Preserving Disorder
I could fake it, I guess, and try to care what the Democrats are saying at the Convention. I’m sure they’re putting on a very good show, and Obama will get the bounce he so sorely needs, and which he so sorely blew by picking a nudnik like Joe Biden.
Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama: wow. I gotta get me Tivo.
I’m a little maxed out on Hope and Change, I’m sorry to say, but I am a little more turned on by what’s happening outside the Pepsi Center:
Sweet. Nothing says representative democracy like a face full of mace.
Said one tender protester:
“I’m a little in shock,” said Joey-Kenzie, 21, of Denver, after spending about 90 minutes in the crowd of people pinned in by officers in SWAT gear.
Kenzie said she wanted to leave but police had surrounded the group and there was no way out.
“At one point we didn’t know what we were going to do, we were going to get arrested or maced,” said the recent Community College of Denver graduate.
Kenzie said police never asked for her identification.
“I haven’t been able to vote for a president yet, but this was an epiphany,” she said. “My freedom of speech was suppressed.”
That’s the degree from the Community College of Denver talking. Is it just my ignorance, or do we never see students from Cal Tech or Oxford or Heidelberg at these events?
Anyhow, I hope they recreate all the ‘68 they can. And ‘72, and ‘80, and ‘84, and ‘88, and ‘00, and ‘04.