TBA chatter quoted on Politico.com

"Hillary doesn't really understand how nutty the American public has been made by this administration. This is not rousing... this is like a wet noodle." -Jane Kleba

The article by Ben Smith appeared in Politico.com. It spoke about the audience's response to Hillary Clinton's speech today. It's great that Jane was quoted... she was an active guest in the chat rooms all 3 days of the conference). Ben also had this to say about the chat room audience, "The contemporaneous forum on Take Back America's website -- and it's worth keeping in mind that this is hardly Hillary's crowd -- was particularly hard on her."

The Clint-pranos/Hillary gets booed

Hillary's new commercial is really corny, even though Bill makes a cameo. It also brings up the sore subject of The Sopranos shit ending, which I still hate David Chase for.


Hillary also had a pretty boring speech today at TBA 2007... that is until she got booed for blaming the Iraqi government's failure to make tough decisions. Those boos quickly turned into cheers from her young supporters (who apparently were given free tickets to the conference). She also promised to bring all the troops back "When I am President!" I actually thought Kucinich was awesome today. The guy has so much conviction, and the best part is he doesn't speak in those terrible cliches i.e. "The other day I went to _____ (insert small town in Midwest here) and I spoke with a group of _____ (insert disenfranchised group of unfortunate souls here)."

Thanks for the kind words, Dan

“This conference has come a long, long way in four years. One of the critiques floating around is that a lot of the faces are the same, but this is the pace of the movement that we’re settling in to. And through new developments like confabb’s great suite of tools and the self-organized “unconference” sessions, there are more opportunities for people to plug in and be heard than before.” - Dan Ancuna, Speak Out California!

Pics from TBA 2007

Check them out... some great shots of Obama. Just click on the Flickr tab.

It keeps getting better...

(via skype)Jon Mandell 12:35 PM michael moore is coming
Jason Rozenblat 12:36 PM what??? awesome
So it's starting to shape up pretty nicely. Here is the lineup of speakers as of today. Jon and I are heading out to DC Saturday morning on Amtrak, partying it up for the weekend, then getting ready for the conference to start on Monday. It's going to be incredible. Jon's favorite, Mike Gravel is going to be there too. This clip from the Democratic Debates is classic... this guy is great. I'll be sure to take tons of pics.