Carbon Footprints, Blue/Purple Food & Democrats
Posted by Raven on July 20th, 2008
This is damn freakin hilarious.
DENVER | Throwing the “greenest national political convention to date” is easier said than done, as Democrats are learning the hard way.
Amid much fanfare, Democratic National Convention officials have for months promoted their commitment to an environmentally sustainable event.
They’ve hired a first-ever “director of greening,” set an ambitious recycling goal of 85 percent, and banished plastic water bottles and plastic foam cups from the premises.
BWAHAHA…
With the convention a little more than one month away, however, it’s apparent that some Democrats are greener than others. Only three state delegations have agreed to eliminate entirely their carbon footprints by purchasing travel offsets, despite the pleas of convention organizers.
The heavily vegetarian “Lean ‘N Green” menu has touched off a slew of gripes, ranging from caterers who can’t find enough Colorado-grown organic vegetables to Denver City Council member Charlie Brown calling menu planners “the food police.”
When I think of Denver, and Colorado, I think STEAKS AND other beefy foods. Don’t they raise Angus cattle out there? The wild west is all about good food, not girly man veggie freak food. Carbon footprints? Go away.
The biggest environmental disaster to befall the convention hit two weeks ago, when the Barack Obama campaign announced that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would make his acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High stadium.
HE is theeee MESSIAH. We must never forget that. He’s teh rock stah of politics and no one need question him on these venue choices. If he had his way he’d probably demand to to accept his nomination at Mecca where tens of thousands more peasants can be seated in glowing bow to him.
The decision to move to the stadium threw a Chernobyl-sized wrench into the sustainability plan. Switching the venue from the Pepsi Center, which seats fewer than 20,000, to Invesco, which holds 78,000, threatens to saddle the convention with the Shaquille O’Neal of carbon footprints.
WELL!! Where’s Albore on this? How come he hasn’t come out and screamed green hot air over these plans? Oh wait…that’s right. The Borian is trying to save the other world, the one the rest of us live on and not the world the Dems live on.
This is just another example of out-of-control the Dems really are. They cannot come together on much of anything so this should not surprise anyone. The party controls the House and we see the lowest approval numbers in history, and this party out in Denver ought to be a Comedy Central show piece of epic proportion.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
So the Dems are figgering out that their “Green” movement and its requirements to return everyone to the 3rd century lest we harm Mother Gaia is not as practical. Sure, it sounds great to talk about recycling and eating carrots, but I’m guessing that the majority of Dems still enjoy some good red meat, hence the grumbling about the veggie delights.
And purchasing “travel offsets”? You mean Sales of Indulgences from the Church of the Goreacle? I wonder why they don’t want to waste their money on those? Perhaps because even the “Green” Dems realize what they are and don’t feel like lining the pockets of Al Gore and Co.?
Very telling indeed…
July 20th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I think Bore needs to exit the world stage and go live his life out. He should do it now before he is basically booted off the stage.