Democrats: It's not easy being green

Throwing the "greenest national political convention to date" is easier said than done, as Democrats are learning the hard way... [snip]

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.

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...

[ah, but their punitive enviro-moralism measures are meant to control our actions, not theirs...]

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