February 02, 2007
DNC WInter Meeting: No Obama Accountrements
** Every candidate sans one peppered the crowd with buttons and bumper stickers. But Sen. Barack Obama, befitting his sober speech, had none of that. His display table outside the main ballroom was spare, expcept for a few sign up sheets and photocopied black and white signs. All the candidates sans one entered to music. But Obama had none. Every candidate packed the hall with supporters. Obama didn't do anything in advance.
** Slogans: HRC: "I'm in it to win." Vilsack: Courage to create change." Kucinich: "Strong leadership for America's future." Edwards: "Tomorrow begins today." Clark: "Securing America's future." Dodd: :"Proven Leadership. A record of results." Gravel: "Let the people decide." Biden: no slogans.
** A Democratic strategist joked to Biden's campaign manager, Luis Navarro, that one salutory effect of the New York Observer article was that now, everyone in the country knows where Biden stands on Iraq.
** Wierdest pander: palm cards handed out by Ex-Gov. Tom Vilsack's staff were manufactured using wind power.
Posted at 12:20 PM
Comments
No Kucinich speech breakdown?
Evan | 02.02.07 01:29 PM
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I asked one Obama volunteer where the Obama section was, and he said they were spread throughout the crowd. I think he was telling the truth: I noticed them starting up cheers by having the appluase start up simultaneous by many points.
Still, it was a big contrast with the Hillary organization, which seemed to be a cross between the Borg and the Young Republicans.
Hopeful | 02.03.07 03:21 PM
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