Comments on: Hello, Denver

By: buma

buma — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:40:01 +0000

william, meet the dustbin of history.

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:16 +0000

Compare and contrast time again.

By: Gus

Gus — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:57:09 +0000

William,

I don’t think that quote says what you seem to believe it says.

I really don’t think it’s contracersial to say that the Warren court didn’t create a framework where government pays reparations and that the civil rights movement would have been better off pursuing that goal through developing the community rather than going to the courts.

By: william

william — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:05:46 +0000

Hello Denver,

“…the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.” (Obama-2001)

See you stupid proles, we need to “break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” to “guarantee redistributive change” and “social justice”.

F the constitution!

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:13:08 +0000

Conservative popularity lens:

Popular Republican=second coming of Reagan!

Popular Democrat=Second coming of Chairman Mao!

By: jr

jr — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:29:06 +0000

“Obama was in CO for his birth certificate”-Rush

By: Colorado Dave

Colorado Dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:03:36 +0000

Had to work so couldn’t go. I’m not at all surprised by the size of the crowd.

Phone calls are going good. Most people I reach have already voted. Obama’s Colorado GOTV is much better organized and much more decentralized than was Kerry’s. From my understanding 25% of registered voters already have.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:21:53 +0000

Awesome. Thanks for representing a better future for our country, Denver and CO.

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:38:34 +0000

I always thought a national blowout/landslide for Obama would be a reasonable response to the comparative talents on offer. Is it too much to hope for it now?

I still don’t trust the process or the American people, but the maddening thing is, every once in a while they wake up, and it halfway works – maybe this year?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:55:33 +0000

That’s more people than attended his convention speech! As someone who lives in Denver and works in Boulder, it’d be easy for me to assume that CO is and will be solidly Democratic, but much of the rest of the state is still mountain-west conservative (socially libertarian, rabidly anti-taxation). Still and all, CO feels like it’s in the bag for Obama. Can’t wait for Nov. 4!