This is Big Loo and I am super excited to be covering the DNC and hope to keep you informed about what’s going on .I am staying at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver. As you well know, I am not a fan of Joe ( The Good, Great, Bad and Ugly) Biden, so I’ll leave this city as soon as he speaks.
Sharing a room with a old buddy from NY and our Political Guru, Ms Burnetta Graves, who will be blogging from this city. Magic is in the air and security is tighten than Ft Knox. Had a chance to speak with Brad Thompson and Everette Ward, a super delegate from NC. Both are very hush mouth about what is expected from the Clintons. Had a nice slice of cheese cake and washed it down with a bottle of apple cider/non-alcohol.
What not to expect from me here in Denver. I will not mention gays/lesbians and I will try not to be to cruel to the Clintons. I look forward to seeing some old friends and political colleagues.
I saw a bunch of anti-war activists marching through downtown Denver on this evening even before the Democratic convention get started, waving signs and chanting, “Stop the torture, stop the war. That’s what we’re fighting for.
Hold on and I’ll report more tomorrow, but the speakers tomorrow doesn’t invoke any enthusiastic on my part with the exception of Michelle Obama.
Please post all comments on the blog and not my personal email addresses. Thanks..
Cell phones works great out here.
see ya
August 25, 2008 at 4:10 am
Loo, I have to research on Joe Biden because I have to say that I don’t know much about him.
August 25, 2008 at 9:46 am
My name is Elworth Thompson. I am in Kuwait during contract work.I am from Fayetteville. I have not registered to vote. How can I do that being I am here in Kuwait?
Thanks.
August 25, 2008 at 10:04 am
I disagree with you on Joe Biden. Don’t get me wrong because Joe Biden is a decent guy with a lot of knowledge and experience, but I think Obama made a bad choice. Even if Biden helps on the national security, Catholics, Latinos and blue collar crowd, he still leaves a big hole with the Hillary supporters all over the country.
I think McCain could really capitalize on Obama/Biden by picking a woman. Think about it: Not only would a woman help McCain with all women, it would also be more difficult for Biden to really go after her in their debate because that would not look good for the Democrats to have him up their assailing a woman when they have already angered so many women by not picking Hillary.
I don’t see McCain being that smart though. Republican men have a tendency to go with (typical elitist Republicans).
Biden’s experience with international affairs is heralded with his title, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee . Biden knows how to play the important vice presidential role of attack dog, as he did during the debate over Supreme Court nominees Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork so he may help Obama by attacking McCain and the Republicans.
And how is the air out in Denver?
August 25, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Loo, I think there will be a lot of contention at that convention. Hillary Clinton’s fans are going to watch carefully to see how she is treated, and if Obama is as smart as he appears to be, he’ll be very gracious.
That said, if John McCain picks a woman for his VP running mate, Republicans will win!
TJ
August 25, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Loo, We will get there Wednesday AM. What is your cell number?????
August 25, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I am glad you guys are there. I feel almost there myself.
Keep up the good work guys.
August 25, 2008 at 11:43 pm
McCain most likely will pick Mitt Romney or Giuliani. There is a slight chance he would pick Lieberman, but we know how that helped Al Gore in 2000. I hope this convention comes off without a hitch. I see the gallup polls are tied 45% to 45%. They are not counting the thousands of new voters that will sign up between now and October. I found voters who never had an interest before signing up.
August 25, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Yeah, but I agree with Kim, if McCain chose a woman…Obama could be in big trouble and listening this morning to the black folk on TJMS, allot of them are already jumping off the bandwagon and talking about voting for McCain because Obama chose Biden. I think that is the most stupid thing I’ve heard during this entire election process so far.
Why in the world would they do that. Now I was a Hilary fan, however, there is no way I would vote for McCain because Obama chose Biden. Biden will be the Vice Prez not the Prez and Lord if we vote McCain in we may as well just let Bush stay. WTD? I hope this nonsense will pass shortly! A lot of Hillary supporters are saying they will vote for McCain as well. What a waste of a perfectly good civil right!
August 25, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Its ridiculous they way they are acting and why hasn’t Hillary turn her delegates over to Barrack as a show of Party unity? I heard she’s going to wait until Wednesday.
September 1, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I’m back and finally rested from the AWESOME Democratic National Convention in Denver!
I managed to pull off the incredible feat of getting credentials for both Wednesday (Clinton, Kerry & Biden Speeches) and the most historic night Thursday (Gore, Richardson, and Obama speeches).
I took lots of pictures and movie clips. I met political leaders, media folks, entertainers, and citizens from all over the world. This was the adventure and experience of a lifetime. Denver was only the beginning. The journey continues to Election Day and if all goes well, the next historic event I’ll be sharing with you will be about me at Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. Today I made my reservations for the January 20 Inauguration. I am REALLY thinking positive.
Check out some of my favorites…
Jenniifer Hudson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw7ZRYNyOek
My boy Stevie rocked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvTO9tATBk
http://my.barackobama.com/barackspeech
Karma, as you know, is a thing you don’t want working against you so when Focus on the Family (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/12/focus-on-the-family-asks_n_118512.html?page=14) asked for it to rain on Obama’s parade they prayed to the wrong god! The entire Gulf Coast will be paying the price and now there will be little or no attendencae at the Republican Convention.
Plus once again these Repubs are not the party of Decency. Look at the presumtive VPs daughter. What a disgrace!
Your next mission is to get out the vote by any means necessary. Register an out of state friend to vote in the state that they are in right now! Register a young retail employee from Best Buy, McDonalds, Burger King etc. Volunteer at your local Democratic or Obama Office. Donate time, money, lunch ANYthing to them!
Yes, We Can!
With love, peace and HOPE
September 3, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Okay GreatThinker,
You have ranted and raved about ghetto hoodrats having babies and not being married, so now we are stuck with a governor’s daughter being pregnant. I wonder if she was screwing in the Gov’s mansion? No, Alaska’s Governor’s Mansion Is Not a Double-Wide Trailer, but I know trailer trash all over America is rejoicing. I wonder if the baby’s father is her cousin?
Palin is really starting to sound like a gadfly loose cannon. Not a “maverick.” A loose cannon flake who can mask it pretty well most of the time, but it won’t stand up well in the glare of the national media spotlight. Alaska is not the big leagues, and Palin isn’t ready for prime time.
It seems like a stupid decision to me. He is fishing or getting drunk. She is running for vice president. Who is taking care of the children? They sound pretty trashy to me, straight out of the trailer park
October 17, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I reside in Jacksonville, FL, and there is a billboard that states that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republician and to vote Republician. It insuitates that Martin Luther King Jr would’ve voted Republician. No one knows how Martin Luther King Jr would’ve voted and I think it should be taken down.
October 30, 2008 at 5:59 am
I live in Chicago, (Cook County). This is Obama country. We don’t have to worry about any dirty tricks here. In Illinois, we have 102 Counties and almost half the people that live in IL, lives in Cook County. I also voted early to avoid any long waits.
July 25, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Daniel Bruno Sanz would like to share his Huffington Post essay with you;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-bruno-sanz/obama-2012_b_234874.html
Please post it on your website and send your link to us for inclusion at DanielBrunoSanz.com
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Regards,
Navas
Here are the keyords in the essay:
13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani’s, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics
Prologue to Obama 2012
We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.
I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world.
By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can’t Win.
Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn’t stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama’s chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.