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Posted at 2:28pm on Jul. 7, 2008 "Because this is your convention, not mine, I'm holding an event that is even more about ME than anything else we've done yet"

You can come, maybe, if you keep giving me money and promise to cheer loud enough, or faint.

By Jeff Emanuel

Well, it's official: Barack Obama will be accepting the Democratic nomination for President at Invesco Field at Mile High, the 75,000-seat open-air home of the Denver Broncos, rather than at the convention hall as originally planned.

Campaign manager David Plouffe said the following in an email:

At the Democratic National Convention next month, we're going to kick off the general election with an event that opens up the political process the same way we've opened it up throughout this campaign.

Barack has made it clear that this is your convention, not his.

On Thursday, August 28th, he's scheduled to formally accept the Democratic nomination in a speech at the convention hall in front of the assembled delegates.

Instead, Barack will leave the convention hall and join more than 75,000 people for a huge, free, open-air event where he will deliver his acceptance speech to the American people.

It's going to be an amazing event, and Barack would like you to join him. Free tickets will become available as the date approaches, but we've reserved a special place for a few of the people who brought us this far and who continue to drive this campaign.

If you make a donation of $5 or more between now and midnight on July 31st, you could be one of 10 supporters chosen to fly to Denver and spend two days and nights at the convention, meet Barack backstage, and watch his acceptance speech in person. Each of the ten supporters who are selected will be able to bring one guest to join them.

This is simply the next logical step in a campaign that has been all about one man and his quest for adulation and power.

Opening up the political process? Only by pun are they doing that; the rest is simply another manufactured event for a manufactured candidate. The way they're "opening up the process" here is as they've done it to this point -- by bringing more people in to sit and listen to Obama talk (and have the opportunity to faint, I suppose).

"This is your convention, not his"? Only if you're a willing member of the Obama cult of personality. If you're not -- say, for example, you're a Clinton delegate, as almost half the assigned delegates are -- then an event like this has to feel like an attempt to drown you out, if not to exclude you altogether.

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Posted at 1:11pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Obama to accept nomination in Broncos backyard... and so I weep

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

The Detroit News reports this afternoon that the Barackstar will accept the Democratic nomination for President at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver.

Mile High is the third holiest site for orange and blue fans everywhere, behind only the old Mile High (which physically shook every Sunday afternoon in the presence of number 7) and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego where the Broncos won their first Superbowl.  

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Posted at 4:11pm on Jun. 25, 2008 The Greenest political convention in the Whole Wide World!

Dems seek biodegradable fanny packs.

By Mark Kilmer

Rupert Murdoch, a devout greenie himself, owns the Wall Street Journal, which reports that it's not easy being green. The WSJ tells us those Dems planning the Denver mob event convention "are discovering the perils of trying to stage an event that's also politically and environmentally correct."

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: "That just doesn't exist."

Ditto for the baseball caps. "We have a union cap or an organic cap," Mr. DeMasse says. "But we don't have a union-organic offering."

They blame Denver's Dem Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is both named 'Hickenhooper' AND has challenged the Dems to organize "the greenest convention in the history of the planet." So the Dems hired an environmental activist to be their first-ever Director of Greening. I'm not making it up.

Now, she must pull it off.

To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.

Perhaps Ms. [Greening Director Andrea] Robinson's most audacious goal is to reuse, recycle or compost at least 85% of all waste generated during the convention.

How does one reuse… oh, never mind. These people are freaks.

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