Narcissistic, professional protestors and demonstrators, such as Recreate '68 and Code Pink, have continuously bellyached to local Denver officials every since the city received the 2008 Democratic National Convention, about the arrangements made to protect their free speech.
The protest site wasn't close enough to the convention center, the parade route was too obscure, the police won't reveal the equipment they are buying with federal funds to protect local citizens from protestors and demonstrations. Nothing has made them happy. Here it is, 11 weeks before the convention, and they're still displeased and letting everyone know it.
The real problem is that these people are stuck in a 40-year-old mindset, and haven't updated to the 21st century way of doing things. Now we are in the internet age, the era of instant communications with cell phones, PDAs, camera phones, etc. They are graybeards trying to recapture their glorious past, rather than blazing a trail for the future. Let's face it, if you were demonstrating at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, and were even only 18 years old, let along in your 20s or 30s then--that means you're at least 58 years old today!
That's the classic sign of old age: trying to recapture yesteryear's glory and chase after fond memories. That's great, but you're still stuck in the past. Old diatribes about how "the man" is trying to put us down, the system doesn't allow for dissent, etc. are hackneyed and fall on deaf ears.
It's a new era, of new technology and fresh, new wisdom and ideas. Obama didn't get where he is by campaigning like JFK or Hubert Humphrey did in 1968. If they were still alive, JFK would be 80 this year and Humphrey would be nearly 90. Obama is 46.
He changed the method and the message. It's time for the demonstrators and protestors to do the same thing.
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