Your favorite news organization brings us this no-holds-barred, shooting-from-the-hip, hot-off-the-presses, rip-and-read, up-close-and-personal, insider’s look at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.(If I ever write a lede like that again, I’m going to blow my brains out with a pea shooter.)
Spontaneity has been in short supply since before the time of Bill Clinton, who applied political calculation to his choice of vacation destinations. President Bush's message-control operation is drum tight.Last (and certainly least)…
And are we sure that passionate kiss Al Gore gave Tipper at the 2000 convention wasn't inspired by a focus group telling him to loosen up? Could a kiss really be just a kiss?
_By Calvin Woodward
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Welcome to Denver, a city a mile high and a convention an inch deep.
_By Philip Elliott
The nomination of the first black candidate by a major party for the presidency is a salient moment in the history of a country built on slavery, compounded by an ugly tradition of racism and divisions that exist to this day.Brilliant! Time to belly up to the bar!
_By Nedra Pickler
Update: Towards the end of this story, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...
Pelosi chastised journalists for fixating on conflicts between Obama and Clinton supporters.Gee, you'd never know that from the headline would you (and by the way, on the subject of press wankery, David Gregory of MSNBC, in an interview with John Kerry, asked how Barack Obama "closes the commander-in-chief gap" with John W. McBush...Kerry easily deflected it).
"You know what? This is like a yesterday room," she told the reporters. "We are going into the future. What did I walk into, a time capsule?"
And continuing with more press wankery from Denver, I wonder why CNN doesn't tell us that the guy who posted this is also responsible for this? (CNN's "Republican Strategist" disclaimer doesn't cut it as far as yours truly is concerned).
Update 8/26/08: Uh-huh...
Update 9/3/08: I'd like to find out the answer to this also.
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