Spirits are high here with the Hawaii delegation. This was the scene just a few minutes ago. Be sure to watch this one to the end! It’s a 9 MB file, so might take you a while to download, but it’s fun. Star performer is Chuck Freedman, no stranger to government and politics and now [...]
Click on the photo to the left to get an idea of what it’s like here early in this first night of the Democratic National Convention.
It’s just after 5 p.m. and I’ve just gotten plugged in with the Hawaii delegation at the Pepsi Center. Behind me, Congresswoman Mazie Hirono is posing for photos. To my immediate left is the flower arrangement which took an hour or so to put up. One thing I can say is that Sen. Donna Kim [...]
I ran into a couple of guys outside the Colorado Convention Center today who are from Nathaniel Swift’s Political Novelties and Oddities, a new company in Seattle. I don’t know if these glasses really make it any easier to spot the BS, but they certainly get the message across. They also offer The Recovering Republican [...]
Some people say newspapers are dying, but you wouldn’t know it here in Denver. When I got back from breakfast, there was a stack outside the door. Both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News had bright red wrap arounds boldly announcing, “Extra Extra”. Gannett’s USA Today was there, as in many hotels. And then [...]
Media Matters for America sent out a quick response regarding current reporting of supposed plagiarism by VP pick Joe Biden two decades ago. Here’s a link to the full response, and a summary follows: Summary: The Los Angeles Times reported that when Sen. Joe Biden ran for president in 1987, he “was accused of plagiarism [...]
According to a S-B story this morning, the Stop Rail Now folks say they’re going back to court to argue against the city’s requirement that they have about 44,000 signatures to get their question on the ballot. Stop Rail Now contends it needs about 30,000 signatures, an amount equal to 10 percent of the number [...]
