Let's hear it, folks. Your blogging team has got the whole stadium covered, from the floor to the galleries to the blogging pool room in the skyboxes. Here is the view from Bob's seat with the Massachusetts delegation: Here is the view … [Read more...]
Archives for August 28, 2008
August 28
August 28 is an extraordinary day in American history. Fifty-three years ago today, Emmett Till was murdered. His murderers were acquitted by an all-white jury; they later admitted having done it. That murder, and the … [Read more...]
BMG has Invesco covered!
We've got the whole scene covered here, folks. Bob is down on the floor sitting with the Mass. delegation, only a few yards from the podium. Charley is up in the nosebleed seats with the folks who have "community credentials" … [Read more...]
CSPAN is showing brief speeches by ordinary Americans
I am completely loving that these ordinary people are getting up and speaking with great urgency and passion to a packed football stadium about their hopes and fears. CNN of course can't be bothered to show them... it's all talking … [Read more...]
Send a text to us at Invesco!
If you're on your cell, take a second to text "DNC - Deval Patrick" to 62262, and we might get it up on the big screen at Invesco. :-) … [Read more...]
This morning with the MA delegation — McGovern, Wilkerson, jazz, and more
This morning's breakfast with the MA delegation -- the first one we actually heard all of (they start at a brutal 7 a.m.) -- was quite a show. The breakfasts run about two hours, and are jam-packed with Democratic dignitaries both … [Read more...]
Random video profile: Melissa Diaz
The latest in our series of video profiles of interesting people we run into here at the convention. Melissa Diaz is a student at Columbia University, a former student of BMG's own Bob, and a passionate Obama supporter who has far … [Read more...]
Live from Invesco field — here’s the alleged “Barackopolis”
After walking through a very, very long line (which actually moved pretty well) I've made my way into Invesco field. At the moment I am blogging from a blogger area which is in the glassed-in press box way above the field. I … [Read more...]
The Sino Soviet Rift Lives On; Thanks Dick!
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization waqs founded in 2001 as a sort of post-cold war successor to the Warsaw Pact as a security "club" of non-NATO nations. It hasn't really ever done anything, but there exists the implicit threat … [Read more...]
Senator George McGovern Addresses MA Delegation
This morning at the Massachusetts delegation breakfast. "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts." … [Read more...]