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Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Build Up

posted by on August 28 at 17:00 PM

We in the press box at Mile High were handed the official schedule not long ago. Barack Obama will speak at 8 p.m. Mountain Time (7 p.m. Pacific), and in the meantime a series of speakers and musicians are going to parade across the stage, tugging at our heart strings, upping the emotional intensity, and promoting Obama’s talking points.

Right now Sheryl Crow is singing. She was preceded by will.i.am, doing the song from his famous web video with the help of a giant back-up choir. Before that came Rep. John Lewis, two children of Dr. Martin Luther King, and a video about King’s legacy that played on the jumbotron. In addition, Howard Dean and Obama campaign big-wig David Plouffe talked up Obama’s chances and tore into McCain. Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem. Shawn Johnson did the pledge. And every major politician in Colorado, it seems, came to the stage and said this state—a key swing state, which is why the convention was held here—will be going for Obama this Novemeber.

Coming up: Stevie Wonder, Al Gore, Bill Richardson, Susan Eisenhower (granddaughter of Dwight D.), various and sundry others too numerous to mention, and then the man himself.

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1

It's Sheryl Crow. Those of us with the apparently weird spelling have to stick together.

Posted by Sheryl | August 28, 2008 5:02 PM
2

Richardson is now on stage....

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | August 28, 2008 5:14 PM
3

I am strong!

Posted by The Incredible Sulk | August 28, 2008 5:15 PM
4

Strong!

Posted by The Sulkettes | August 28, 2008 5:16 PM
5

I am invincible!

Posted by The Incredible Sulk | August 28, 2008 5:18 PM
6

Invincible!

Posted by The Sulkettes | August 28, 2008 5:19 PM
7

I am ... SULK!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

Posted by The Incredible Sulk | August 28, 2008 5:21 PM
8

HA, I read that as Sheryl Chow

Posted by meks | August 28, 2008 5:48 PM

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