Mountain Sage

Here is the Hillary Clinton tribute video from the convention last night.
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While still unconfirmed, I have read from two different sources that the roll call vote will be a sham.
Delegates have been told they must indicate their choice for President and Vice President IN WRITING by 4:00 p.m. Wednesday and turn the vote into the state chairman.
Why? We’ve read reports of the strong arm [...]

Oh, good grief…could the Democrats be any more obvious in their pandering to evangelicals?  Are they going to continue to try and “out holy” the Republicans.  I’m glad Strang had enough sense to back out.  He probably realized he was being used.
Young evangelical backs out of convention prayer
By ERIC GORSKI, AP Religion Writer Fri Aug [...]

Is Obama also unaware of what Daughtry believes as he claimed to be with Rev. Wright?

ELECTION 2008
Democratic convention chief wants reparations for blacks
Shares controversial liberation theology with Obama’s ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright
Posted: August 11, 2008
10:10 pm Eastern
Leah Daughtry
The woman commissioned by the Democratic Party to direct its presidential nominating convention in two weeks espouses the same [...]

When either party manipulates a primary in order to install the candidate of the party leader’s choice instead of the people’s choice then that party has become corrupt from the top down and someone needs to call it for what it is.
The Primary season is for the people to select the candidate of their choice [...]

I think they FINALLY heard us.
Clinton’s name to be put in nomination at convention
(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has agreed to put former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton’s name in nomination at the Democratic National Convention this month.
Former rivals Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have called for unity at the Democratic convention.
Former rivals [...]

Want a ticket? Just in order to have a chance at a ticket the Obama campaign says you must do “volunteer” work for him. Kreider says she was a Hillary Clinton supporter and this was her first contact with the Obama campaign people…I guess unity has a price tag.
Obama tickets come with [...]

Pick for keynote speech shows Obama’s focus on Va.
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago
HONOLULU – Barack Obama chose Mark Warner, Virginia’s Senate candidate and former governor, to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic convention, underscoring Democrats’ all-out effort to win the Southern state for the first time
The move announced Wednesday also [...]

Is this the price of unity? No dissent, no criticism, just fall in line and shut up? Isn’t this type of attitude what Democrats criticized Republicans for?
Colorado Democrats Threaten Clinton Delegate’s Status
Tom Burke and John Ferrugia , 7NEWS Investigators
DENVER — An e-mail sent from the political director of the Colorado Democratic Party threatened [...]

Washington – The national political conventions, it is often said, have become nothing more than infomercials. And if the Democratic Party has its way, the 2008 convention in Denver will be just that: a four-day, future-focused love-fest centered on the theme of change.
But with just two weeks to go before the opening bell, presumptive [...]