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Inside the Tent: British Conservative Party
Philippa Broom from the British Conservative Party — invited by its sister party, the GOP, to attend the convention in St. Paul — speaks about why America’s presidential pick is important to Britain. This video was shot by Inside the Tent contributor John Steward.
Reuters Inside the Tent equipped more than 40 delegates and other attendees in St. Paul and the Democratic National Convention last week in Denver with video cameras to capture the conventions from the ground up. Steward is not an employee of Reuters, and any views expressed are her own.
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Inside the Tent: Stop Bird Porn
Does the Audubon Society know about this?
Amid the anarchists, pro-life picketers and anti-war protesters at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Reuters reporter Ed Stoddard talks to a fervid anti-birdwatching activist.
Yes, you read that sentence correctly. The shadowy organization “Stop Bird Porn “ is concerned that birdwatching is a “gateway” to voyeurism: “If people start with birds, they move on to squirrels, bears, mountain goats and eventually humans.
[Editor's note: Our highly attuned sarcasm detectors have determined that there may be a bit of satire going on here.]
Last week at the Democratic National Convention, Columnist Dave Barry took on the Stop Bird Porn crowd in Denver.
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Inside the Tent: Will Bush be missed?
Hurricane Gustav may have sucked some of the fun out of the Republican National Convention, but will John McCain‘s campaign miss the presence of President Bush? Inside the Tent contributor Joseph Irvine speaks with Richard Himelfarb, a professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. http://mediacdn.reuters.com/blogs/2008-09-02/23.40.02-f9fd469dbf0e921d09f296769e09f5b6.flvReuters Inside the Tent has more than 40 delegates and other attendees in St. Paul and Denver, equipped with video cameras to capture the conventions from the ground up. Irvine is not a Reuters employee and any opinions expressed are his own.Click here for a full list of contributors.Click here for more Inside the Tent blogs.Click here for more Reuters 2008 election coverage.
Do they miss Yellow Fever?
Sometimes the cure can render us forgetful of the disease, but maybe in this case Bush will go down as the most notoriously bad president of all time.
Lord Byron famously said of his mother ‘How can I call her mother when she is not my friend?’.
The same sentiment applies here.
How can you call Bush a good president when he is not even a friend to the American public?
He will NOT be missed at all!
Inside the Tent: Moby
Barack Obama supporter and activist musician Moby talks to Inside the Tent contributors Shai Goller and Patti Moon about his predictions for the Republican National Convention.
Goller is an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, and Moon is a TV producer and graduate of Northwestern University. Both are working as interns for Reuters during the the Democratic National Convention.
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The real truth is that, as in Britain, after a couple of terms of one party, it is good for everybody to have a change. It keeps up the pretence that democracy is working, if nothing else. The real pity of these elections is that the choice to be made is an invidious one – neither candidate has any real merit at all. Where are the great statesmen with genuine stature and principles? Surely there must be two such people in a country of more than 250 million people? Unfortunately they ain’t the people on offer.
In Europe we’re not doing any better: Sarkozy is an appalling spiv, Blair was a clever scheming opportunist, and Brown… well, the less we say about him the better.