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Convention ’08
Will.i.am and John Legend perform “Yes We Can” For security reasons, I chose not to bring my iPod with me anywhere. To compensate for this self-imposed lack of tunes, I paid more attention to the songs played at the various events, mainly between speakers and underneath the announcer’s voice (who I swear announces for the [...]
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I have 15 min left of my internet time so I have to keep this brief until tonight. But Invesco field was absolutely fantastic though also absolutely chaotic. You can read some of my thoughts over at MiddBlog. Invesco wasn’t all we did yesterday, though. We spent the morning at a panel discussion by the [...]
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I may be 20 years old but the significance of what happened today was not lost on me. I mean, I walked from a panel on how we’re going to reform the American Healthcare system in the next couple of months onto the convention floor where we nominated, for the first time, an African American [...]
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I spent my morning today at a healthcare panel called “Winning Healthcare Reform in 2009″ hosted/moderated by the SEIU’s Andy Stern and Ron Pollack from Families USA. I was thrilled to get to hear Stern speak after reading so much about him and talking so much about his decision to endorse Obama in various discussion [...]
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Well, the rest of Day 2 proved to be much less confrontational than the first 4 hours, though that may be mostly due to the fact that I avoided the SD delegation for most of the day. I spent my afternoon at the Hispanic Insitute’s forum entitled “Culture Wars: The role of race, gender, ethnicity, [...]
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Day 2 is barely underway and already the storm has reached tropical storm proportions. The WordPress connection is hit or miss this morning and I’m leaving for lunch soon so I won’t go into much detail now. However, I will say this: no one is getting along. What has struck me the most this morning [...]
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Well, Day 1 of the Convention ’08 is over. There’s not a whole lot to report at this point. I didn’t make it onto the Convention Floor today (I arrived to late to nab some credentials), but I can already sense that promises for an interesting and dramatic convention will not go unfulfilled. Reports coming [...]
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