Sounds like a great time- enjoy!

Hi Jane! What… No plug for Coors?

Amato, IMHO, showed remarkable restraint – I’d a just punched DANGERSTEIN in the nose…

;~P

I’ve been thinking of and missing Hunter a lot of late. I so wish he was around to share his insights during this election cycle. The best tribute to him is to Let The Good Times Roll (and crush McCain in November).

That’s [dangerstein] for you, though — asking all the pretty ladies “where’s the beer?” And John is absolutely right, he needs to denounce and reject RGJoe. Otherwise, who’s to know he’s not a mole?

From the description, he looks like a mole.

Much looking forward to more dispatches, Jane!

I don’t get the Six Flags thing. ?

Or, in tribute to the Good Doc, get credentials for the Repub Convention, and do it up in full-blown Fear and Loathing style…

Hey, Jane, have you seen Swopa? Has he got his wish? I know he believes in keeping up attacks, so he should be pleased with Biden. Most of all, he should have been pleased with Biden’s speech yesterday. I say, more of the same, please. I want to see our candidates take it to McLame, for a change! What do you think?

JANE!

Congrats to Kobe. Can he have a gold tag like his namesake?

Did you stay up all night to watch the game???

gotta run – nasty lightening comin’ fast.

Have a great time!

The Republicans have actually included fear and loathing in their platform this year, haven’t they?

The Republicans have included Fear and Loathing in just about every platform they’ve produced back to 1948. Only the persons and/or groups to be feared and loathed have changed.

Jane, have a great Convention. Looking forward to your reports.

Giuliani is (WaPo article) that Obama did not choose Hillary Clinton as the VP. He says that this will hurt Obama’s chances in the general election. So nice of the WaPo to give him a platform so soon on that heartfelt advice.

Yes, if there is anybody whose advice we should heed on Democratic election strategy, it is the Republican convention keynote speaker, and Mr. 9/11 himself, Rudy-Rudy-Rudy. More honestly, Giuliani wanted no part of Biden in this race, and now “a noun, a verb, and 9/11″ will get replayed all this week.

By Giuliani’s logic, it becomes imperative that McCain pick Romney as the VP, since passing up the runner-up to the nomination is a sign of weakness for the nominee himself.

They are showing the protest on C-span. The “Recreate 1968 March”.

Great to hear from you, Jane!
How wonderful to have the FDL crew to give us the real story.
Cheers, and have fun!

When is the pillow fight scheduled?
I want video, BTW.

JokeLine?
Dangerstein?

Somebody should have vetted the guest list.
At least the scumbags are out numbered.

Give ‘em Hell Janie!

Apparently Rudy reads Kristol; or they each have the same mind-set vis a vis runner-up gets veep.

Elitches is a Six Flags Amusement Park.

The original Elitch Gardens was a great old timey amusement park, but it sold out to Six Flags and the old site redeveloped as homes, condos, and a strip mall. The old carousel structure still exists, and the old Elitch Theatre is being renovated. The new Elitches is in the Platte Valley, a stones throw from convention central.

If you want to visit an amusement park in Denver, go to Lakeside — turn of the century park, with a train ride around Lake Rhoda.

Hey Jane – welcome to Denver
Why is everyone jumping up and down about some disenchanted Hillary voters?
Hell the rethugs are having competing conventions in Minneapolis next week

The Republicans have actually included fear and loathing in their platform this year, haven’t they?

well yes – throw in a little faux Christianity, and that’s pretty much the *entire* platform.

So the convention should be covered by highly trained practitioners of the art of Gonzo Journalism, in order to properly portray the insanity, imo.

My how time flies. SteveAudio’s party seems almost like yesterday.

I’m beginning to warm to Biden, ever so slightly. If he’s willing to go all out as an attack dog I could even love him.

My reservations about Obama and Biden pale alongaide my loathing of McCain and the bought-and-paid-for press whores who support him.

We have boots on the ground.

Except that Romney isn’t really the runner up in the GOP contest; Huckabee is. So picking Mitt really is a sign of weakness for McCain: it shows his fear of the shock troops that are the fundie Base.

Last Friday, as Obama delayed announcing his VP pick to savor an extra day of McCain’s house gaffe (Gated Community-Gate?), I turned to my wife and said, “I know who Obama’s going to choose for VP.”

“Really?”

“It’ll be the one with the fewest houses.”

Given that Biden is listed as one of the least wealthy of US Senators (despite the largesse of MBNA), I don’t think I was too far off.

Question: Has Biden renounced his 2002 IraAUMF

WRT to Jokeline’s recent sane columns, I guess even a stopped clock knows what side of his bread is buttered on…or or whatever.

Accidentally clicked before finishing my question:

Has Biden renounced his 2002 Iraq AUMF vote unequivocally?

Can’t either party find someone living in a log cabin somewhere to make Veep?

Yes — long ago. IIRC, he was one of the first in the Senate to do so. He also voted with Feingold against the FISA amendments.

Well he said that the whole authorization should be withdrawn by congress, does THAT count?

Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph are otherwise engaged.

I think “Teefs” loves to hear himself talk too much and has an iffy record, especially when it comes to his voting record but if he starts using his sharp elbows and starts throwing down on McStain and the Rovian bastards running his campaign, I would be delighted.
Start in with some nasty shit and end with some even nastier shit.
Put those bastards on defense for once.

and the bought, fed and paid for press whores …..

