Tingly- February 2, 2008 woohoo! i just saw my first presidential ad of the year. it was for barack, on the news in denver. (and being colorado, it had the irony of being followed immediately by an ad for The Tanner Gun show, famous for being the event where the Columbine killers purchased three of the four guns they used to kill all those kids. how nice. the commercial was appalling. lots of close-up shots of tables strewn with high-powered rifles as submachine guns, and then these displays of knives with curving...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/politics/2008/02/02.html#a1912 Inside the Obama precinct captains' meeting- February 2, 2008 it was illuminating to sit in the obama precinct captains' meeting wednesday, too. not for exactly the reasons i expected. i looked around a lot, and what really caught my eye, over and over, was a cluster of the national staffers, who were mostly standing up along railing. (there were 500-600 precinct captains in that meeting, btw, so it was not an intimate experience. they had driven from all over the state, some six hours or more away. those people must have gotten up around midnight to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/politics/2008/02/01.html#a1910 Adventures in ObamaMania- February 2, 2008 (i wrote this immediately after i got home wednesday, so the timing in it is two days off. and i was too damn tired to capitalize. hehehe):i just got home from obamamania. quite a day. obama campaign to Denver today, and unexpected chaos ensued. the campaign announced on Monday that he would come to Colorado at 10 a.m. Wednesday. They booked a 7,200-seat arena on the University of Denver campus and planned on filling about a third or half of it on a weekday morning with 36 hours notice. they...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/politics/2008/02/01.html#a1909 |