Posted on 07/06/2008 2:09:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Do we really want these chuckleheads running our country?
Some of the Democratic missteps started soon after planning for the event began. The Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental furniture at $50,000 a month. And in a costly misstep, the Denver host committee, early on, told corporate donors that their contributions were not tax-deductible, rather than to encourage donations by saying that the tax-exempt application was pending and expected to be approved.
Overly ambitious environmental goals to turn the event into a "green" convention have backfired as only three states' full delegations have so far agreed to participate in the program. Negotiations over where to locate demonstrators remain unsettled with members of the national news media concerned over proposals to locate the demonstrators with their loud gatherings next to the media tent.
And then there is the food: A 28-page contract requested by Denver organizers that caterers provide food in "at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white." Garnishes could not be counted toward the colors. No fried foods would be allowed. Organic and locally grown foods were mandated, and each plate had to be 50 percent fruits and vegetables. As a result, caterers are shying away.
For the Democratic Party, the danger is that a poorly run convention, or one that misses the mark financially, will reflect badly on the party and raise questions about Democratic management skills. And more worrisome for the Obama campaign is that it will be left with the bill for overruns or fund-raising shortfalls, and that the candidate will have to compete in raising money against a convention effort desperate for cash.
Funny that the “we’re the voice of people” journalists don’t want the actual voices of the people anywhere near their tent. I guess the Democrats will have to move the free speech cages somewhere else.
Anyway, as Ed Morrissey notes:
In some ways, it provides an excellent manifestation of Democratic governance. Underfunded, overspent, and chock-full of unrealistic mandates…
Indeed
i was just looking at an article in the newspaper that reports
$900 million spent so far on the campaigns.
whew!
Hell. You never know where that head's been.
(For the Democratic Party, the danger is that a poorly run convention, or one that misses the mark financially, will reflect badly on the party and raise questions about Democratic management skills.)
One only needs look at the Democrat controlled Congress to see their lack of management skills
How about most of our largets cities?
All Democrat controlled for decades and all bankrupt and failing...
And 48% of the American people still think the GOP is in charge on Congress right now. *sigh*
“do we really want these chuckleheads running our country?
democrats are not chucklehads. they are scu&bags.
scu&bags extraordinaire.
IMHO
This is awesome.
I hope they give Harry Reid alot of time on the podium.
Why did he have to go and insult chuckleheads like that?
Other than blueberries and eggplant, what purple/blue foods do they expect to be served, anyway?
White without black?!?
The party is definitely lacking “gravitas”.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Democrats can’t even run a convention and they want to run the country?
McDonald's Corp.'s 2003 global ad budget was $1.21 billion, which represents measured media only, according to Ad Age, which ranked the company 19th among the world's "Top 25 Global Marketers."
That's just to sell burgers!
http://www.sfalliance.org/media/nrn.html
Don’t worry - George Soros has plenty more where that came from....
How fascists throw a party.
Yes, but that's world-wide, not just in the United States, and McDonald's is the second largest restaurant chain in the world, after Subway.
Yeah, but their intentions are good -- and that's all that matters.
I hope they give Harry Reid alot of time on the podium.
I, for one, think anyone that leans toward voting for Obama that tunes in and watches the Demwit convention will be yanked into a hard core reality check. And, like you, I really hope Harry demands and gets plenty of face/speech/podium time during prime time. I can hear the background music now - "I'm just wild about Harry"
I’d rather McDonalds ran the government than democrats,
at least they wouldn’t give away half the burgers while upping the prices on the other half.
Stalin & Mao always claimed to be for the people. Course 100 million had to be killed, for the people.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Most delegates from the NEA will be carrying buckets of KFC!
that reminds me,
i need a burger!
The ‘rats have done so well with their failed Energy Policy over the last two years.
f’ing idiots.
These ditzoids have no clue ever when they blab their B.S. and it always comes back to haunt them...
I haven't heard hide nor hare of the N.O.W. gang in about ten years. I really think the "Blue Dress" stained their reputation.
There couldn't be a more deserving bunch of losers as the DBM/dems to be completely ignored by the electorate.
A 28 page manual on the food? 50% fruits and vegetables and 100% nuts.
Liberals are imbeciles!
“why did he have to go and insult chuckleheads like that?”
you said it.
“f’ing idiots.”
hey, you forgot psychotic, adolescent, scu&bag, totalitarian, disgusting, duplicitous, oily, self-appointed-brilliant-intellectual, socialist-revolutionary, f’ing idiots.
IMHO
Are you old enough to remember the 1968 and 1972 democrat conventions? What a cluster**** they both were! The riots at the ‘68, of course, and the complete lack of organization at the ‘72: The nominee, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, didn’t even get to accept the nomination ‘til the wee hours of the morning, when next to no one was still watching! Sounds like they may well pul off another disaster this year in Denver?
I’m willing to bet MO is heavily and heavy-handedly involved in the planningand anybody that knows anything is afraid to cross her.
If they did that, you couldn't tell who was who.
As much as I hate McDonald’s food, I’d rather eat their burgers than vote for either idiot running for President at this time.
Boiler plate or statement of fact?
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