(fixed it for you)

Voting records are a problem for all of these guys- and the “art” of filleting the record to make is show about anything is well known. It would be a standoff at best if it starts…McBush has been around long enough to have voted for nearly everything including infanticide at one time or another.

well maybe sneakers and sandles

Teddy upstairs

I doubt if there are any quasi-Gonzo journalists available who are as adept as Hunter at engaging in felonious behavior while avoiding legal entanglement (for the most part). In addition, you’d probably have all the resources of the DHS converging on St. Paul to protect all those Republican stall-warts. Remember, they’re only trained to ignore criminal behavior by members of the GOP.

There’s a good trivia question, to which I don’t have the answer.
Who was the last VP nominee who lived in a log cabin? Who was the last presidential nominee?

Thanks (ditto, rwcole). That’s a measure of reassurance, and a wedge for promoting Biden’s judgment over Hillary’s.

OMG
All my favorite writers and bloggers and activists TOGETHER,
and IN MY HOME TOWN.
i cannot TELL you how crazy this is making me.
i wanted to go, but life got in the way.
THIS is sufferage@!!!!!!
say hi to DenCo for me will ya Jane.
And do NOT leave without cruising out to Red Rocks.
It’s a must see in anyone’s lifetime!
OWWWWWWWWWIIIIIE!
this is killin’ me.

All this time I’ve been thinking that Jeff Toobin and Jeffrey Toobin were the same person. But there they are, both in the room at the same time. It’s like seeing Clark Kent and Superman shake hands.

Seconded.

Not only can Biden throw elbows, but he can do it in such a way that it doesn’t sound mean-spirited. McShame has attacked Obama in mean-spirited ways so many times over the last few weeks, yet all of the stuff we heard yesterday just sounded credible, not mean. Take for instance the contrast between the way General Clark’s reference that being shot down doesn’t qualify you to be Commander-in-Chief. While that’s true, the McShame campaign squealed like a banshee that they were besmirching his war record and his pow status. Yet Biden said yesterday, “These times require more than a good soldier. They require a wise leader.” I don’t see anything to complain about in that. He can do it, and do it with a smile on his face. That’s why they call him the happy warrior! We needed that, IMO!

Ah Jane, just what us regular blogosphere readers want to know from The Cyber Villagers: who y’all are partying and dining with in Denver or the Netroots conventions as you craft the conventional blogosphere wisdom. Im about as interested in it as who the MSM Villagers are dining with in Georgetown. Wow, talk about parallel universes. Say hi to Joe Klein for me.

I wish I were in denver, it sounds like a blast.

Hey Jane I heard you on Greenwald’s new podcast and you were great. I am really excited about this second wave of new progressive programs (Rachel Maddow on MSNBC) and podcasts (Glenn from Salon) that are popping up and think that Firedoglake really gets credit for turning more and more people onto progressive issues with ACTION in the agenda and not just bitching. This will be really important AFTER Obama is elected because election day is kind of like a wedding day, the journey has just begun. We need to keep up the pressure to actually ACCOMPLISH things.

Keep up the good work!

Please don’t drink Coors beer! From http://www.corporations.org:
“The Coors family has always had strong ties to neo-Nazis. Adolph Coors allowed KKK meetings and cross-burnings on brewery property in Colorado. In 1984, Bill Coors fought against passage of the Civil Rights Act, telling an audience of black businessmen that blacks don’t succeed because they “lack intellectual capacity.” After encouraging them to go back to Africa, he said that one of the best things slave-drivers did to American blacks “was to drag your ancestors over here in chains” because blacks in America have greater opportunity than those in Africa. Joe Coors is a major contributor to the Moral Majority, which has called for the imprisonment of gay persons with AIDS. The Coors family funds a right-wing sector of Christian fundamentalism, which seeks to replace democratic pluralism with so-called “traditional family values” that is, an authoritarian, gender-based social order. They support groups that say homosexuals are an abomination and AIDS is God’s judgment on sinners. They have supported Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Christian Reconstructionists, both of whom have called for the abolition of U.S. democracy and the establishment of a theocratic state ( . . . one nation under God, or else).”
Besides, there are so many very good microbreweries in and around Denver. Have fun!

perhaps one in the west, but wasn’t he turned in by family, & still in jail?

Oh, how I wish I could be there in my town for this, but I am tending a 91 year old who just broke his hip.

Please breakfast at the Market in Larimer Square, a favorite early morning spot for a quiet coffee and a croissant.

Have a beer at the skylark on south broadway (home of Drinking liberally) and ask about the resident drunken sage, the Denver Post’s own Enoch Needham, who died last year, but whose wit is fondly recalled by many. And stop in at Charlie Brown’s, a lovely dive bar on the hill with a past. Eat at the Mercury, but bring the pepto.

Have all the fun you can stand!

Damn, I wish I were there!

oops, i see you’ve already tended to the situation. ;->

hope you enjoy elitch’s!

i was unable to get any credentials to the big bloggers tent, so i am not attending, even tho denver is my hometown, and i have a number of rooms i could sleep in (w/my family).

have fun, kids!