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Edited on Wed Oct-20-04 11:58 PM by chookie
Started standing in line 2:30. Wasn't it a great crowd? Gosh -- I love y'all. Ooops -- I mean "yins". Everyone was so nice and so positive and so enthusiastic and so well informed and fun. I met two lovely ladies -- one from Russia and other from Iran, and we had a fascinating conversation about the complex geopolitics of Central Asia, and how critical it is to stop Bush now! Lots of old folks turned out, and to those of you who were there with kids -- boy, do you have great kids! The kids were all smart and positive and I just loved them for their high spirits and civic responsibility so early in life.
I didn't manage to get up front like the people who have posted above, of whom I am insanely jealous -- I will tell you why I got stuck away from the stage even though I had a ticket and had passed through security after having arrived early below -- because it was such a great event and I don't want to bitch, just yet anyway.
RM -- I think I saw were you were -- kinda behind the bleachers with the cops holding you back, right? That's too bad, and I am so sorry that happened to you. But y'all sure took care of the flying monkeys who were there to disrupt. Yeah, I heard them TRY to start chants, but y'all shut them up right quick, and I salute you all!
It was wonderful to see all the energy and the outpouring of love for John Kerry. The people there are passionate about the issues he raised -- the war, the war-profiteering, the wacko economics -- and how they cheered when he talked about promoting science and new industries in America again! THESE are the folk who do the science and initiate or man the progressive industries, and we have all seen what President Pinhead has done leading us backwards! We KNOW we can lead, as we always have, for heavens sakes! -- we need a president with a vision of future possibilities -- not this retrograde plutocratic pirate war-mongering shit we have been subjected to these last few years with disastrous results for all but His Chimperial Highness's closest pals.
I yelled, I shouted, I whooped -- and so did 19,999 others there. It was really something to be a part of.
There were a couple of rowdies up front -- whatever they were saying was making Kerry laugh, because he stopped speaking at one point and said, 'gee, I'm getting a lot of suggestions about what I should do to George Bush -- some of them are a bit risque! Am I glad you don't have a microphone!" He was so relaxed, quite the master of the moment.
As for Mama T -- she is so loved here, has been for a long time, since she was the pretty and highly accomplished wife of our late great Senator, John Heinz. We all ADORE her.
BOY -- it was energizing and cathartic. Some of you who know me will probably know me as one of DU foremost pessimists, but these days, Kerry is so impressing me, and I have been so moved by the quality of good folk who support him, that I am starting to feel good about the future again.
<begin bitching> I arrived early with my ticket and waited for hours to go through security. Talk about the camel passing through the eye of a needle! They really kinda messed up on calculating the crowd size, and he crowd moved like a glacier in molasses in January drawn by underachieving anaemic sloths with rheumatoid arthritis who had been hitting the Ambien before setting out . The wait was simply GEOLOGICAL! Lines stretched in all direction for blocks and blocks and blocks and blocks. But that wasn't the worst of it. After FINALLY getting through security, I was instructed by a Kerry volunteer (young guy, shortish, curly brown hair) to "get back there on the lawn behind that fence -- NOW!" The stupido directed me to go where I ended up LEAVING the venue and found myself standing with people who did not have tickets and did not want to go through security. It was a vast distance from the stage. No one seemed to know where I needed to go to get back in, so finally I just said fuck it, and went all the way around and went through the long line AGAIN and through security again -- another 1.5 hours. That was a bummer -- although I guess I should try to control myself if i ever see that shithead again and at least wait until AFTER Nov 2 to rip his muttonhead off -- although maybe the Kerry campaign should send him to the Bush camp to sabotage THEIR rallies and piss off their supporters. The Kerry organization here, God bless them, are a little slow on the uptake and regularly infuriate me with how stupid and disorganized they can be. Despite my apoplexy-inducing run-in with the future Darwin Award winner volunteer who directed me out of the venue -- the bulk of the volunteers there were simply marvelous -- boy, did they work hard and keep our spirits up -- even those of us who had to go through security twice. <done bitching fer now>
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