For all the hoopla about embittered New York Senator Hillary Clinton hijacking the Democratic National Convention, the erstwhile presidential candidate deferred to Barack Obama during her 25 minute speech at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night.
“Barack Obama is my candidate,” said Clinton amid cheers. “And he must be our President.”
With Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention just hours away, many of the New York senator’s committed feminist supporters are softening toward the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket.
While steadfast Clinton supporters are clamoring for her nomination on the floor of the convention tomorrow, there are indications that the disappointment and disillusionment of the past several months are slowly melting away as Clinton backers heed the call for party unity.
The Denver chapter of Food Not Bombs plans to feed as many as 2,000 people twice a day during the Democratic National Convention. The anti-war group set up camp yesterday morning near the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol during the Re-create 68 demonstration. Food Not Bombs volunteers provided free bagels, oatmeal and yogurt to activists.
Anti-war protesters at Monday’s Re-create 68 rally produced a spectacle of orange and white peace flags, but the dozens of legal observers present kept their eyes on the less-colorful police.
Volunteers with the People’s Law Project, a group defending the rights of protesters, accompanied activists as they marched from the Colorado State Capitol to the Pepsi Center. Sporting bright green baseball caps, the legal observers shot photos of police and took notes on their interactions with the protesters; the information may be used in the case of a lawsuit.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will be making a public appearance tonight in Denver before she hunkers down next week as the Democratic National Convention chair. After 20 years in Congress, Pelosi became the first female speaker last year.
It’s a well-known fact that Denver’s ramshackle motels host some of the city’s most needy families. But just how many families live in temporary motel housing is impossible to say. During the summer months, the city typically doles out around 16 vouchers each day, which are redeemable at 16 motels. But the number of homeless families crashing along Colfax Avenue, Broadway and Colorado Boulevard is likely much higher. And it’s a hard figure to pin down.
The most dynamic part of Denver’s Democratic National Convention next week may occur outside the Pepsi Center. The major protest group Re-create 68 announced its schedule of events this afternoon, and it’s a doozy of a lineup. More than 50 speakers and musicians will round out logistical trainings for the activists.
Protesters braved the rain on Friday afternoon to publicly denounce a holding facility where law enforcement officers may detain protesters in the event of mass arrests at the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week.
Guest columnist Dana Houle pens a fascinating analysis on the potential of a brokered convention.
It is almost certain that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will secure the Democratic presidential nomination prior to the Democratic convention this August
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Iowa Independent’s John Deeth surveys the landscape of Democratic Party superdelegates in a post-Super Tuesday follow up.
Who the heck are these people, where did they come from, and how could they alone decide the democratic presidential nomination?
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