CNN says yes to Denver

CNN has announced it's coverage plans for the Democratic National Convention and it's not petulant at all. Good for CNN, they will cover it all and will then move it all over to Investco for good measure. Good on them.

How dare they!

Jeers to the DNC and the Obama campaign for putting the profitability of the networks in jeopardy!
Now that Invesco Field is on the radar the networks are fretting.

This creates issues for the networks for whom the costly setup, transmission and overall operation of the first three days and nights now might mean moving production of the final night to the Denver Broncos football stadium. Workspaces, anchor locations and all that goes along with a remote network news production would have to be shuffled for the final night.

Poor bastards.

Friday in Unity

Seems that on Friday Senators Obama and Clinton will present their first joint campaign appearance in Unity, NH. Oh, the cute. It's intent, no doubt, is to soothe Clinton supporters and to demonstrate her fealty to the nominee. The news has been out for almost a day now and no one has speculated on how this will effect her chances to be named to the ticket. I am surprised about that. Could this be the first of many joint appearances prior to the convention? I am intrigued.

Oh, and James Dobson is a loon. Listen to him, read his diatribes at your own risk.

Kerfuffle

Quite a little dust up yesterday over the meaning of Patti Solis Doyle joining the Obama campaign as chief of staff for his running mate. What, you say, Obama hasn’t annointed a Vice Presidential candidate yet. That would be true, so what does this appointment mean. Some say, Jerome Armstrong among them, that this bodes well for the selection of Senator Clinton to the ticket, while some, such as this supporter think differently.

"It's a slap in the face," Susie Tompkins Buell, a prominent Clinton backer, said in an interview. "Why would they put somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being considered for the ticket."

Why would the Obama campaign make such a move? Following Solis Doyle’s retirement from Clinton’s campaign (the time with family thing, heh) and her estrangement from Clinton make it hard for me to believe this signals a Clinton VP offer.
Kevin Drum sums it up for me,

If this is true, it's beyond bizarre. Obama has every incentive in the world to make nice with Hillary, and nothing in his past behavior suggests that he's given to gratuitous insults like this. Either the conventional wisdom is wrong, or else there's a much deeper game going on than anyone thinks.

I love drama.

The Party

The name of the party is the Democratic party. It is a measure of disrespect from republicans and so called independents when they call it the Democrat party. Why should I vote for someone who's party is constantly saying that we should stop the partisan bickering when they go out of their way to promote it?

Reagan Democrats. You weren't a Democrat if you voted for Reagan. You were a republican. No more with RD's okay? They weren't Democrats and shouldn't be considered Democrats.