Cory Booker! Laying it down and bringing it home!!

[MerryBlooms]

[flamingdem]

1. great Booker

[MerryBlooms]

7. I love this man. He's true blue and sings of righteousness for all.

[flamingdem]

21. inspiring!!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. The guy can talk

Really positive about this guy down the road.

[MerryBlooms]

9. That's for sure.

[Cary]

3. Love him!

Corey 2024

[PatSeg]

60. That is probably what he was thinking

Kind of his "Obama Moment", like 2004.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Hell.

A b s o l u t e l y

GREAT!

[femmocrat]

5. This is an outstanding speech. One to remember.

[MerryBlooms]

14. Inspirational and man, what a great opening day!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. "I'm from Jersey I know how Trump does business"

Great stuff

[George II]

63. That was a slap at Christie, too.

[tandot]

8. Love him

[GoCubsGo]

10. He reminds me of President Obama.

Another speech I wish would come on prime time when more people will be watching.

[MerryBlooms]

19. I think millions are watching and once his speech and the others hit youtube...

there will be a huge groundswell of support for the Democratic nominee!!

[Hekate]

11. "I'm from Jersey! So I know how Donald runs his businesses!"

[KT2000]

12. Great speech!

Love not hate!!

[tallahasseedem]

13. He is indeed!

Jersey strong!

[mcar]

15. I really like him!

He's doing great.

[wildeyed]

16. Oh yes!

Great speech!

[one_voice]

17. I like him a lot!

[Ace Rothstein]

18. Very passionate and rational.

[michaz]

20. Booker is Fantastic!!! n/t

[coco77]

22. He can move on we

Got the point. He is trying to fdo what President Obama did at the convention when he was senator going on too long..

[MerryBlooms]

28. I'd appreciate if you delete and not disrepect my OP.

[coco77]

42. Glad he is done .

No he is not the next Obama there will be others. Alert!Alert!

[MerryBlooms]

49. You'll have to go be insignificant somewhere else.

[coco77]

51. Wow it doent take much to thrill

Now here comes the good stuff.

[Hekate]

38. Byeeeee

[coco77]

47. Yes bye booker

Just repeating himself.

[Hekate]

50. Do you wish to articulate your widdle feelings at greater length? Please proceed.

[coco77]

52. No. I don't have time

The good speakers are on now.Go Michelle and Bernie!

[MerryBlooms]

23. Bring it! We will rise!!!

[Hekate]

24. We will rise! Smiling, optimistic, the polar opposite of Trump.

[yuiyoshida]

25. saiko!

great speech.

[MerryBlooms]

34. How huge is your smile right now!?! Wasn't that magnificent!!

[yuiyoshida]

43. yup!

for me, its still going on. delayed I guess.

[Haveadream]

26. "Cynicism is the refuge of cowards!"

Cory nailed it!

[MerryBlooms]

37. Tears of joy.

[fishwax]

27. We Will Rise

[MerryBlooms]

39. Yes we will!

[Snarkoleptic]

29. Very solid and full of ideals/policy prescriptions.

This guy is good!

[brentspeak]

55. So you like his "prescriptions" to break teacher unions

and funnel taxpayer dollars to hedge fund-owned charter schools?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/kausfiles/2008/08/dems_rally_against_unions.html

[Snarkoleptic]

65. The speech was positive, I'm not for union busting and didn't hear that

in the speech...

[Glimmer of Hope]

30. Let us rise! Woo hoo!!!

[oswaldactedalone]

31. We Will Rise!!!

And boom goes the dynamite.

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. Knocked it out the box. Cory Booker!!!!

[MerryBlooms]

41. *sigh AWESOME

[R B Garr]

45. Love him! We'll be seeing lots more of him!

[1StrongBlackMan]

54. Was that Cory's 2004 (now, President) Obama's moment!

[R B Garr]

56. Could be! I can see it happening. We were

star struck!

[sufrommich]

33. O...M.....G

I would hate to have to follow that!

[nolabear]

35. That was us. Eloquent, straightforward, passionate, RISING!

[auntpurl]

36. He was AMAZING.

He was on my VP shortlist and I still think he would have been a wonderful choice - even though I am thrilled with Time Kaine.

[Greywing]

40. What a TREMENDOUS speech!!!! I'm ready! Let's elect the 1st woman President of the United States!

Rise up against hate .... ROAR! I am there!!!

[beachbumbob]

44. Awesome

[zonkers]

46. That made me cry more than a Ken Burns documentay.

[TeddyR]

53. That was a great speech from Booker

[Cha]

57. Good to hear.. Mahalo, MB~

[FailureToCommunicate]

58. "We rise"

Amazingly powerful speech!

[George II]

59. "You may write me down in history....

.....With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I’ll rise"

[MerryBlooms]

61. I know I'll probably catch hell for this, but I dont' care-

Cory Booker's speech was one of the most moving of this convention.

[George II]

62. It was almost a three-way tie between Cory, Michelle, and Elizabeth. But there are 3 nights to go!

[alfredo]

64. He will be president in 2020

[lakercub]

66. That's what a positive speech sounds like.

I think that speech and the speech by Anastasia Somoza turned the day around. There were still obnoxious interruptions during Booker's speech, but he was so relentlessly positive that I think it really helped change the mood.

It was certainly a far cry from doomfest 2016 last week. I think it was exactly what was needed. Try to bring back themes of unity and shared struggles and triumphs. The USA has much to work on, but it's not the horror described last week and this was just the right speech to start telling that story. Plus, I was on the treadmill doing a 5 mile run, and his delivery really energized me. I can't thank him enough for that