Live from DNC: Hillary the Angry Populist, Part II (Day 3)
She also promised “to join with our allies to confront our shared challenges,” including global warming. Perhaps recycling her campaign rhetoric was part of that effort.
CONVENTION UNSEEN:
If you couldn’t make it to Denver, you’re not really missing much in terms of politics. In fact, the convention site might be the worst place to watch the convention.
The convention is a “made for TV event,” progressive blogger David Goldstein said. “Being a political junkie and seeing almost every convention on TV since I was five years old, I almost feel like I’m missing this one being on the floor.”
Access to the Pepsi Center is overrated, says Goldstein, a Seattle resident who is one of the “50 state” bloggers credentialed to cover the convention.
“It’s kind of like going to a football game,” he said. “It’s really exciting, but you can really watch the game better on TV. So I can see the reaction of the crowd, but I have no idea how this is playing to the millions of Americans watching at home.”
BATTLING BULLHORNS:
Tuesday afternoon, the Revolutionary Communist Party showed up on 16th Street and did an impromptu counterprotest of a pro-life demonstration. The pro-lifers had apparently timed their protest to coincide with Hillary Clinton’s speech to the Emily’s List gala at the Sheraton Hotel. Kaitlin Mahoney spent an hour engaged in a bullhorn duel with the RCP activists. Whatever the relative merits of communism and the right to life, the noise was an annoyance to diners at the streetside Capitol Bar at the Sheraton.
By the way, I missed a few minutes of Hillary’s performance here and there. Did she ever say what the “millions of green collar jobs” are going to be? (Millions?!??!)
Will green be the color of the uniform for Obama’s new Civilian Defense Force? And will their job be to travel house-to-house ensuring that everyone’s thermostat is set properly, they’re driving an appropriately flex-fueled vehicle, trigger-locking their nasty firearms, visiting only government approved web sites, etc.?
Or is green the color of the uniform to be worn by the millions of professional spinners who will generate America’s electricity through hours of pedaling stationary bikes?
Bueller? Anyone?
Do these people even listen to themselves?
Clinton’s speech was very environment-friendly: it was all recycled.
Boilerplate.
I believe the traditional color is brown. At least for the shirts….
So… ‘green’ is the new ‘brown’?
That’s good to know.
Watermelons: Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
I AM AMUSED BY THE SPIN, THAT THE SPECIAL SARA VP IS JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY.
WHEN OBAMA, IS THE BIG BEAT. A ROOKIE PRESIDENT AND THE ROOKIE VICE PRESIDENT, WHICH ONE NEEDS THE EXPERIENCE THE MOST? YEP, SHOULD SARA HAVE TO TAKE OVER MCCAINS JOB, SHE CAN DO THE SAME THING OBAMA DID AND FIND HER A FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAN LIKE JOE BIDEN TO LEAN ON. HA!