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I was going back through some of my old postings to different threads and I found the live thread of day 2 of the DNC of 2004. This was the day that Obama was the keynote speaker. The comments start at post 1671 and go on through about 1950. Some of the comments I found to be surprising and some prophetic.

Dec 1, 2008 7:34 pm US/Mountain Troopers Have Yet To Be Paid For DNC Overtime DENVER (CBS4) ― Colorado state troopers say it's been more than three months since the Democratic National Convention and they have yet to get compensated for their overtime. The economy is bad and the holiday season is here and the extra money or time off that some troopers counted on has yet to be approved. There seem to be a lot of factors of work in the hold up, including an extraordinary event, troopers were used from around the state, and asking federal government to...

Manuca Salazar came to downtown Denver to protest the war in Iraq on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. The protest ended Aug. 25 with Salazar in police custody for 10 hours. The 22-year-old Denver child-care worker is charged with, among other things, "throwing stones or missiles." She denies it and says she didn't see anyone else throwing rocks, either. "I wasn't violent at all," Salazar said. Salazar is among more than one-third of the demonstrators arrested during the convention who are expected to fight the charges against them. Of 154 people arrested, 29 have pleaded not guilty...

She wasn't the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, but millions of supporters noted her with keen interest on the first night in Denver. Michelle Obama delivered a remarkable speech that made the audience shed tears of joy, and gave a smile of hope with her firm support for her husband, Barack Obama. The leading lady of the first day of the convention, Obama tried to connect with the common American through her personal story. She shared her moments of pains and gains to let everyone know she was not different, but one of them. Throughout her speech, Michelle...

Handlers of the Democrat Convention took pains to finesse protests like those that roiled the 1968 Chicago convention, even erecting a concrete pen to hold protestors. The spectacle of agitators gone ballistic, observed Charles Hurt before the convention, could have reminded the public of Barack Obama's involvement with radicals like William Ayers, the Weather Underground terrorist. "Any images," said Hurt, "reminiscent of radicalism will cement for voters the idea that Obama is a risk not worth taking." Obama may very well succeed in convincing most Americans that he espouses their more moderate, traditional mind-set: According to a recent New York...

Results of a program using Aspen’s Canary Initiative to sell carbon offset credits to Democratic National Convention attendees are a little underwhelming. The program, set up by the DNC Host Committee through the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau and rolled out about a week before the convention started, raised a total of $18.34 worth of Canary Tags...

ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style.

This much is certain: On Friday, a vendor at Invesco Field in Denver discovered dozens of trash bags full of small U.S. flags (about 12,000 in all) that Democrats bought for the crowd at Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. The bags were found among the tons of garbage from "the greenest convention in history." Before they could be buried in a landfill, the vendor collected the flags and turned them over to Sen. John McCain's campaign, which distributed them at a rally in Colorado Springs. The rest of the story is open to interpretation, aka spin,...

Transposed from the comments thread of the Sean Hannity Show [commenter's identities deleted] "The pictures are obviously staged for shock and outrage value" Sean Hannity Discussion » Discussion Topics » Washington Politics Where were the flags at the Democrat's Convention? Where were the flags at the Democrat's Convention? I remember someone here posting about not seeing American flags in the audience at the recent convention.They have been found: http://radarsite.blogspot.com/2008/08/after-hoopla-contempt-of-country.html There's a lot I could say, but I think the pictures tell it all. I think there were a lot of them later on in the convention (specifically at Bam-Bam's...

Democratic Trash: The Story That Just Won't Go Away A note from Radarsite: This is fascinating. As happened before with the Hillary Forum, Radarsite started getting an inordinate amount of hits from an Obama camp website. So we looked into it. If anyone is interested in the differences between the Clinton Dems and the Obama Camp just read these comments, lifted directly from Democratic Underground and compare them with the Clinton Dems responses from The Hillary Clinton Forum reported here in an earlier Radarsite article. Whereas the general consensus from the comments thread at the Hillary Forum was one of...

Democrats are not caring for their Stars and Stripes. At least that’s the message out of John McCain’s campaign. McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday. The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry...

David Harsanyi had a Republican in Denver contact him about what they found in the garbage after the Democratic National Convention:

The McCain Campaign recycled the flags thrown into trash bins at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver last week after the invocation of the Obamessiah. It seems that the disciples of the Obama had no use for the flags after Obama’s performance last week. So they promptly heaved them in waste receptacles. Some were thrown to the ground. The McCain campaign recycled them at a stop in Denver on Saturday in which McCain and Palin dispersed them to Republicans in attendance.

