http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/2008dncconvention/ en-us Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:41:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097958/posts ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people. The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness. It is an amazingly powerful format,... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097958/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097351/posts More relevant are the baroque delegate rules and strong-arm tactics that helped him to victory. A recent Associated Press story glibly proclaimed that “deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House.” The story relied on an AP-Yahoo poll that posed questions regarding race to white Democrats. One is left to wonder why questions regarding race were not posed to black Democrats ... It’s quite troubling, really, that mainstream media outlets are focusing upon “racial misgivings” factors, while all but ignoring the major divides among voting constituencies that occurred during the nominating contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097351/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 13:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096981/posts Anyone remember several months ago, when Barack Obama grabbed the Democrat Party’s nomination for President? The press and airwaves were full of the screams of rage from Hillary supporters who were certain, certain! That the nomination had been stolen from Ms. Clinton. All that we could see on TV for weeks were outraged women – and a few metrosexual men – staring wildly into the camera and screaming that Hillary had been cheated and been disrespected and “thrown under the bus” by Obama supporters. Nightly TV news began to look like sessions of the Massachusetts Legislature debating raising their own... The Nav Log http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096981/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:22:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082678/posts Results of a program using Aspen’s Canary Initiative to sell carbon offset credits to Democratic National Convention attendees are a little underwhelming. The program, set up by the DNC Host Committee through the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau and rolled out about a week before the convention started, raised a total of $18.34 worth of Canary Tags... Aspen Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082678/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:22:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082834/posts Results of a program using Aspen’s Canary Initiative to sell carbon offset credits to Democratic National Convention attendees are a little underwhelming. The program, set up by the DNC Host Committee through the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau and rolled out about a week before the convention started, raised a total of $18.34 worth of Canary Tags, offsetting 0.9 tons of carbon emissions. The Aspen Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082834/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:41:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082513/posts Just before the big summer hiatus, I wrote this column for National Review, which we never got around to posting on line. Its observations about the weakness of the Obama candidacy still seem relevant: The conventional wisdom on the Clintons was promulgated by my then senator, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, back at the end of the impeachment trial. “He’s won,”' said Senator Smith, after dutifully if vainly casting his vote to nail Slick Willie’s puffy butt. “He always wins. Let’s move on.” They won through the Nineties. The Clintons’ Democratic Party was great for the Clintons, lousy for the... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082513/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:22:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081744/posts Much has been made of the Democratic Party’s new platform plank on abortion. Jim Wallis has hailed the new language as “an historic step forward.” Is it? Well, Sen. Obama says that “words matter,” so let’s examine the actual words. It is true that the Democrats did add language stating that the party “strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.” This is good to know and does provide a certain moral symmetry to their promotion... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081744/posts#comment Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:59:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079970/posts "We believe that the The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a grave error by depriving American voters of their choice of Hillary Clinton as Democratic nominee. Senator Clinton, by all accounts, except caucuses, won the Primary Election and, therefore, should be the 2008 Democratic Nominee. That didn't happen, due largely to illegitimate and illegal acts. . . . This documentary is about the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign. . . . We want to be heard and let the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are... Silenced 2008 channel on YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079970/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:01:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080428/posts The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to "start slamming down some phones." Camille Paglia suggests, "Be boring!" Meanwhile, a posse of Democratic lawyers, mainstream reporters, lefty bloggers and various other Obamaphiles are scouring the vast tundra of Alaska for something, anything, to bring down Sarah Palin: her daughter's pregnancy, her ex-brother-in-law problem, her $60 per diem, and now her religion. (CNN reports — news flash! — that she apparently has never spoken in tongues.) Not since Henry II... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080428/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:13:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079846/posts It is long been traditional for living ex-presidents to be invited to address their party’s quadrennial convention during presidential election years. The fact that Jimmy Carter was not invited to give the traditional address was no accident. Nor is it true, as Jimmy Carter has falsely claimed, that it was he who made the decision not to speak to the convention. The Democratic Party, and its leaders, made a deliberate decision not to invite Jimmy Carter precisely because they so fundamentally disagree with the bigotry toward Israel and its Jewish supporters that he displayed both in his mendacious book Palestine:... