Clinton and the Bloggers
CHICAGO - We’re at the second annual YearlyKos convention, where liberal bloggers have convened with excitement that almost all the Democratic presidential candidates are courting them in person on Saturday.
This was quite the coup, since a year ago at the first Kos convention, only one Democratic presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, showed up. (Unless you count former Va. Gov. Mark Warner, who tried to court the crowd with a lavish $10,000 reception that some found obscene.)
But now there’s a new twist.
The candidates are coming to speak on stage to the roughly 1,500 people here and then take questions in individual break-out sessions, which will have room for about 200 people each.
Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards are among those coming. And, it seemed, they were all participating in the break-out sessions.
While they are all still coming for the main show, it turns out that Senator Clinton is not attending the break-out session. Her campaign says it told the Kos organizers a week ago that she would not be attending the individual session, but the organizers did not announce it until tonight, at the opening dinner. The announcement drew big boos from the audience.
But hey, this is a tough crowd. Later in the evening, they booed
CHICAGO - We’re at the second annual YearlyKos convention, where liberal bloggers have convened with excitement that almost all the Democratic presidential candidates are courting them in person on Saturday.
This was quite the coup, since a year ago at the first Kos convention, only one Democratic presidential candidate, Bill Richardson, showed up. (Unless you count former Va. Gov. Mark Warner, who tried to court the crowd with a lavish $10,000 reception that some found obscene.)
But now there’s a new twist.
The candidates are coming to speak on stage to the roughly 1,500 people here and then take questions in individual break-out sessions, which will have room for about 200 people each.
Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards are among those coming. And, it seemed, they were all participating in the break-out sessions.
While they are all still coming for the main show, it turns out that Senator Clinton is not attending the break-out session. Her campaign says it told the Kos organizers a week ago that she would not be attending the individual session, but the organizers did not announce it until tonight, at the opening dinner. The announcement drew big boos from the audience.
But hey, this is a tough crowd. Later in the evening, they booed
source: nytimes.com
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