DISQUS

stealthisbook · 1 year ago

The young are only invited to the boring parties I managed to go to the 2004 convention in Boston when my girlfriend, 19 at the time, was elected as a delegate.  Boy, was that a drag.  I can see why the campaigns are shunning these young activists since 8 hours of uninspired speeches outside of primetime given by up-and-coming party hacks could drive anyone with even a bit of ADD to try to throw a wrench in the works.  We took turns wearing a statue of liberty costume on the convention floor, and she was one of the few unswayable delegates for Kucinich that year.  No way is Clinton or Obama letting that sort of thing happen in such a delicate situation as is likely this year

Truthteller · 1 year ago

It certainly appears as if there are increasing..... ....levels of inside-party hostility and nasty, hardball political gameplaying going on within the democrat party this primary season.  It will be very interesting to see if they can re-unify after trying so hard to tear each other apart.

Rita · 1 year ago

excerpt from: "Let's pray and work for peace..." by Rita Walpole Ague, April, 2008, Colorado Springs, CO, All Rights Reserved   "The city of Colorado Springs is the home of one of the world's  largest military/industrial ("Masters of Space") and spook-laden complexes.  No big surprise, the city never offered an apology to the peace marchers [St. Patrick's Day Parade, 2007] or to Elizabeth [Elizabeth Fineran, the older, disabled who was tripped and dragged in the street until road burned and bloodied] before she died.  No did the city offer an apology to the peace demonstrators it tear-gassed immediately before the war in Iraq began.  Only one other country in the world, Greece, gassed its peaceful demonstrators who gathered in the protest of the U.S. entry into the now infamous war.

  Instead of mending its ways, Colorado Springs continues on its path of allowing no waves to be made, and no voice of dissent to be raised effectively.  De facto segregation exists in the poorly performing public schools.  Spousal and child abuse abounds.  State rankings of forty-seventh and forty-eighth in the nation as to provision for the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill are confirmed with gusto here in the shadow of magnificent Pikes Peak.  And 'slave labor', in the form of women brought here from the islands to work in the area's elegant hotels and motels, goes unnoticed and unmentioned in this anti-union, "America the Beautiful" city.

  Delegates and alternates, elected to go to a Democratic county assembly held in February, 2008, stood outside in the bitter cold, some of them for hours.  They were intimidated and turned away from the assembly in number.  Their complaints went nowhere.  And the state Democratic convention in May, 2008, scheduled to be held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, looms like a larger repeat of the earlier anti-war protest right before the start of the war.  Police are ordered, armed, and ready, and no effective (within "shouting distance") protesting will be allowed on site.  The list of sins goes on and on in this overtly neo-con, 'Christian' heaven."

  So, elected delegates and alternates, and peace demonstrators, hope for the best but prepare for the worst when coming to the Democratic state state convention in Colorado Springs (a.k.a. "Naziville").