The Democratic National Convention

For those of you who don’t know, I live in beautiful Denver, Colorado. (I know, not as beautiful as Yerushalayim, but still pretty.)

The DNC is going to be in my hometown in about 6 weeks, and I plan on reporting a bit about the convention on this blog.

It is very likely that Barak Obama will be the next President of The United States, and this convention will officially launch him into the campaign against John McCain.

As the United States President has such a big pull on Israel and Middle East policy, it seems like a worthy event to discuss. I know many (possibly most) of my readers are Republican, so you probably will not like hearing about the convention. This is my blog, however, and I am going to write about it.

Just so you know how it is already changing Denver, Colorado:

• I work downtown, and several Light Rail (public transit) routes to downtown will be suspended and/or altered for the convention.
• Several major downtown streets will be closed.
• The Pepsi Center (home of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Mammoth, and Colorado Crush) has been comendered by the convention committee and is being turned into a convention hall.
• My company is in telecomm, and has been involved in routing thousands of miles of fiber optics to Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, where Obama will make his acceptance speech.
• Businesses and companies are preparing for an extra 50,000 people to be downtown for a week. I might work at home most of the week to avoid the crowds.

Do any readers live in St. Paul or Denver? How is the convention impacting your city? What do you think the platforms will say regarding Israel?