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Aug 27 · They are kept from the entrance by fences and concrete barriers, but the marchers have arrived, and the police are there and mean business. I saw one heavy armored vehicle and there are police wearing body armor and carrying batons, plastic handcuffs and pepper spray guns. I took many pictures, but Elad and I are going to go ahead and go on to the DU meet-up.
It seems pretty clear that there will be at least some arrests outside the Pepsi Center. I am struck by how young most of the marcher
Aug 27 · Wexler speaking right now, but Elad and I are going to head out from the blogger's Big Tent to go in search of the protest march. Wish us luck...
GOBAMA!
Aug 27 ·
C'mon DU! You can do it!
Please kick and recommend this thread so more DUers will see it. Thanks.
Aug 27 · The screams of "AYE!" when the chair called for the voice vote were deafening. The floor is now a mess of dancing, applauding people.
I'm quite pleased that they let my home state get in the second-to-the-last word so that our delegates could give the litany of Dem pols and notables on national TV. What the delegate giving the speech said is true-- New Mexico WILL go blue in 2008 and it WILL be because of our Hispanic and Native American votes.
Aug 27 · was electric. The place went crazy. It's been so loud and crazy in here all day, and when Hillary took the microphone and started speaking, everyone got hushed. When she started the motion to nominate Obama, the whole place cheered and screamed.
When Nancy Pelosi asked if there were any seconds to the motion, the whole place screamed, "YES!" even though we're blocks away from the Pepsi Center! When Pelosi asked for the "AYES", the entire place shouted with the convention-goers.
It was
Aug 27 · MY home state, New Mexico, yielded the floor to Illinois, which yielded the floor to New York. They're letting HILLARY cast the votes!
HUGE ovation...
Smart, smart lady... that albatross is NOT gonna hang around her neck if she can do anything about it. She's asking for the suspension of the rules and selection by acclamation!
GREAT political theater. The Blogger's Dungeon erupts with applause. The ovations on the floor are just going on and on.
Aug 27 · The nomination roll call of states is playing live here in the Blg Tent. Everyone has just erupted in applause as Hillary called for the suspention of the rules casting of all votes for Barack Obama. Some began chanting "OBAMA! OBAMA!" Sen. Clinton is on the floor with the New York state delegation. "Barack Obama will be our president!" "Suspend the procedural rules." The Big Tent erupted in applause several times and now Pelosi has announced that Sen. Obama has accepted the nomination. My under
Aug 27 · I make it to the Bloggers' Dungeon at the Pepsi Center just as the Roll Call is gearing up. My home state, New Mexico, will be casting its vote soon. Everyone is obsessively focused on the screens showing the delegates casting their votes, here.
So far, the unity has been simply amazing and thrilling. Everyone is waiting for New York to vote...
I think New York is gonna come through for us. More in a minute... I have stories to tell, but I'm gettin' too keyed up to type!
Aug 27 · She praised all the work that bloggers have done, and called us "revolutionary agents of change." The remarks were short but it was great of her to take the time to encourage bloggers to keep on keepin' on.
Aug 27 · to applause from all the bloggers, and is now getting a lesson in blogging.
"Don't do it, governor, you'll get sucked in!" I exclaimed. Everyone laughed. They thought I was kidding. :-)
There is a nice sense of comaraderie here in the tent, and I have settled in here for the afternoon to get my pictures posted. They are forthcoming. Then it is off with Elad and hopefully Ava to the DU meet-up. Kudos to HawkeyeX for setting this up. On a not particularly significant note, my mother cal
Aug 27 · The announcement says that he is doing a "live blog" from the Big Tent. I'm not sure where it is being posted, so keep your eyes peeled. He generated quite a lot of interest from the bloggers here at the Big Tent.
Today the heat is a little less oppressing, and I hear it's only supposed to get into the low 80's, which is a huge relief after yesterday. However, the weather report says that tomorrow is supposed to be hot again. Hissyspit and I saw a lot of cool lightning off to the nort
Aug 27 · We spent the morning wandering around downtown Denver and taking in some of the abundant street theater on tap during the Convention:
Pile O' Cops
In spite of a reported 106 arrests yesterday, the abundant law enforcement around seems to have time on their hands for practicing the famous "Pile O' Cops" tableau. I strongly suspect that of the 106 people arrested yesterday, somewhere upwards of ninety were let go immediately. Cops just love paperwork, yanno.
16th Street Mall
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