My Notes of Sept. 5th Democratic National Convention Day, Part VI

N.B.: I have not run a fact check on some of the Democratic speakers' claims. If I'll do, I'll amend these 'minutes.'
N.B.B: This is, at last, the final installment of notes for this convention! Next night I might even sleep more than three hours instead of being discommoded by the time zone differences. (c:

11:26 p.m. Antonio Villaraigosa. Chant: We are fired up! Nomination seconded by everyone roaring "Yea!"

Ashley Judd at the ABC's Missing
@ The Paley Center 2012,
by Genevieve.
April 11, 2012.
via Wikimedia Commons,
(Licence: (CC BY 2.0))

Alice Germond, secretary of the committee, calls the roll of the states. We know that every state counts and that every vote is precious, she says, apparently criticizing treatment of Ron Paul delegates in Republican Convention. California has 609 votes, 37.5 million people! I like the secretary, who could be a benevolent figure amongst the magicians' faculty of Hogwarts. Dr. Joseph Lowery speaking for Georgia! [Besides being a civil rights activist and minister, I've just seen that he is the person who incorporated the in, my view very funny, mellow/yellow, etc., line at the Obama inauguration.] The young Iowan speakers are pretty endearing. As Mississippi passes to Ohio, Obama receives enough votes for an official nomination. Music: "Celebration Time" as a screen says "Over the Top!" 384 votes for New York State. Puerto Rico: land of Sonia Sotomayor. :) Is Ashley Judd announcing Tennessee (home of Grand Ole Opry) 's votes? [A certain online encyclopaedia states that she "earned a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration degree (MC MPA, a one year degree, not to be confused with the more rigorous two-year MPA) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government," in 2010, before mentioning that yes, she is a political activist.] She looks lovely. Vermont: "first state in the union to outlaw slavery," says Sen. Patrick Leahy. Virgin Islands, which has 12 votes. Virginia: home, for instance, to Gabby Douglas. Washington State. Wisconsin. etc. I've boiled this all down considerably, because this took a very, very long time.
12:57 a.m. Antonio Villaraigosa assumes the microphone again, tells us that Barack Obama has accepted his nomination.

Benediction by Rabbi David Wolpe, of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. A few words in Hebrew at a national convention! Pleads for leaders and thinkers and preachers, talks of 'right and left worshipping the same God.'

1:01 a.m. Convention in recess until 4 p.m. EDT tomorrow!

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Or — instead of all these detailed notes — you could (have) read:
"DNC Recap: Bill Clinton's Night" [Atlantic], by Elspeth Reeve (September 5, 2012)