{"id":2426,"date":"2008-08-26T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2008-08-26T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:58:39","slug":"on-the-periphery-of-the-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"On the periphery of the Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an awful lot of stuff on this convention that&#8217;s not showing up on the news, so I thought I&#8217;d troll around around a bit and bring back some of the news you might have missed.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the IVAW misfits in their class photo (yes, I see you, AS);<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ivawwestcoastretreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2427\" title=\"ivawwestcoastretreat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ivawwestcoastretreat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ivawwestcoastretreat.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ivawwestcoastretreat-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.new.mu.nu\/protest_fun_and_wackiness_alice_h\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a> has AliceH on the job getting video and still of the event. You can go to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AliceAitch\" target=\"_self\">YouTube<\/a> channel (and see fake waterboarding demonstrations) or to <a href=\"http:\/\/denverstuff.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">her photo blog<\/a> to see the latest. Photos like this (that make parents so proud);<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_2258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2429\" title=\"img_2258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_2258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_2258.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_2258-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Funk the War protest conducted by IVAW among the Code Pinks and assorted anarchists was videoed by a freelancer in Denver. You can watch this video about the horrible police state in which we&#8217;re living narrated by a bunch of spoiled brats who aren&#8217;t being arrested and tossed in jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube 6CLsVbD1ox4 nolink]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/08\/trash_nazis.asp\" target=\"_blank\">The Weekly Standard<\/a>&#8216;s Jonathan V. Last tells us about the police state inside the Convention. From the American Prospect&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=08&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=party_people_karen_brown_and_b\" target=\"_blank\">TAPPED<\/a>, we find out not all of the delegates are pleased about Obama getting the nomination;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>You have a Hillary shirt and a John McCain button.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karen Brown: She was my first choice. Now I&#8217;m going to vote for McCain.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KB: I don&#8217;t like Senator <strong>Obama<\/strong>. His choices are all wrong. I feel secure with John McCain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you feel McCain and Hillary have overlap that Obama doesn&#8217;t?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KB: I feel that Hillary would make me also feel safe as far as terrorism goes while I think Obama would be thinking about it. As he said in an interview, I&#8217;ll &#8220;confront evil.&#8221; John McCain said I&#8217;ll &#8220;defeat&#8221; evil. I feel Hillary would&#8217;ve said the same thing. I want to feel safe here in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And a photo to go along with the transcript;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/browntierney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2428\" title=\"browntierney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/browntierney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/browntierney.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/browntierney-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My mentor, <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/live-from-dnc-its-zombietime-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie<\/a>, is still on the job, of course, sending out photos that will be the hallmarks of this cluster in Denver;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_4846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2430\" title=\"img_4846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_4846-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_4846-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_4846.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/31048_Zombie-_Recreate_68_Finally_Lives_Up_to_Its_Name-_Riot_in_Denver#headline\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie got in too deep<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an awful lot of stuff on this convention that&#8217;s not showing up on the news, &hellip; <a title=\"On the periphery of the Convention\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2426\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the periphery of the Convention<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,43,37,47,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-code-pink","category-ivaw","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}