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October 29, 2008
Civics Lessons
We've seen McCain. We've seen Palin. We've seen Obama. If I make this seem like a big deal, understand that I had never before been to any kind of political rally.
I can't find the camera that holds the McCain pictures, but we were behind the podium, anyway.
We arrived an hour ahead of starting time for Barack Obama, and the line was amazing:
I'd say there was about the same amount of people for both the Obama and the McCain rally. We knew at that point that we weren't going to get in, so we hung back behind the crowd, in an area where we still had a decent view and could hear well:
That picture makes it seem like we were further away than we were. The view was actually much better than that. The bright light shows you where the podium was.
We were able to make it to the Sarah Palin rally much earlier, and had a much better spot:
If you look, you can see Tito the Builder off to the left there, in his yellow hard hat.
The kids had a much better time at this one. The crowd involved them, giving them signs and pom-poms to wave. Many of the people around us were high-school kids, cutting class. They were a hoot. We told them that they should get extra credit from their history teacher for being there; they laughed and said that there aren't any Republican history teachers.
And guess what? I know you'll be shocked. I know you'll be appalled. But you know all that racism and hatred the media has been telling you that McCain and Palin have been stirring up? What do you know - it wasn't there. There was no more "stirring up" of anything there than there was at the Obama rally. No racist remarks. No violent words. No mean chants. Nothing. Nope, not a thing. I just had to say it. Half of you already knew that. Half of you aren't going to believe me, no matter what. And half of you don't care. (I never was that good at math.)
Posted by lynx at October 29, 2008 7:31 PM
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