)

1. My son is a football coach. I understand Walz.

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Thu Aug 22, 2024, 01:20 AM

Aug 22

Rhiannon12866

(216,726 posts)

4. And his teams still love him! They showed up - in uniform!

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 07:18 AM

Aug 22

Layzeebeaver

(1,832 posts)

2. That was a butt-burner of a political speech

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 03:34 AM

Aug 22

I don't think I've ever heard anything like it.

wow... just wow...

Rhiannon12866

(216,726 posts)

3. He sure is the perfect candidate, overnight everybody loves him

Reply to Layzeebeaver (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 03:38 AM

Aug 22

DFW

(55,910 posts)

5. Now THAT is a convention pep talk!

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 08:32 AM

Aug 22

I just wish he wouldn't use the Republicanese "This is personal for Gwen and I." It really grates on the ears.

Easy rule: in English, if you say, "It's personal for me," then you say "It's personal for Gwen and me."
If you say, "it's personal for I," then you say, "it's personal for Gwen and I."

Nobody says, "It's personal for I."

Other than that, quite the barnstormer!

mobeau69

(11,401 posts)

6. Not worth mentioning. I've heard a lot of highly educated people screw up compound personal pronouns.

Reply to DFW (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 09:40 AM

Aug 22

He didn’t teach English. He taught geography and football for Pete’s sake!

DFW

(55,910 posts)

8. I'm aware of all that, but the VP job involves a LOT of contact with foreign leaders

Reply to mobeau69 (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 06:51 PM

Aug 22

Many of them speak better English that half our politicians. If our people are to be taken seriously, they can't be making simple errors that the foreign leaders would have recognized as incorrect before they were twelve years old. It is imperative that our highest representatives come across as educated and serious to their counterparts in other countries. It may seem as trivial on US cable TV. It is not trivial when NATO or the UN meets. The VP job is a level above football. If Walz is to represent us in these circles, he can't come across as a Democratic Dan Quayle. He's WAY smarter than that, but having convinced the American voter of that isn't enough to play in Brussels, Jerusalem, Riyadh or Tokyo. If he doesn't talk like it, he won't be taken seriously. Trump may get 40% of the vote in the USA, but outside of Hungary, there isn't one NATO country that would give him 15%.

Jarqui

(10,406 posts)

7. Heck of a 3rd evening

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Aug 22, 2024, 10:39 AM

Aug 22

The Walz family. Real family love on display. That was not an act.
His past students. Same thing. They love their teacher/coach. Tremendous affection.
The story about Tim & his wife finding the extra coaching job so they could pay off a students lunch debts ....

When have we ever seen or heard such things about Trump that were emotional and genuine demonstrating that he gave of himself - not just threw money at it?

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