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http://www.newsweek.com/id/154878
"GOLDEN, Colo.) The city manager of Golden, Colo., has decided to withdraw his invitation to let the Al-Jazeera news network broadcast from a barbecue in his backyard on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
City manager Mike Bestor has apologized for any divisiveness he caused in the city of about 18,000, about 15 miles west of Denver.
Bestor made his decision after a City Council meeting Thursday at which residents complained the event with the English-language service of the Middle East news network would be disrespectful to veterans and active U.S. soldiers.
Al-Jazeera is based in Qatar and is funded by the royal family of the Persian Gulf nation. The network says its English service reaches at least 100 million households worldwide."
Here's my take on this: If the DNC doesn't re-examine the lack of acknowledement of what a few of us see as a pessimistic prediction of the U.S.'s last chance at a 360 degree authentic American implementation of social justice action, America will continue to decline. Our struggle to fulfill daily and very basic survival needs will become legendary. A fruitless reality of what it's like to be American in the here and now. I did a little checking even though I thought I knew the answer to my own question. Unfortunately, I was correct. Michael Bestor is a registered Democrat in active status in Jefferon County, Colorado. If officials powering the Democrat National Committee don't stick up for Michael Bestor, I believe any potential peace in the Middle East has been affirmatively compromised. The richly diverse religious multi-ethnic status of Obama is getting flushed down the toilet. To extend the phony patriotic notion of the righteousness of not dining with Al Jazeera in order to support our troops and our veterans is business as usual. Once again, we have been embarassed by the xenophobic "bipartisan" people. The "Repo-dthems"(the "d" is silent) have spoken. Michael Bestor has been barbequed. And so has any Democratic foreign policy.
