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...respective states - Illinois, Nebraska and Rhode Island - for convivial conversations about what was going on in Afghanistan, life back at home, and the presidential campaign. "The food was good, but the companionship and friendship was even better," says Lt. Col. David Johnson, a public affairs officer who attended the event...
Criticism of her appearance in the blogosphere had been so high in the lead-up to the event that Gina Cooper, an event moderator, preceded her introduction of the Speaker with a warning against any agitation. For Pelosi, the potential for trouble at her Q&A session at the Austin Convention Center was everywhere. Codepink, an anti-war group organized by women, had its activists, some clad with pink spandex, capes and masks, lined up in front of the entrance, chanting slogans about impeachment. Several members of the audience, which numbered about 2,000, stood, waving copies...
...original version of this story said that Hillary Clinton's appearance at a 2007 Netroots Q&A session was greeted by boos. The writer confused that event with accounts of another Clinton appearance that had taken place earlier. Clinton was not booed at the Netroots event...
Obama had just come off the other side of a comedy controversy, after Bernie Mac went to an Obama event and told dirty jokes (a.k.a. what Bernie Mac does for a living). Comics Randi Rhodes and Penn Jillette took heat for nasty jokes about Hillary Clinton; John McCain, for joking about using U.S. cigarette exports as a weapon to kill Iranians. Partisans argued over whether Saturday Night Live was more unfair to Obama than Comedy Central was to Clinton. Across America, the body politic is busily making mountains out of droll hills...
...continent." The oldest pontiff to be elected since the 18th century is reputed to own an iPod and sends a daily SMS message to pilgrims, signing off "BXVI." Young people in turn have been invited to send text messages for display on giant "prayer wall" screens around the city. Event coordinator Bishop Anthony Fisher says planners want to make WYD memorable "by using new ways to connect with today's tech-savvy youth...