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079846/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:23:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076697/posts Video at link youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076697/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:40:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077725/posts <p>To follow up on the previous report, I spoke today with the Public Information Officer from the Denver Police Department. The PIO confirmed what I had learned when speaking with other PD personnel two days ago -- that the DemocRATic National Committee has not made a police report regarding thousands of stolen flags after their little Greek tragedy in Denver.</p> Denver PD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077725/posts#comment Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:36:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077757/posts THE AUSTIN HILL RADIO SHOW -- ON NOW -- 630 WMAL, WASHINGTON, DC DISCUSSING THE 12,000 FLAGS LEFT AT INVESCO FIELD BY THE DEMS AFTER OBAMA'S 'CORONATION' LISTEN LIVE: http://www.630wmal.com/Article.asp?id=453473 http://radiotime.com/station/s_30888/WMAL_630.aspx 630 AM - WMAL, Washington, D.C. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077757/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:14:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076770/posts Democrats are employing a diversionary tactic to defend themselves against the charge that they trashed thousands of American flags used at the grand finale Greek Temple event at Invesco Field. Here's how it works:To make the accusers look ridiculous, they publish pictures like the one on the left, showing flags bundled up in trash bags. This is a real picture, and I don't doubt they indeed were packaging them for later use. This is the diversion. Ordinary Americans hear the story and are outraged, but then see the picture and think "oh, that's not so bad."This first bit of... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076770/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:01:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076622/posts Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., his wife, Jill, center, and Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applaud during talk on the final night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076622/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:53:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076443/posts THE STORY FROM ABC IN DENVER As many of you have heard, there is a flag controversy between the Republicans and the DemocRATS. The RNC is claiming that it save about 12,000 Americans flags leftover from Invesco Field in Denver. The claim is that they were headed for the dumpster. The DemocRATS are claiming that the flags were "stolen" and never intended for the dumpster. They claim that they were in storage and were either to be used again or donated. If 12,000 flags were stolen, I would think that a police report would have been filed. In a... Denver PD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076443/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:31:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076414/posts It seems Fox News and some far-right blogs are excited about the latest in a series of lies from the McCain campaign -- the notion that thousands of American flags from the Democratic convention were going to be thrown away. Like far too many of the stories pushed by the McCain campaign, and embraced by Fox News and far-right blogs, it's not true. ----snip--- "All of the flags at Invesco were picked up and put in bags and into storage, along with the unused flags and campaign signs. The flags were going to be donated, and the signs were going... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076414/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076334/posts Democrats are not caring for their Stars and Stripes. At least that’s the message out of John McCain’s campaign. McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday. The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076334/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 23:03:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076204/posts David Harsanyi had a Republican in Denver contact him about what they found in the garbage after the Democratic National Convention: All American Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2076204/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076187/posts Hundreds of flags that were discarded by the DNC and headed to the trash were rescued and are being given out today at the McCain-Palin Rally in CO. It is unclear as to how the flags were discovered, some were reportedly discovered by a vendor by a dumpster. The flags were stuffed into dozens of black garbage bags and others were crammed into a supply closet awaiting disposal...Developing details... FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076187/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:31:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076122/posts This will not sit well with many. Here’s a rundown of my night at convention: 2:55 p.m. — After a long walk, I reach the huge white tents where we have to go through the scanning and search routine. There are dumpsters filling up with stuff people can’t take into the stadium. I notice umbrellas and even American flags thrown in the trash cans. (Ironically, everyone inside was handed an American flag.) This story is now breaking. Bob Parks: Black & Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076122/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076124/posts It was planned down to the most minute detail. The food, the biodegradable paper signs and banners, everything was planned to delight the greenest of green environmentalists. Along the way, they forgot just one minor thing, the Red White and Blue. On the floors of convention halls, our Colors were trashed and abandoned. Workers, Boy Scouts, and perhaps even a few embarrassed Democrats had to clean up the mess. The metaphor should be evident to all, and it is a shame that our Boy scouts have to witness such disrespect to our country and its flag. I hope they take... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076124/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:57:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076114/posts John McCain’s presidential campaign appears prepared to chastise Democrats over leaving behind piles of miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver. Boy Scouts reportedly have arrived with at least two dozen trash bags full of the flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. in Colorado Springs. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076114/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:49:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076141/posts At a campaign event at 11:00AM PST Boy Scouts will recycle 12,000 American Flags that were thrown in the trash after the democratic convention. Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076141/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076087/posts This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin. Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story. “What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076087/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:10:45 GMT