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released four new print ads, two addressing stem cell research and two focusing on abortion.   The ads were initially published in the Capitol Hill newspaper, Roll Call, and were distributed at the Democratic Convention in Denver and at the Republican Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, by pro-life groups. The stem cell research ads highlight scientific advances using adult stem cells that are making embryonic stem cells obsolete. One ad shows a commuter running for a train, and asks: "Science is moving...

The GOP presidential candidate attracted roughly the same number of viewers to his convention acceptance speech Thursday as Obama did before the Democrats last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. It marked the end of an astonishing run where more than 40 million people watched political speeches on three nights by Obama, McCain and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Republican convention was the most-watched convention on television ever, beating a standard set by the Democrats a week earlier.

Grab a beer with... Biggest disappointment... Biggest star.... Freep it. Sarah is biggest star, Biden is biggest disappointment.

Freep this poll: Who had the better convention D's or R's

American presidential politics went from the sublime to the ridiculous within little more than 12 hours last week. Being in the Denver stadium filled with over 80,000 supporters of Democratic Presidential Nominee Sen. Barack Obama last Thursday night, this writer experienced the palpable shared sense of a great moment in time, and the strongest, most refreshing rekindling of the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King in the 40 years since his death. Obama was forceful, eloquent, and not strident but firmly resolved to lead the nation back on the path it abandoned in the years following Dr. King's assassination, toward...

NUREMBERG FILLED WITH NAZIS ON EVE OF PARTY MEETING Nearly a Million Gathering for the Congress – Hitler’s Plans Kept Secret LONDON IS STILL WORRIED Fears Blow in Hitler’s Terms to the Czechs and Thinks Time Limit Has Been Set A stream of singing Nazis marched into Nuremberg yesterday in preparation for the party congress opening today. Although rain was general in Germany, tens of thousands were on the roads. A huge tent city outside the walls will accommodate most of the visitors. Adolf Hitler was expected to make his chief address, defining his foreign policies, at the close of...

PROOF THAT OBAMA DELAGATES KNEW ABOUT BRISTOL, according to a contributor/blogger at obama's official site

For those Democrats who are too young to have a proper appreciation of their party's history, which likely includes most of Senator Obama's supporters, we direct your attention to a memorable moment in DNC history that shows how the current nominee really is connected to the party's past as much as its future. It was forty years ago today that Barack Obama friend and political ally, and unrepentant terrorists, William Ayers was arrested while protesting the DNC proceedings. William Ayers set no bombs that day, but he was only working his way up from petty criminal to domestic terrorist. And...

2004 DNC Schedule Monday Bill Clinton Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) Al Gore Jimmy Carter Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.) Sen. Barbara Mikulski (Md.) Rep. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.) Tuesday Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.) Sen. Tom Daschle (S.D.) Former Gov. Howard Dean (Vt.) Gov. Janet Napolitano (Ariz.) Barack Obama, Ill. Senate Candidate Wednesday Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) Jesse Jackson Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) Gov. Ed Rendell (Pa.) Gov. Bill Richardson (N.M.) Thursday Gov. Mark Warner (Va.) Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.) John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO Sen. Joe Biden (Del.) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) Sen....

DENVER, (AP) -- Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been placed into nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention. Labor activist Dolores Huerta of California put Clinton's name into nomination. She said, "I love and respect Hillary Clinton." Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, campaigned his way into the Democratic convention city Wednesday to claim the presidential nomination won so improbably in winter and spring.

DENVER, (AP) -- Less than an hour before the Democratic convention calls the roll of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton began an emotional gathering with her delegates Wednesday by telling them she was releasing them as delegates to vote for Barack Obama. Many in the crowded ballroom yelled back "No!" Clinton told her delegates she's not telling them what to do, adding: "You've come here from so many different places, having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do." Clinton told her loyal followers: "I want you to know that this has been...

Most prevalent theme during Tuesday night's coverage of the Democratic National Convention, after speculation over healing the Clinton-Obama fued: TV journalists worrying about how the Democrats are not adequately aggressive in their attacks against John McCain as reporters, especially on CBS, repeatedly pressed for more “red meat” and wondered if the speakers are being “hard enough” or “tough enough” on McCain? CBS's Bob Schieffer rued to keynoter Mark Warner that “normally keynote speeches” deliver “a lot of red meat,” but “I didn't hear a lot of that.” Over on NBC, Brian Williams pushed Warner: “You know there's some in the...

Denver -- It was powerful, it was passionate -- and from inside the hall here, it was one killer speech. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton brought the house down with her address tonight at the Democratic National Convention, where it looked to be about a 9-plus on the Richter scale. The insiders had warned that Clinton had to deliver bigtime tonight -- for her legacy, and for her future, as well as for Obama. Deliver she did. Republicans, of course, had their views -- that she delivered evidence that their guy, John McCain, is the only one ready to hit ground...

