Editor’s Note: This section contains NEWz reporter Eduardo de Oliveira’s daily blogging and reporting about the Democratic National Convention. He reports directly from the convention’s host city, Denver, Colo., Aug. 25-28, 2008, thanks to sponsorships from New America Media for Eduardo as well as nine other ethnic-media journalists from all across the USA.

Before Sen. Hillary Clinton even spoke yesterday, the recurrent theme in the back aisles of mainstream media, a story that went like this: when you hear about efforts ‘party unity’, it reads more like “lack of unity with the Clintons.” So I roamed the convention floor to check if N.H. delegates agreed.

For Russel Wheatherspoon, of Exeter, the media is not willing to listen to the New York Senator.
“A number of outlets try to make their business to turn her into a divisive, problematic person,” said Wheatherspoon, a Hillary delegate.

Before he set out to Denver, State Senator Lou D’Allessandro, of Manchester, admitted that Hillary would not be the best VP option for Obama.

As party unity goes, D’Allessandro says Sen. Clinton “means what she says,” and … well, you know the rest. D’Allessandro is confident that Hillary’s remarks “rocked the Pepsi Center and can really help bring the party to unification.”

State Rep. Betty Lasky, of Nashua, also believes that everything Senator Clinton has done since the speech in Unity, N.H., is truly meant to elect Barack Obama.

Despite any hard feelings, media hearts were melted when Hillary uttered lines such as, “when McCain and Bush get together in the twin cities, it’ll be hard to tell them apart;” She also earned applauses from the press room when said “No way, no how, no McCain. Barack Obama must be our president.”

As the media-politicians friction goes on, we may never distinguish winners from losers. But they seem to be enjoying each other in Denver.

• Eduardo A. de Oliveira is an EthnicNewz.org reporter. He is in Denver with 9 other ethnic journalists, all sponsored by California-based New America Media. Send your questions or comments to Oliveira: eduardo.ao@hotmail.com

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