Up until Thursday night it had been a crowded week for the Democratic National Convention. There were too many delegates and reporters jammed into the Pepsi Center. The conversations of the faithful were crowded with anxieties about slipping poll numbers, soft messaging, elusive unity, and the omnipresent Clintons.
DAYTON, Ohio — While my TWI colleagues are preparing for Obama’s speech at Invesco, I’m here anxiously awaiting Sen. John McCain’s veep announcement, slated for tomorrow. Free tickets for the 12,000-seater still available!
Also, the mysterious ad announced earlier in the day by the McCain campaign is, in More…
DENVER — Here it is, one of the most spectacular displays of political pageantry in American history: Invesco Field, home of the Broncos, for the climactic event of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In a few hours, Sen. Barack Obama will officially become the first African-American presidential nominee of a More…
DENVER — In 2004, I was googling around to find something about Joe Biden for a piece I was writing. What I found was a short-lived blog titled Joe Biden Is Thugged Out, devoted to celebrating the Delaware Senator’s bodacious pugilism. Sadly, the blog shut down after a couple posts. More…
DENVER–Tammy Duckworth — Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite — is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking about supporting troops with more than rhetoric. Wants us to win in Afghanistan. “Instead of destroying the enemies who attacked us on 9/11, we diverted our military might More…
DENVER–Here’s retired Real Adm. John Hutson, a recovering Republican. He’s here “to declare myself a proud member of the Democratic Party and to endorse Barack Obama as the next president of the United States of America.” Why? “Because the Republican Party I once knew has become something… I no longer More…
DENVER–The world was his stage again. Sixteen years after William Jefferson Clinton accepted the nomination of his party, he stood here tonight before an audience he fully expected would be nominating his wife as the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States. Instead, he was here, admittedly, warming More…
DENVER — You know what we haven’t given due attention to? The conservatives lurking around the city, eager to stroke a PUMA, decry an elitist, defend the beleaguered cause of white America and generally put on a show of IRL trollery.
DENVER — I know, I know, I know: tomorrow night’s theme is national security. But it’s still kind of surprising that the schedule for tonight — theme: Restoring America’s Promise — soft-pedals the issue of the war. I see retired Rear Adm. John Hutson — a leading figure in More…
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