Barack Obama: The first metrosexual candidate for President of the United States Feet and shoes take center place in Andy Martin's web-footed analysis of the left's effort to demonize Senator John McCain "Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct" AMERICA'S #1 POLITICAL BLOG ON THE 2008 CAMPAIGN ------------------------------------------------------------- We're not always first because we're #1; We're #1 because we are always first. ------------------------------------------------------------- BARACK OBAMA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN'S FEET, OR HE RISKS GETTING THE BOOT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COMMENTS BY KEITH OLBERMANN DO GET THE BOOT FROM ANDY MARTIN METROSEXUAL DEMOCRAT OBAMA SHOULD TREAD LIGHTLY ON MCCAIN'S...

Check out one facet of Barack Obama's "inner circle" -- most of the women shown here represent a hidden inner circle that has played important roles in getting him elected. The Nation of Islam is not just another neighorbood group. Is the Nation of Islam the next one slated to go under the bus? The photograph underscores the virtually ignored role that Louis Farrakhan and his wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, have played in the political rise of Barack and Michelle Obama. From JET Magazine, a powerful Chicago-based publication, July 26, 2004...

Live from the DNC Convention! Today's Guests: Unknown. I'm sure a few drugged-up Democrats talking about "party unity" and Bush's third term. Could be fun. To talk with Sean during his show call: 800.941.7326

DENVER (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton urged her supporters on Monday to unite behind Barack Obama and said Democrats could not afford to let lingering frustrations from their nominating battle hurt Obama's bid for the White House. Clinton, who lost to Obama in a bitter Democratic primary struggle, said the party would emerge united and energized from the nominating convention that opens on Monday -- but acknowledged it would not be easy. "We are after all Democrats, so it may take awhile," the senator told a chanting, sign-waving crowd of delegates from her home state of New York. "We're not the...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will be trading jokes with late night talk show host Jay Leno during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. The presumptive Republican nominee will appear as a guest on the 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno'as Democrats begin the historic nomination process for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Monday night. McCain has been on vacation from the campaign trail since late last week, ahead of his turn to be nominated during the Republican National Convention on Sept. 1-4 at the Excel Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. He plans to hold a rally...

In the past few weeks the media has speculated as to how John McCain could possibly draw attention away from the Democratic Convention and maintain a presence in the headlines. Perhaps by a stroke a genius, the McCain campaign made the decision to shock pundits and Obama surrogates by not drawing attention to himself, but rather by highlighting Democratic Leadership that has blatantly ignored a large portion of their base and alienated over 50% of Hillary Clinton's supporters... But today's release of an ad featuring "Debra" will perhaps prove to be the most damaging to the DNC's Unity Fest. You...

It is ironically appropriate that Jimmy Carter will be one of the first speakers to address the Democratic National Convention. The worst President in recent American history should be present to pass on the baton of naive incompetence to his successor.

WASHINGTON -- Michelle is the Obama who fits in a small room. She does the coffeeklatch to Barack's coliseum. For months now, she's lifted her husband up by downsizing him gently, while grappling with her own critics. Sure, he's the orator who electrifies the faithful by the tens of thousands. But he snores, and smells not so good in the morning. Sure, he's got what it takes to be president, she offers. But he's "just a man." A tall woman with an outsized personality of her own, Michelle Obama has toured the community centers, church basements and ballrooms of the...

DENVER — As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.” The night’s speakers will argue that Obama would be a more effective commander in chief than his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). The former president is disappointed, associates said, because he is eager to speak about...

It was 40 years ago that the most disastrous modern-day national political convention convened in Chicago. The 1968 Democratic convention contributed to Richard Nixon's victory that fall and, in turn, the prolongation of the Vietnam War. It also set the Democratic Party on a course that it has yet to correct... Will Mr. Obama, at the upcoming Democratic convention in Denver, be able to bring Reagan Democrats finally home? I am not counting on it. His Republican opponent, John McCain, has a maverick reputation and an appeal to Reagan Democrats that Mr. Obama will find difficult to match. The Democratic...

When Democrats gather in Denver, Colorado, and Republicans in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, for their political conventions this summer, they'll be taking along with them a big gift from federal taxpayers. Democrats will be holding their convention in Denver, Colorado, at the Pepsi Center. 1 of 2 The Federal Elections Commission has announced that each convention will receive $17 million in taxpayer funds, money approved by Congress as part of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.

Once upon a time, the two parties' national conventions chose presidential nominees. Now they are TV shows that try to establish a narrative — one that links the long-since-determined nominee's life story with the ongoing history of the nation, one that shows how this one man is perfectly positioned to lead America to a better future. The hope is that the nominee will get a bounce in the polls. And the standard-bearers usually do. Gallup poll data show that nominees got a 5% or better bounce from 14 of the 16 national conventions from 1976 to 2004. That's even for...

