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By Michael J. Smith on Saturday July 19, 2008 05:24 PM

I had an hour or two to kill today -- a slow, humid July Saturday in New York. So, motivated by a somewhat gin-fuelled nostalgia, I dropped in, electronically, on the NetrootsNation confab (The Circle-Jerk Formerly Known As Yearly Kos).

I actually went to this event, in the flesh, a couple of years ago, with mixed feelings. Watching the "live streams" -- a slight overstatement -- I found that the mixed feelings were much the same. Lots of these folks are intelligent and well-intentioned. But it's heartbreaking to watch them expending their spirit in that waste of shame known as the Democratic Party.

There was one bright spot, though: seems like hardly anybody went. It's painful, in a pleasurable sort of way, when the camera zooms out and shows the meeting room -- an expense of speakers in a waste of empty chairs.

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mjoe:

Now that is funny: "an expense of speakers." Given that the gathering was of self-designated Important Voices, the "expense" involved must have been quite high - a dime and a cup of tepid coffee? A fake-signed Adlai Stevenson martini napkin? One free Barney Frank on-line poker game?

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