I don't trust CNN or any other network to cover those adequately.

Oh, and all the star sightings. I hear Denver will be Ground Zero for not only the biggest names in American politics, but also the brightest music, movie and media stars.

You never know who you'll bump into at a street corner, or in a diner restroom (lol) ...

Easy and fun read.  Maupin is famous for his "Tales of the City" series and Michael Tolliver was one of the principal characters.

I read this book when I flew to Portland last month.  I missed my connecting flight in DENVER (props to JM) and sat in the airport for 3 hours.  Great companion.  

I also bought the Scott McClellan tell-all book.  It's good too as long as you can stomach the first few chapters of Bush-worship.  Then he gets to the nitty-gritty.

I put on the headphones, I plugged the Ipod into them, I pulled out my pocket-size Sukoku.  Three hours later, when my spouse said we were there, I was stunned.  It seemed like only minutes.  And I was up for making the most of the first day, as soon as I could get sand between my toes.

The only difference between then and now is that November was long, long way away in January.

Now?

No Hillary.
Convention upon us.
A little over two months to go.
Obama trending down.
Undecideds trending up - and undecideds go with known quantities, not unknown quantities.  Obama needs to define himself and his policies.  Strong positions.  Crystal clear policies.  Yadd yada.

.  The Rise
speakers and entertainment will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 10  p.m., with the
national “Rise” candle salute to Hillary, Democracy and Lady  Liberty to
Kickoff in Cheesman Park at exactly 9:45 MDT.

In addition, you can get up to 10x optical zoom out of a point and shoot.  And likely you get better optics and better optical motion stability.

I keep mine in my purse, so it's always handy.

One said Kaine, another one said Clinton.  

That's all I heard.

It sounds so juvenile, it could only come from the Obama campaign.  

I was also struck, again, by the sportsmanship exhibited; it's not always easy to be hyper-competitive AND happy for your teammates when they do better than you do, and for the others when they also do well.  These are lessons that will serve them well later in life and we could all take note for ourselves.

I suppose this is a segue into what I see as the ability of Hillary Clinton to be gracious and sportsmanlike, and put country and party over herself.  I'm not sure there are many people who could have competed in the atmosphere she did, where so many were cheering her defeats and the media were almost uniformly participating to see who could be more cutting.  To have kept her head up, her spirits high and go out there, and day after day, at event after event, communicate to the voters that she was on their side - that this was about them and their futures - is a feat that just amazes me, and for which I give her my utmost respect.

To then have reached the point at the end of the primaries, to accept defeat - even if her supporters would not - and to turn to the opponent who allowed disrespect and sexism and unfair charges of racism to propel him to victory and give him her unqualified and full-throated support, well - she is a better person than I, and I think America is going to be sorrier than it realizes not to have her leading this country to a better place.

True champions are not always those who win the race; Hillary is, in my opinion, a true champion.

Of course, it went largely unnoticed, and all efforts by certain factions of the netroots proved to be fruitless. So it baffles me that it's getting all this traction now, when this information's been out there for more than 7-8 months.