Conventions

So I'm a bit of a presidential political junkie...I followed the primaries and previous campaigns with a feeling akin to watching a slow wreck where I don't want to watch but can't turn my head away from it. These conventions have been an experience, that's for sure. My friend from college, Jonas, works for CSPAN and has been sending email updates from both conventions and I thought I'd share a bit of what she is witnessing. It offers up a different view.

From the Democratic Convention in Denver:

Romney showed up at the Pepsi Center in Denver this week (he was doing analysis on CNN, who by the way, has a skybox bigger than most people's houses), and C-SPAN has video of him wandering aimlessly outside the gates, waiting for someone here to let him in. Priceless.

Also, The Crowd outside of the Daily Show has been about three times larger than the crowd outside of CNN.

Oh, and FOX news put their lights too close to the sprinkler system in their Skybox. FOX was safe, because they moved all of their stuff out of the way of the water, but the Skybox below them, which just happens to belong to PBS, was mysteriously not informed of the water raining down, and it shorted out their video fiber...so they went to black, LIVE on the air.

Just a few highlights from Denver...

And from the Republican Convention in Minneapolis:

Went to a party on Monday night held by what I like to refer to as the "gray area lobby" (i.e. Liquor, Prescription drugs, and tobacco subsidiaries, as opposed to actual tobacco companies). Drinks were, of course, excellent. Four floors of entertainment in downtown Minneapolis, including belly dancing on the third floor, and a cigar porch on the second, complete with former MSNBC personality Tucker Carlson holding court, surrounded by women. Went to grab a lobster puff (to go along with my "we swear they're not cuban" cigar) and ran into Rudy "I used to be someone" Giuliani.

Also, Republican boys are creepy. One shouted at me as he walked past holding his cigar "Try it, you'll like it" in a totally lecherous way.

PS. If you were wondering why all of the "handmade signs" that the crowd is holding up at the Republican Convention look uniform and beautiful, that's because each and every sign that is in the crowd was made by a single RNC intern with a colorful sharpie... I asked her.

On Tuesday, yelled at Joe Lieberman and Andrea Mitchell (NBC) for messing up my groove...

Oh politics...you could make a bitter cynic out of just about anyone.