1. I've been teasing my fellow Clinton delegates, Rebecca McMillan and Jessica Clark, about their strategy of getting their picture taken with the various celebs. They have a very effective strategy which I will not reveal since I don't quite understand it, but it certainly works!
Imagine my pleasure when, wandering the halls, I happened to run into Harold Ickes, a major strategist for the Clinton campaign. Ickes is legendary in Democratic politics. His dad was a key member of the FDR administration.
I stuck out my hand and said, "I'm a Clinton delegate from Colorado." He put his arm around me, said, "God bless you brother," to which I said, "I wish Hillary had fired Mark Penn and put you in charge earlier. If she had, she'd be the nominee." He launched into a good-natured but profane tirade on the proportional representation system of the caucuses, which I enjoyed immensely and completely agreed with.
Upon returning to the delegation, I asked Rebecca to guess with whom I'd just shared a moment. I wish I had a photograph of Rebecca's face when I said, "Harold Ickes."
She topped me this morning though. Last night at the Brown Palace, Bill Clinton had a small party for members of his administration who now live in Denver. How Rebecca and Jessica managed to finagle their way into that one was a true work of sneaky art.
2. A picture of my friend, Daniel Kagan, wound up on the David Letterman show. It was taken while delegates were dancing and he was in an awkward pose. Everybody looks a little weird in a freeze-frame pic taken while dancing, which resulted in him being awarded "goofiest delegate of the day" by Letterman.
3. A Clinton delegate from Indiana and I were interviewed by a European television crew. They were filming a fictional story about a woman candidate running for president in the United States. Since the film would be shown only in Europe, we could ham it up as much as we wanted, secure in the knowledge that no one in the US would see it, which we then did.
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