The Blogger Lounge
posted by Silvana
Signs are entertaining, circumstances prevent me from being entertained by the actual convention. Above the water cooler we've got "Do not use plastic cups for hot water. Bad things happen" with a skull and crossbones. Over here we've got "Do not stand on the chairs. You will fall. We will laugh.
I have yet to see any bloggers I know, and the chatter in the lounge means I basically can't hear the feed on the television. Not that it's particularly interesting. Next speaker up that's on the schedule is Kathleen Sebelius, so mayeavy be people will quiet down for that shit. Also, people keep coming in and taking pictures of the lounge. It's not very interesting, people. It's just a bunch of people on computer.
Now there's a middle-aged woman with a heavy Southern accent talking. I don't know who she is because the announcement of her name was drowned out by the local chatter.
Speaking of Kathleen Sebelius, why is it that the buzz in the progressive blogosphere the day after Biden was selected as Obama's VP was that people weren't happy with the choice of Biden, with the alternative, better choices presented being Sebelius and sometimes Chris Dodd?
As far as I can tell, one of the benefits of choosing Sebelius was that she is pretty moderate, and indeed she has been described as "pro-business, pro-military, and that she's from "middle America", which balances out Obama's ridiculous "effete elitist" media-created image. In other words, choosing Sebelius would be choosing someone less progressive than Obama, and it would be a choice based on the same-old, same-old regional considerations (e.g., you have to have veep from the South, cf. John Edwards). If you're a progressive blogger, why is it that Sebelius would have been better than Biden? Is it just because she's a woman? I think having women in positions of power is extremely important, but I don't think this alone makes her a better veep pick than Biden.
I have to go now, some actual reporters want to interview me. I'm sweaty and I look like shit, but how can I turn down the chance to be on TV?
I have yet to see any bloggers I know, and the chatter in the lounge means I basically can't hear the feed on the television. Not that it's particularly interesting. Next speaker up that's on the schedule is Kathleen Sebelius, so mayeavy be people will quiet down for that shit. Also, people keep coming in and taking pictures of the lounge. It's not very interesting, people. It's just a bunch of people on computer.
Now there's a middle-aged woman with a heavy Southern accent talking. I don't know who she is because the announcement of her name was drowned out by the local chatter.
Speaking of Kathleen Sebelius, why is it that the buzz in the progressive blogosphere the day after Biden was selected as Obama's VP was that people weren't happy with the choice of Biden, with the alternative, better choices presented being Sebelius and sometimes Chris Dodd?
As far as I can tell, one of the benefits of choosing Sebelius was that she is pretty moderate, and indeed she has been described as "pro-business, pro-military, and that she's from "middle America", which balances out Obama's ridiculous "effete elitist" media-created image. In other words, choosing Sebelius would be choosing someone less progressive than Obama, and it would be a choice based on the same-old, same-old regional considerations (e.g., you have to have veep from the South, cf. John Edwards). If you're a progressive blogger, why is it that Sebelius would have been better than Biden? Is it just because she's a woman? I think having women in positions of power is extremely important, but I don't think this alone makes her a better veep pick than Biden.
I have to go now, some actual reporters want to interview me. I'm sweaty and I look like shit, but how can I turn down the chance to be on TV?
Labels: democratic national convention, m. leblanc
Posted at 5:36 PM
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