well I have to say that the introductory video started out fantastic; hard to imagine a better into than michelle's mom speaking her story. I thought Obama cheesed it up and blew it with his ice cream story though. Mom came back … [Read more...]
Archives for August 25, 2008
Ted Kennedy made it.
Massachusetts delegate Carol Donovan.Delegate Steve Driscoll told me: "I was diagnosed with cancer at the same time [Kennedy] was, and his strength inspires me."He inspires me too, Steve. (More from the Globe.) … [Read more...]
Thank you, Governor Patrick, for your choice
Like Lt. Gov. Murray, Governor Patrick will be missing a big night honoring Senator Kennedy. But Gov. Patrick will also be making the lengthy roundtrip tonight and then back tomorrow right before his own nationally televised convention … [Read more...]
Jamie Eldridge is in Denver??
Curious thing about the convention: It gathers more of the major Massachusetts Democrats in one place than just about any event in Massachusetts -- including the Mass Dems convention. We ran into State Rep. and State Senate candidate Jamie … [Read more...]
Random video profile: Brianna Cayo Cotter
I thought it would be fun to post quickie interviews of interesting people we run into here in Denver. Here's our first: Brianna Cayo Cotter, who happened to be sitting across from me inside the Big Tent. She is with … [Read more...]
Update on the Twitter feeds
As you can see, we do still have a Twitter feed posted on the right-hand sidebar. However, we were experiencing technical difficulties with having three individuals feeds (one for each of us) in there. So there is now one shared … [Read more...]
Wandering the streets of downtown Denver
Today has been something of a comedy of errors, which I suppose is to be expected at an event like this -- confusing emails about where to pick up the all-important credentials, and garbled cell-phone messages leading to the three of us … [Read more...]
“The first sign of dementia appeared…”
UPDATE: Have added "President Putin of Germany" and "Confuses Somalia & Sudan" at the bottom. McCain Moments Unaware that Czechoslovakia no longer exists. twice The "Iraq/Pakistan" border. Confuses Sunni & Shia, Al Queda & … [Read more...]
Chatting up the Lt. Gov.
Al Gore endorses John Kerry with poignant ad
There are no exaggerations in that ad! It is a lesser known fact that John Kerry's first foray as an activist was not to protest the Vietnam War. It was when he participated in the very first Earth Day in 1970, in Massachusetts, … [Read more...]