The address by ex-President Bill Clinton was a perfect example. "We've seen more than one election slip away from us when we thought it couldn't happen, when people got distracted by phony issues or overconfident. This is a brutal, tough business," he told the crowd, before concluding a few minutes later: "We need Kamala Harris, the president of joy, to lead us."
In this life, my father never cast a vote because of Jim Crow, so I dedicated my career to protecting the votes against violence and discrimination. You can imagine what I felt on Jan. 6 when I saw with my own eyes those insurrectionists trying to take that away," Thompson told the crowd. "They did it to rob millions of Americans of their votes."
For most of the convention, the message seemed to be: Join the fight to save democracy-and let's have some fun while we do it. It's an audacious strategy that President Biden could have never pulled off.
Over and over, joy and happiness were the theme of cheerful celebrities and upbeat optimists who took the stage at the United Center in Chicago, including comedians Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Kennan Thompson and Mindy Kahling, poet Amanda Gorman and songsters John Legend, Stevie Wonder and Sheila E.
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