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After some technical problems with the Wi-Fi address we are now online,
\n live and direct from the floor of the Democratic National Convention.
\n The photo above was taken this afternoon, from the small stage within
\n the Steel Cage designated as the official Protest Pen. Note the
\n razor wire and mesh netting designed to protect the regular democrats
\n from the protesters.<\/p>\n
Right now, on the podium directly across from our seats, they are introducing
\n the last Presidential candidate the Dowbrigade voted for who actually
\n won – Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n
Of all of the players we have been able to identify so far, the protestors,
\n the police, the party big-wigs, the reporters and the convention organizers,
\n the most charmingly innocent and naive are the delegates themselves. The
\n politicians may be sleazy and cynical, the reporters may be jaded and
\n unscrupulous, but the delegates, the rank-and-file, everyday Democratic
\n delegates, elected by their friends and neighbors in primary elections
\n or selected in statewide caucuses way back in the winter. These
\n are real people, teachers and librarians, farmers and store owners. And,
\n amazingly in
\n this day
\n and age, they still
\n believe in the promise of the City on the Hill, the vision of the Founding
\n Fathers, and the good intentions of the leaders of the only political
\n party they have ever known, most of them, their entire lives.<\/p>\n
Carter has made his slow dignified way to the podium and is about to
\n start his speech. Signing off, for now……<\/p>\n
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After some technical problems with the Wi-Fi address we are now online, live and direct from the floor of the Democratic National Convention. The photo above was taken this afternoon, from the small stage within the Steel Cage designated as … Continue reading