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Democratic Convention Day 1: Part Two
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 10:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Leaving the Colorado Convention Center to walk to the shuttle taking folks to the Pepsi Center where the press filing centers are and where the evening’s events would take place, I was passed by a rickshaw driver. His casual attire contrasts ... More >>
Democratic Convention Day 1: Part One
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 9:58 am | Rosalea Barker
I started the day by attending the Black Caucus meeting at the Colorado Convention Center. The meeting was held in a large theater, so it wasn’t particularly full. I’d expected some business to be done—committee reports, that kind of thing—but ... More >>
Rosalea Barker: Pre-Convention Day
Monday, 25 August 2008, 3:17 pm | Rosalea Barker
Today’s Sunday, August 24, the day when media picked up their credentials, and there was an anti-war rally and march timed to coincide with the official kickoff of the Convention. Many other events were scheduled by groups taking advantage of ... More >>
Convention Watch 2
Monday, 25 August 2008, 2:21 pm | Rosalea Barker
Saturday greetings, possums, from the Mile High City—Denver, Colorado. At 12:41pm it is 78 degrees, but feels much hotter, and gathering clouds seem to be promising a downpour later today. My flight from Oakland last night was sweet as… we took ... More >>
A follow-up to An Occasional Note, 14
Monday, 18 August 2008, 2:17 pm | Rosalea Barker
Following the Saddleback Church’s Civil Forum on Saturday, I called into a teleconference featuring “some of the nation’s top evangelical leaders” according to the press release. It was arranged to provide “an expanded perspective on how evangelicals ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the Campaigns No. 14
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 4:51 pm | Rosalea Barker
This Saturday, Senators Obama and McCain will each be questioned for an hour by the leader of Saddleback Church, Dr. Rick Warren, in Lake Forest, Southern California. The event will be carried live by CNN and Fox News, as well as being streamed live ... More >>
The August Surprise has arrived at last!
Monday, 11 August 2008, 5:23 pm | Rosalea Barker
::Discombombulated:: Friday night’s telly was just a little too much for my old brain to cope with. Flicking between ABC’s Movie of the Week and Russia Today on the MHz Channel, I was easily confused as to what I was watching. Death raining down ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the Campaigns No. 13
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 2:16 pm | Rosalea Barker
Just released online this afternoon, this ad shows that a new candidate has entered the race: More >>
Stateside: Banished to a grog shop
Thursday, 31 July 2008, 11:11 am | Rosalea Barker
Back in April, I was sold a packet of cigarettes by a young woman in a white coverall whose name badge identified her as a pharmacist. It’s long been a mystery to me why “The Pharmacy America Trusts” would hawk the Evil Weed, but in the US, you ... More >>
Stateside: Convention watch
Monday, 28 July 2008, 11:13 am | Rosalea Barker
In just four weeks’ time, the world’s media will be lining up in Denver, Colorado, to receive their press credentials to cover the Democratic national convention; a week later, ditto in St. Paul, Minnesota, for the Republican convention. But already, ... More >>
Stateside: Not that you’d know
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 7:11 pm | Rosalea Barker
doing tv news is like holding an enormous megaphone. the decisions about whose mouth to place it in front of demand experience, a moral compass, a sense of whose story will not otherwise be heard, and some local history. a sense of the absurd and facts ... More >>
An Occasional Note on the 2008 Campaigns, No. 12
Monday, 21 July 2008, 11:29 am | Rosalea Barker
Piece of bacon, that is. Today’s early morning newscasts are awash with images of Senator Barack Obama—coincidentally a presidential candidate—on a fact-finding mission with a congressional delegation in Afghanistan. Pity the poor other members ... More >>
Progress on election reform
Monday, 14 July 2008, 1:26 pm | Rosalea Barker
The major difference between the Republican and Democratic Presidential Primaries was that the Republican Party had a winner-take-all system while the Democratic Party used Proportional Representation to obtain delegates. The National Democratic Party ... More >>
Stateside: Wexler on impeachment
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 2:26 pm | Rosalea Barker
Over the coming week, Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) will be appearing on a number of television programs. In an email to supporters, passed on to Scoop, he writes that he intends to raise the issues of impeachment and inherent contempt as often ... More >>
San Francisco City Hall, June 16, 2008
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 8:53 am | Rosalea Barker
The scene outside San Francisco City Hall about an hour into the wedding-fest for same-sex couples. California began issuing marriage licenses at 5:01pm, following a recent California Supreme Court ruling that to limit marriage to a man and a woman ... More >>
Stateside: I’ve got mail
Monday, 16 June 2008, 5:37 pm | Rosalea Barker
As much as I know you very likely are right that impeachment isn't going to happen, I still hope something, perhaps one revelation too many, will catalyze impeachment. No, I can't believe it will, but ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea Barker
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 9:50 am | Rosalea Barker
This week the House will vote on a bill to amend US Code Title 18, Section 3056 (a) so that the Secret Service can extend its protection to former Vice Presidents. More >>
Stateside: Yes she won’t
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:02 am | Rosalea Barker
National Building Museum. Glass ceiling. Get it? National Building Museum. Architects. Of their own defeat? Was the choice of venue for Clinton’s speech a sly dig at those in the Democratic Party who have switched allegiance ? As a graphic on one ... More >>
Stateside: Only my second election...
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 11:44 am | Rosalea Barker
It’s just after 8pm here in California and the polls have now closed for what normally would have been CA’s presidential primary election if it hadn’t been moved up to February this year. Instead, we had a Direct Primary Election, the primaries being ... More >>
Impeachment: Wake up and weep
Monday, 2 June 2008, 2:07 pm | Rosalea Barker
I’d hardly had my eyes open for ten minutes on Saturday morning before they were filled with tears. Anger? Gut-dropping despair? Is there any word that can describe how it felt to be watching on the local unaffiliated TV station’s morning news ... More >>
