The war is down on the list of priorites with most voters....Biden has always supported it and the surge and if these protesters tuned in they'd know Condi was in Iraq last week and there is a plan in works to start bringing troops home next June and most out by 2011. They need to protest something else.
John Sydney....never Barack Hussein

Umm, wasn't it Obama that promised to pull out and now the Bush administration is planning to do that. Oh yeah. And the war is still very much on some people's minds and they have every right to protest.

Dan Manzanares, 61,.... Whats the saying? Old Hippies never die just fade away or yesterdays flower children are todays blooming idiots....both probably fit Mr. Dan. Dan, sober up it is not the same as 68 or the summer of love in 67. Time to get a job

Dan Manzanares, 61,.... Whats the saying? Old Hippies never die just fade away or yesterdays flower children are todays blooming idiots....both probably fit Mr. Dan. Dan, sober up it is not the same as 68 or the summer of love in 67. Time to get a job

Between the anti-American protesters and the pro-Clinton movement, this could turn out to be a VERY interesting convention... something like Chicago 1968.

Yeap do nothing democratics the congress only people less popular than the president nancy what do you have to say about this?

david...

You're partly correct... . This is no "summer of love"... it's a summer of hatred (left AND right).

The ingredients are in place for a very exciting convention, and the Denver police had BETTER be ready for something they've never experienced before.

Most political conventions are boring and not worth watching... like this year's Republican Yawner.

But once in awhile a convention comes along with such a huge division and disparity that it will create an event worth observing... from a distance.

The Denver Police Department appears to have dodged an unfavorable PR issue; good to see the para military storm troopers showed restraint, unlike their counterparts in NYC in 2004. Hopefully, they can hold their positions without taking advantage of their power through the convention's closing. Maybe Denver can set the modern day standard for being present and the freedom of expression; what a wonderful gift to America this would represent.

Well Now that the Iraqi Government is attacking those responsible for the Sunni Awakening. We shall see if the peace holds, and all that goes with it. They are correct to be concerned.

Lou...

An even better idea would be for those who hate America to stay home. A violent "protest" will accomplish NOTHING other than foster even more hatred.

We have enough hatred in our country. Those who would stir up trouble deserve whatever the cops want to give them. I'm NOT talking about a PEACEFUL demonstration or march. I'm talking about those who riot and destroy in the name of some "cause".

Against THOSE people, the cops need REAL weapons, not rubber bullets.

Why is the DNC convention being targeted by ... Democrat protesters? This is one of several reasons why the GOP will win, again, in November. Not that I like it. But they will. The Dems disagree and protest one another, vote vs. one another, undermine and denounce one another, and lose. The Reps. disagree, talk it out, strike deals, accept realities, and stay in power.

The stakes: Obama wins and diplomacy overseas starts to get back to sane, if sometimes ineffective, still sane. If the GOP wins, it gets only more insane and remains only partially effective. And, we get the draft back, too. And that is exactly what will happen.

Protestors have EVERY right to shield their faces from the police filming them and putting them in an illegal database for exercising their right to assemble and petition their govt. leaders. They have every right to take appropriate precautions when the police pepper spray men, women and children as young as six months old, like they did in Portland, OR. (Google "the eye of the storm" for actual footage of the police attacking protestors who merely showed up, and were actually in the "free speech zone") The Democrats, in league with the Republicans have collaborated with Bush in every way and now with Biden, Obama has signaled that the millitarist, police state, and war of humiliation and occupation in "strategic areas of interest" (i.e. were the OIL is!) will be placed in our control, rather than that countires control or to somebody other than Britan and the US interests. We are dying overseas and becoming indebted back home in order to kill others for the right of our masters to enslave us further with the creation of deficts and destruction overseas. A nation that is broke, and has it's military overseas with it's borders and soverignity comprimised is not a nation at all. Think about this and ask yurself if the next Obama/McCain face will bring behind it TRUE change in current policy, or just bring about a new face on the same, old, tired and ancient method of rule by and for the empire, instead of rule by ad for the people both here and overseas. Look closely and then tell me what it is that you see... And NOT what you are told but someone else what it is.

Matt,

I will tell you why. The GOP is hopeless, always has been and always will be. All other factions, like it or not, default to the Democratic Party. It is a party of minorities, not in the sense of race, but in political, and social ideas. How to coalesce these diverse gropus is problem.

"Once they get in the White House they forget"....that part is right! Obama has already forgotten and Hillary has never known! McCain will win in Novemeber and all the crying and protesting won't stop that!

Neither candidate will get us out of that area till the Iraqi's want us out.

Now that was stated YEARS ago but Bush.

Iraqi is going to go thru their elections and Sadar is being really quiet as it is his agenda to have the Iraqi Government to push for a time line.

That has nothing to do with Obama at all.

Get a grip and keep you eye on the ball.

Draft, what draft...man you guys are weak sauce.

If you don't want to go to hot zones then stay out of the military.

ahhh i love it. screaming little liberals...

thinking...

are you still here talking nonsense??!!!

robert...

let it go. she lost fair and square. show me the evidence or quit complaining.

matt..

good point. i would hate to be one of the "normal" democrats out there. the party is being hijacked by the extreme left and its nothing but chaos.

they however DONT hve the right to disturb the peace. its called a civil disturbance. look it up. the ones who were in the streets or disrupted traffic should be cuffed and thrown in jail.