{"id":195,"date":"2008-08-27T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/08\/a-few-snapshots-from-the-democ.html"},"modified":"2008-08-27T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:07:49","slug":"a-few-snapshots-from-the-democ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/08\/a-few-snapshots-from-the-democ.html","title":{"rendered":"A Few Snapshots from the Democratic Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another image you won&#8217;t see at the Republican convention. This sign, for a booth set up by the condom company, Trojan, was there Monday morning and gone by Monday afternoon so I suspect it was, er, unofficial.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/trojan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trojan.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/imgs\/trojan-thumb-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI find it much more instructive to watch the speeches with the real crowd rather than in the press seciton.  My seat for the Michelle Obama speech was way up in the rafters but thanks to all the jumbotrons, it was still quite powerful.  Her themes:  We have traditional family values, Traditional American values. We grateful, not aggrieved.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/my%20view%20for%20the%20michelle%20speech.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"my view for the michelle speech.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/imgs\/my view for the michelle speech-thumb-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nNot all that many protestors.  Here are a few protesting the war, their main complaint being that the Democrats haven&#8217;t pushed hard enough for an end to the war.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/imgs\/protesters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"protesters.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/128\/import\/assets_c\/2008\/08\/protesters-thumb-500x375.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another image you won&#8217;t see at the Republican convention. This sign, for a booth set up by the condom company, Trojan, was there Monday morning and gone by Monday afternoon so I suspect it was, er, unofficial. 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