…and here you thought I was gone. Silly boys and their toys! Saddle up and let’s get rocking. Don’t mind the tutu. Just cause it’s pink doesn’t mean a thing. If anything, it’s more manly than anything I’ve got on right now.
Right. Before the almighty Goldstein returns I figured I might start this conversation. I don’t see it covered here yet and if I repeat something…I apologize for nothing. Unless it affects my image than I might think about it. But I’m only gonna think about it o’tay?
Very well. Onto our discussion at hand. 2008 heralds the one (in my honest opinion) smart move the Democratic Party (my old party when Gore was running) has made in the last few months since they won the power of doing something rather than butting heads with all those damn stuffy suits in the House. They decided that Denver, Colorado was the place to do the next convention. And not just any convention. The convention that will decide who is who and what it what.
That and the Cage Match with Obama and Senator Clinton is being billed as a no holds barred match. They might even get Hulk Hogan to guest referee. That’d be something. Given Obama’s recent pictures from the beach (isn’t he a sexy man?) and Clinton’s…well, she’s a smart girl. Something tells me People isn’t looking for pictures of her in a bathing suit. I haven’t asked them for confirmation but I’m not holding my breath.
More specifically this new idea of taking the convention to the Mid-West (more like fair to middlin’ as we’re not in the midwest. We’re west and mid but somehow we’re never included in this. Someone’s getting sued for that mix up) has the potential for some real fire being lit within the Democratic Party and getting people from all the states that are not New York (can I say how stupid it would have been if they picked NY again? I was hoping they might and prove me right, but they foiled me. Dang you Democrats!) and making this whole political process a little more exciting by getting more of the population involved. In my opinion I see the current field holding Bloggers,
The Players and maybe some of their fans. Bloggers are always fun to read until they get angry, nasty and downright mean (the right and left are guilty of this).
The Players (read: those vying for power) are sometimes exciting but they’re never really close enough to reach out and touch. With this whole idea of a convention in the middle of the States there is real potential for some good people to get involved and slap the Democratic Party into action. Like telling them to have a plan, platform and long term goals for the people they serve. They’re starting that slowly but I fear they may get stuck in the whole, “I HATE BUSH!†thing that a few of the far left Democrats have already started doing in interviews and television spots.
This is the best move for the Democratic Party right now. The only problem is if they can make the next year or so the foundation heading into a powerful convention. I will say if Kerry shows, all bets are off.
As a side note, I’m coming home to Denver for good in February. I would love to find myself at the Democratic Convention in 2008 to cover it for my blog or even better yet PW if they’d let me. It’d be a kick in the pants to behind the lines of old friends turned enemies. It’d be a hoot. Or something.
Maybe in a past century. Today the conventions are heavily scripted performance art. Fat chance of the hoi polloi have of joining in the festivities as anything other than obedient extras.
Er, fat chance the hoi polloi have…
PIMF
I’m new here, but who is this “Goldstein” who’s return has been whispered about. Is he some kind of Godot who though he never returns is in fact present in some obscure, absurdist way. Or is he in fact real and whose appearance will only muck up your excellent site in some sort of Icemanish way. I just hope he minds his p’s and q’s (if he is indeed real).
Anyway, I’ve enjoyed your site these past few weeks and don’t much fancy changes.
Angie,
No, Jeff Goldstein is not real, but he is the proprieter of this site. He’s been on hiatus for a while, off chasing rainbows.
If he ever does gome back and regain control again, I think you will find him to be very provocative, and, more importantly, completely off the wall.
We do miss him so…
Angie, I imagine that once this Goldstein fellow returns you will have a far different feeling about the guest bloggers. When you recall this time, your mind will play that trick of condensing in which new knowledge imposes itself upon that which we thought we knew. And in this reverie you will see the guest bloggers surrounding you in dark hooded robes. Their faces obscured; yet you will know each by name. There is is Karl and beside him Darleen and cranky-d and BRD and Beck and to the left Dan Collins and again Dan Collins because he is so prolific. The guests bloggers will be chanting, quietly at first so that you can barely make out the sound. The sound becomes a murmur then a whisper. You can make out the words now. You have heard them before but now in this context they fit as if written just for this moment of your awakening. The words are plain in your hearing now. Each guest blogger in turn pulls back the hood and stares directly at you. Screaming now in unison you mouth the words along with them:
Silence then by all but The Sanity Inspector who, as most cursed among the host, moans the refrain:
When it is over you will secretly blush that a grown woman could have ever had such foolish childhood notions as you do do today.
who cares where the convention is being held in 2008? With the shape the both Republican party and John McCain find themselves in, the convention could be held in Port Au Prince and the nominee be Donald Duck and the Dems would win in a landslide…
http://www.minor-ripper.blogspot.com
More like Zardoz really…..
Goldstein is Big Brother!
I would think if the convention were held in Port Au Prince and the GOP nominee Donald Duck, the Dems should win in a landslide. Running against a fictional duck, backed by a party who thinks it a good idea to hold a convention in Haiti, and all.
Not sure you picked the best example there, chief.
As for 2008, I’m looking forward to covering the convention. As a CITIZEN JOURNALIST, it is my duty. Plus, I’m hoping some of the lefty bloggers who like to talk smack about me show up. So I can shake their hands and the like.
Can I be your bodyguard…or something? I mean I know my writing sucks and all, but can ya give me something…anything? Spit shining the shoes and the ground you walk on?
Damn you Goldstein. You never returned my mailed missives or my late night phone calls.
Sorry, but I googled my name and found all my old posts here. I figure I should actually, ya know…start reading this place again. :)