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MASSIVE Anti-Illegal Immigration Rally at the Democrat Convention! August 25th! We've got some BIG NEWS for you -- the all-star lineup of speakers at the Rally Against Illegal Immigration just got even BETTER! We've just confirmed that Ambassador Alan Keyes, Congressman Bob Barr, and Reverend Chuck Baldwin -- all of them running for U.S. President -- PLUS anti-amnesty hero Rep. Tom Tancredo, will ALL be speaking at the day-long rally, right near the Democratic National Convention! You DO NOT want to miss this event!!!

After Barockstar’s near fatal empty suit performance at Saddleback Saturday, the Obama spin machine is in damage control overdrive. I wonder if they‘ve had time to realize that they have been triangulated by the Clinton war room and set up to take a fall at the DNC convention? That old Clinton war room stench is in the air again… It seems the empty suit and his empty headed staff is not quite up to speed on Clintonian strategeries.

A series of political ads starring the fictional couple back in 1994 helped sour the public's view of President Clinton's plan for universal health coverage. Now, the two are back asking the presidential contenders to make health care their top domestic priority. The latest Harry and Louise ads, starring the same actors as the earlier ads, will run during the Democratic and Republican Party conventions. While the kitchen table scene will look familiar, the concerns they raise will differ. Previously, Louise spoke of rationing _ "you know, long waits for health care and some services not even available." This time,...

Only Sen. Barack Obama knows who he is going to pick for his vice president. Well, that is probably not exactly true. The two Davids’ (Axelrod and Plouffe) and wife Michelle probably know as well. The Drudge Report is suggesting that Obama's pick might become public as early as Tuesday, Aug. 19. In celebration of that event, Drudge is running a poll for readers to guess who that nominee will be, with Sen. Evan Bayh, Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. John Kerry, Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn and a wild card making the Drudge short...

FBI terrorism experts are investigating whether the death of a Somali-born Canadian citizen — whose body was found Monday in a Denver hotel room with about a pound of extremely toxic sodium cyanide — is connected to the upcoming Democratic National Convention. The Denver coroner said the man died of cyanide poisoning. The cause of death was announced Thursday, but authorities haven't determined whether 29-year-old Saleman Abdirahman Dirie committed suicide. An FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has been sent to Denver, although Special Agent Kathy Wright said there's no information to conclude that Dirie had terrorist ties, the Rocky Mountain...

Shotgun Willie's strip club is trolling for some free publicity at former President Bill Clinton's expense. "Bill Clinton, 3 nights only — (Aug.) 25, 26, 27," the strip club's sign on busy Colorado Boulevard declares, referring to the looming Democratic National Convention and the former president who attracted some infamy with his long ago relationship with a White House intern. The sign's other side says: "Welcome Democratic National Convention." Clearly, it's a tongue-and-cheek bid for customers amid the 50,000 delegates, journalists and other visitors drawn by the presidential-nominating fest. "We expect that, given the nature of the business, we're probably...

Missing: 52 years of history. Ignored: The other 113 years that take the Democrats from their birth in 1800 to 1965. As Democrats prepare to nominate Senator Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman Howard Dean have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC website that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial...

DENVER (CBS4) ― Hotels and restaurants in downtown Denver are planning to wine and dine guests in town for the Democratic National Convention with some politically inspired food and drink. Elway's at the Ritz Carlton, that hotel's bar and the Corner Office Restaurant at the Curtis Hotel are among the eateries and watering holes with some creative offerings. The bar at the Ritz Carlton has two special cocktails for DNC guests. The patriotic drink is red, white and blue and called "changing tide." The bar is also offering the Obama Granite Martini. "Guest walks up to the bar, they're going...

Most Memorable Conventions ... Here you'll find the 11 most important convention highlights in modern U.S. political history, a list that will be revealed one by one through Aug. 25. The list is based on our interviews with a dozen political experts. But now it's your job to sample each moment and rate them based on their dramatic value.

Preparing to welcome the Democrats, at a price THE last time Denver played host to the Democratic convention, it pulled out all the stops. A new auditorium was built. Brass bands greeted weary delegates as they arrived at the railway station. Snow was hauled in from the Rocky Mountains so that delegates could cool down with a summer snowball fight. That was in 1908. This year will be even better—and greener. Delegates can cruise around on 1,000 bicycles. A fleet of convention cars will run on “waste-beer” ethanol provided by a local brewery. And the city centre will be covered...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The headline, prime-time speaker during the opening of the Democratic National Convention will be Michelle Obama, the wife of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). The Convention Committee said Michelle Obama will speak Aug. 25, a Monday. She will be followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on Tuesday, the nominee for vice president on the third day, and Sen. Obama on Thursday.