With Barack Obama slated to accept the Democratic presidential nomination on August 28, the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, black TV networks will be all over the convention in Denver. In her piece in the June 30 Denver Post, Joanne Ostrow quotes TV…
View larger image Vermont Total Number of Delegates: 23 Pledged: 15 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a Vermont Delegate: Vermont has a reputation as a haven for hippies and trust-funders, but loaded wannabes are only fooling themselves if they think they can be a Green Mountaineer simply by relocating and…
Let’s get this clear up front: This is not some sort of liberal swift-boating. The fact that John McCain’s Vietcong jailer has backhandedly endorsed him for president isn’t — or shouldn’t be, anyway — anything more than one of those weird political stories. McCain spent over five years as a…
Since the Dems’ national convention is bound to be a highly scripted affair, it’s probably a good thing that indy filmmakers are getting busy now, cranking out five-minute shorts for Cinemocracy.org, a joint project of the Denver 2008 Host Committee, the Denver Film Society and the city’s Office of Cultural…
Laura Kriho got her wish. The longtime local activist has spent the last several months putting together a website, www.comeuptodenver.com, that serves as a clearinghouse for political- action information connected to the Democratic National Convention coming to town August 25-28. And as the soundrtrack for the anticipated action, as detailed…
It’s rapidly becoming apparent that when Mayor John Hickenlooper said he wanted to “make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet,” he wasn’t talking about the kind of green that comes with pictures of dead presidents. While fundraising for the upcoming Democratic National Convention lags, the press…
Here’s a sure sign that the Democratic National Convention is less than ten weeks away: local crazy John Madden has updated his sign! Westword first wrote about the relentless political sign-flier in 2005. Three months after the presidential election and five years since Bill Clinton had been president, the then-63-year-old…
DNC protest group Tent State University, standing in for the larger protest amalgam Alliance for Real Democracy, has been granted permits to host a series of large concerts in City Park from August 24-28. Parks and Recreation planners expect as many as 20,000 participants will be drawn to the free…
So John McCain’s website has a new game you can play and/or embed in your Facebook profile called Pork Invaders, which you can sample below. Yes, I know it sounds like porn. No, I’m not sure they realize that…
In a June 24 article by former Denver Post religion writer Eric Gorski, who’s currently writing (and kicking ass) for the Associated Press, Focus on the Family spokesman Tom Minnery said that an aide for Barack Obama recently suggested a sit-down at the evangelical organization’s Colorado Springs HQ. Doubt something…
View larger image Utah Total Number of Delegates: 29 Pledged: 23 Unpledged: 6 How to Recognize a Utah Delegate: Based on national news stories, most Americans would think it was easier to get a second wife than a second drink while visiting Utah — as if residents of the Beehive…
Given all the “yee haw!” that’s gone on in the White House since Texan George W. Bush took office in the year 2000, a roundup seems quite appropriate, and Rik Clay of 20/08 Productions in Boulder, is organizing just that. The Great Marble Round-Up is a call to action for…
John McCain ends his new commercial with the following words: Reform. Prosperity. Peace. Wow. The images are a transparent play for the vote of environmentalists, and one has to give the guy (or at least his publicity team) credit for hitting the right buzzwords. But this is one of those…
The Mayor’s office has announced which groups have been granted slots to utilize the designated parade route during the week of the Democratic National Convention. In May, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the city for failing to assign what path demonstrators would be able to march through downtown and…
Democrats have made many mistakes over the years, as this slide show by Joe Horton makes clear. In fact, they’ve made too many to include in a single slide show. So here, a couple of honorable mentions:…
Karen Brooks of the Dallas Morning News certainly isn’t the first person to take umbrage with Westword cartoonist Kenny Be’s point of view, especially his Delegating Denver , an online series devoted to profiling the 56 state and territory delegations. But in this case, Brooks wasn’t insulted because Kenny was…
View larger image Texas Total Number of Delegates: 228 Pledged: 193 Unpledged: 35 How to Recognize a Texas Delegate: This state may be huge and populous, but the Lone Star mystique can be summed up in the image of George W. Bush and Jessica Simpson driving a Ford F-150 pickup…
As many news sources are reporting, Al Gore will be appearing at a Barack Obama rally in Detroit tonight, June 16, to discuss a very important political issue. In a Westword scoop, we got the lowdown on Gore’s speech, which will echo a presentation he gave right here in Colorado…
The Democratic National Convention convenes in Denver in exactly ten weeks. But right now, it’s nail-biting time. The first hurdle: today’s deadline for raising the rest of the $40.6 million that the Denver host committee is required to pour into the pot — money that’s slated to be used for…
John McCain’s daughter Meghan will be coming out with a children’s book based on the life of her father; the book will be published by Simon and Schuster just in time for the Republican National Convention in September. Meghan McCain, known to some as a blogger, said in a prepared…
With the two major-party nominees picked and the long slog until November ahead of us, let the message of change be carried by Smokey the Parrot. I have but three questions:…
Groups hoping to organize marches during the Democratic National Convention got a better idea today of what route they’ll be allowed to take. The Mayor’s office has released what will be the only designated parade route through the city from August 25 to 28. Marches will only be allowed to…
