The AJ: A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow

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A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the LOGO/HRC Democratic Presidential forum known as Visible Vote '08 in Los Angeles (Studio City, actually). As Mad Professah mentioned a few weeks ago, this is not a debate, but actually a series of sequential appearances by presidential candidates who will respond to questions from a panel of journalists, celebrities, and activists. The order of appearance is Senator Barack Obama, former Senator John Edwards, ~~Senator Christopher Dodd~~ ("scheduling conflict"), Congressmember Dennis Kucinich, former Senator Mike Gravel, Governor Bill Richardson and last but not least Senator Hillary Clinton.

With all these presidential candidates in town, I have been trying to think of the correct collective noun to describe a collection of presidential candidates. There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like "an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles. I like the word "cacophony" but this was after I rejected "cluster" (influenced by The Daily Show's Clusterf@#ck to the Whitehouse) and "bevy." What word would you pick for the collective noun to describe a group of politicians?

At least three of the leading Democratic presidential candidates are having much-discussed fundraising events associated with the first ever LGBT-specific presidential forum in ~~Boystown~~ West Hollywood and other areas. Hillary Clinton's is $50 (or $1000 if you want real face time with the candidate) at The Abbey), Barack Obama's is $250 at Arena (managed by the same company that runs The Abbey!) while John Edwards is $15 at Republic Restaurant, across the street from Barack's (hoping for spill-over?). Mad Professah will definitely be at the Barack Obama event (You can RSVP by donating here) and may stop by the Edwards event also.

LGBT Blogging bigwigs Rod McCollum (Rod 2.0) and Pam Spaulding will be in town for the event. Pam will be live-blogging the debate for Pam's House Blend.