"One of the things that makes Republicans furious about our current president is their idea that Obama is always apologizing for America's biggest mistakes. Unlike President Bush. Who was one of America's biggest mistakes."
Protesters in St. Paul are being tear gassed. What does it look like? Well, in the YouTube age, citizen journalists come close to the action to find out and then get lumped into the crowd when special tactics are used.
In the above link, Marta and Brian, the two-person crew of the vlog Gnooze (the G is silent - www.Gnooze.com) visit the protests in St. Paul on Tuesday night. They are taking shots of the crowd when the gas starts to go off. They report to have heard no official announcement from the St. Paul police, just a word of mouth as people in the front of the protest whispered back into the crowd reports of police readying canisters.
If you've ever wondered what it might look like to have lines of authorities fire tear gas and flash grenades at you in a dark and unfamiliar city, click on the link. While the footage is disturbing, that fact that there is actually footage speaks worlds of citizen journalism.
The neglect and abandonment of New Orleans three years ago has come back to haunt the GOP in ways that were literally unimaginable, and that threaten to overwhelm the party as thoroughly as the city of New Orleans was overwhelmed three years ago, as Hurricane Gustave threatens a devastating landfall.
The fear of all their folly being underscored for all America to relive once again has actually driven them to scale back plans for their convention, and possibly even cancel it entirely if conditions worsen. Simply toning down their festivities does not seem to be an option, so badly have their played their hand.
"But the good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on...."
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