Forty fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

Excerpt: "Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado".

We know what happens next, don't we? You can't see, and the cameras can't televise the Rocky Mountains live while Obama uses King's "words, just words", if Obama is indoors.

Can't you hear the pundits now?
"That was the most powerful acceptance speech in the history of mankind!"
"Those stirring words, and the mention of Martin Luther King and the sight of the actual mountains Dr. King spoke about, was so moving."
"I felt something tingling up my leg."

After the way Kennedy's supporters treated Carter, this was a very smart move.

I love this job!

an extra 25k supporters in Denver in case the nomination starts to go awry. Imagine you're a wavering delegate, and you know there are 20k Obama supporters on their way to Denver and they're going to be pissed if he's not the nominee - you think the fact of all of those people on the street, after the thuggery that crew unleashed on the caucuses isn't going to chill people?

Who here thinks those people wouldn't riot if Clinton or some other consensus candidate pulled the nomination away from Obama? Do we really think all those 20-something delegates that were left after the Obama purged everyone who had participated in politics before and actually knew how the system worked and were capable of thinking for themselves, aren't going to perceive that Obama had the nomination stolen from him and cut loose just as they did in caucus after caucus around the nation?

It's a photo op! No, it's an implicit threat! It's a photo op AND an implicit threat!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr.....

I've heard the stories out of Texas and Iowa first hand. These aren't Demorats - these are Obamacans.

I thought we were told to stop our circle jerking and that this change of venue was above board!
Or am I confused and group thinking again?
GOTV effort, for reals. Nothing to see here

A short video by Derren Brown in which he repeats the Milgram experiment and gets similar results -- 50% willing to administer horrifying shocks to humans because a guy in a white coat told them to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JWrw0rHQ0U

Denver was chosen on January 11, 2007. The original request for a proposal went out in February of the previous year. Ultimately, only thee cities ended up submitting bids to host the convention: New York City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Denver. But, I don't see any conspiracy, here, at all. The Dems have had Colorado on their minds since at least 2004, and possibly before then.

BTW, while I agree that in the short-term moving the acceptance from the perilous events at the Pepsi Center will be a good thing for him, if anyone thinks that there is going to be some huge net positive, I think they are wrong. He can't keep doing the same thing and expecting the same level of enthusiasm every time. It's like a junkie trying to get a new high. It just doesn't happen.

That's a given. ;)