Colorado delegate Nate Vanderschaaf sang along as Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising” began to play after Sen. Joe Biden accepted the vice presidential nomination at the Pepsi Center Wednesday night.
Vanderschaaf was singing the same song that blared Aug. 23 in Illinois when Sen. Barack Obama introduced his running mate.
Coffee and a series of pep talks, including one from Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Wheat Ridge, should have woken up any sleepy Colorado delegates during a 7 a.m. breakfast Monday morning.
During a brief speech at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, Perlmutter said the George W. Bush administration has “reversed history to back before the Magna Carta.”
Several of the 70-plus delegates and alternates in the hotel’s Imperial Ballroom responded to the harsh claim with “ohs.”
