Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

As I watched President Obama's speech Wednesday night, I thought back to that late-August night in 2008 when he made his acceptance spee...

I shouldn't be reading Hunter Thompson this week. I should be reading something hopeful. Last week, during the Republican National Con...

It's not Flashback Friday or Throwback Thursday, but we are venturing back eight years to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. ...

Eight years after... In August 2008, I spent a week as an embedded blogger at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  We we all so ...

I have a decade-long history on Blogger. This can be a bad thing, as I can still see some of my more embarrassing writing and photographic m...

Some of you may be wondering what hummingbirdminds thinks of the current election cycle. OK, maybe you don't, but hummingbirdminds is ...

It was too bad that many thousands of Democratic Party volunteers and supporters didn't get to hear President Obama's acceptance s...

In my attempt to return to the heady month of March 2008, in which hope was in the air and the Wyoming Democratic Party caucuses were mobbed...

On this day four years ago, I mused about the possibilities that presented themselves to Wyoming Democrats. We were all aglow following reco...

Big crowd of Laramie County Democrats cheer their faves during the 2008 caucus in Cheyenne. Four years ago today, lines were around the ...

From my blog post four years ago tonight: Some 10,000 people packed into the Arena-Auditorium tonight at the University of Wyoming in L...

Return with us to those halcyon days of yore (March 2008) as Wyoming Democrats prepare for their largest-ever caucuses on March 8. On this...

2008 button for Barack Obama's visit to Laramie On this day in Wyoming four years ago... Barack Obama's campaign announced tha...

Wyoming was all atwitter four years ago this week when news came via MSNBC that former President Bill Clinton was coming to Wyoming to stump...

Four years ago, Obama supporters in Wyoming were brimming with hope. We also were making scads of phone calls to Democratic voters, urging t...

Four years ago today, my fellow Dems and I were canvassing the county for Barack Obama, a relatively unknown politician from Chicago. I...

I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming, area code 82009. My house is located less than ten miles from the Colorado border. It might as well be a mill...

2008 seems so long ago... The first post on this blog to carry the label "Obama" was on Feb. 6, 2008, "March 8 Dem Caucus ...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz at a 2009  town hall meeting in Florida  Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), new chair of the DNC, spok...

Slightly-doctored photo of me at the 2008 Democratic National Convention wrap-up at Mile High Stadium/Invesco Field in Denver. We were unsto...