Barack Obama's acceptance speech is only hours away. Don't forget the watch parties planned tonight; see the full list here. Red State Rebels will have an open thread for tonight's speech, as well as a slide show of pix from the Basque Center party in Boise later tonight. (P.S. If you are taking pictures at any of the other parties statewide, send me one or two at juliewrites at yahoo dot com, and I will try to include them.)
Check out these latest dispatches from Denver: Gary Allen, Gail Bray, "Adam & Eve," Debu Majumdar, and ReBecca Suits of the Idaho delegation have all gone on record with YouTube to say why they support Barack Obama. Maj and Justin StormoGipson blog about this morning's meeting with Obama's chief of staff, Boise High grad Jim Messina. There's much more on the IDP's daily convention page.
Update 2:07 p.m.: Tara Rowe of The Political Game will be live blogging tonight here at RSR while I'm helping with the Basque Center shindiggery. Please join Tara with your reactions to the big night at Mile High. (And also read Tara's reflections on the end of the Hillary Clinton campaign. A snip: "Hillary Clinton did something last night that few politicians are willing to--she put aside her own ambitions, her own dashed dreams for the good of her party. In my book this is the very definition of statesmanship.")
Rescued from the comments (h/t Sisyphus), check out this great post by Jerry Brady on the meeting with Jim Messina.
And what might some Google ad buys reveal about John McCain's VP pick? McSame has been coy on the issue all day, saying he hasn't decided (even though he's supposedly still making the announcement tomorrow), but he may not be talking straight. Heh. Imagine that. (h/t Sharon)
Click my name if you want some tangible bounce with that enthusiasm.
What time does the speech begin? I'm going to take a happy pill and see if I can join you and the rest of the throng.
Posted by: Sisyphus | August 28, 2008 at 01:05 PM
And click again for a great bit of insight from Obama's chief of staff.
Jules, I'm having repeated issues with windows trying to load your page. Not sure why but it keeps aborting. I eventually get it.
And congratulations on coordinating all the great sites out there. You've done an outstanding job.
Posted by: Sisyphus | August 28, 2008 at 01:11 PM
Never mind on the schedule. kos has it front paged. Holy chit, this looks like a winner, lining up twenty generals in support.
Posted by: Sisyphus | August 28, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Happy pill? You okay Sis?
Posted by: Tara Rowe | August 28, 2008 at 01:40 PM
Sisyphus, I suspect the slow-loading may have something to do with all the video linkages etc., plus higher-than-usual traffic this week. Sorry about that. (This is a recent problem, right?)
Posted by: Julie in Boise | August 28, 2008 at 01:59 PM
.... and like Tara said, hope all's well in sisland. See you later.
Posted by: Julie in Boise | August 28, 2008 at 01:59 PM
Well it'll sound familiar to you. The words from the radiologists report that jumped out at me were "severe left greater than right subarticular lateral recess narrowing and a severe degree of narrowing of the central spinal canal." That translates into a lot of pain making for a cranky Sis. Again, I blame you.;-)
Posted by: Sisyphus | August 28, 2008 at 02:03 PM
God, Sis, I just emailed you. This is horrible. Maybe the surgeons could give us a twofer...two surgeries for the price of one!
Posted by: Tara Rowe | August 28, 2008 at 02:46 PM