jean carnahan's blog selected to dem convention state blogger corps

Jean Carnahan, remember her?, widow of former Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who will be forever enshrined in the hearts and minds of progressives everywhere by defeating John Asscrotch Ashcroft for a U.S. Senate seat while Mr. Carnahan was dead and buried. Jean Carnahan, briefly a U.S. Senator because she was appointed to fill Mel's seat which she lost a year later to Jim Talent, and apparently since those days a blogger (who knew, but recently it was reported that 1 in 10 Americans has a blog), was selected to be the Missouri representative in the 2008 Democratic Convention's State Blogger Corps.

The State Blogger Corps was the coveted seat with the delegations on the convention floor, which for those who can read between the lines, means one of the long shots, Warrior Ant Press, was not selected. It's hard to compete with political insiders, although it's a little hard-pressed to see exactly how hard-hitting any coverage of your party friends might be during the convention. Jean Carnahan's daughter, Missouri Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan will surely be on the floor with the convention delegates. In fact, we'd be a little surprised if Jean Carnahan wasn't already a convention delegate so having her blog there, just seems to insure that whatever party line the Democrats want distributed, she will surely distribute. It seems about as far from the 4th estate as you can get.

But fear not Warrior Ants, there are still bones to be thrown, and we might yet make an appearance as a member of the pundit class come August. Unfortunately, the level of access by the General Blogger pool to the convention isn't the same as having a floor seat, but if we make it, we promise to spend a week in August sleeping in our car and snacking on every free buffet table we can possibly find. And we promise to report on the convention happenings and shenanigans with our typical WTF? attitude - which largely mirrors your own. We'll make one more promise. You can look at Carnahan's blog, and please do, but we can state unequivocally, that on that blog, you'll never find a photo of a yak butter sculpture. And here you have two. That's the difference between the two blogs - yak butter sculptures. We have them; they do not.

We'll go through some of the state blogger corps in the coming weeks and examine them with our last remaining good eye and provide you, the dear and gentle reader, with our thoughts. But for now you can start your own border war by looking at the Kansas and Missouri picks.

Elsewhere:
missouri state blogger corps: fired up
kansas state blogger corps: everyday citizen