4:.00 pm
We are here at invesco. It is pretty cool. Our delegate seats are really close. The place is filling up quickly.
4:10 pm
Jennifer Hudson just blew the audience away.
4:15 pm
Walking through this place is on big clusterf*ck. The aisles between the seats are too narrow. Delegates are being rude when you walk through their seating row.
Oh snap the teleprompter is right behind us. Haha. We can just turn around and read it.
4:58 pm
My congressman. My congressman. My congressman. Rules!
5:24 pm
There are large empty sections. Don't know if its because the line to get in has an hour wait or what? Not sure what it looks like on TV at home.
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Your congressman (who is also mine) does indeed RULE! What a great night for Georgia!
I love how at 4 it was cool, and at 4:15 it's a cluster..love Nita.. you rule too
I don't know if any of you can confirm this......did anyone see Hillary? I was told by an Obama campaign insider that she was asked to go home, so she would not "steal" the spotlight from Obama.
If so, that's pretty disgusting and not what I call unity by any definition. It is customary for members of the Senate, including former candidates, like Richardson, for example, to be included in the acceptance speech as spectators. She is, after all, a Super Delegate. This afternoon TV was saying she and Chelsea would be in the front row with Al Gore, and I couldn't see her.
Now if this is a rumor, PLEASE tell me so I don't sign up to work for McCain. If it's true, then is this UNITY? She didn't KILL anyone...she just ran for president.........
On a better note, looks like HRC won her fight to have HER health care plan as a party plank, because NOW he is running on it, and BRAGGING about it as if it was his.....oh well, as long as it gets written and passed, who cares.
The Polls say he is behind by almost 30 points in the area of National Security and ability to handle Iraq...?? go figure. That's a shocking number.
He is even or a point ahead in the economy......he has his work cut out for him, and speaking for myself, a way to go before he wins me over. I will work for Jim Martin for sure, but not sure about BO.
Hope you all had fun, safe travel home, and lets get together at Manuel's when you get back so the rest of us can hear all about it.
OH! One more thing. All the McCain folks and the pundits had it wrong. The stage set wasn't a Roman Amphitheatre......it was the WEST WING of the WH, the Rose Garden! I recognized the windows from the Show "the West Wing". Happy Trails and thanks for keeping us in the loop.
Hi suzie from atlanta,
This is from a blog I read from time to time:
"Senator Obama's speech last night at Invesco field--as it must have appeared on TV and the web--was surreal, historic, and glorious from start to finish. I watched in almost silent awe, blubbering like a baby, my flag waving furiously in my right hand... taking my eyes off of the most eloquent speaker of our time only to turn around and periodically gauge the reaction of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was sitting about four feet behind me (So was Madeleine Albright, Gov. David Patterson, Mayor Villaraigosa... nyyyeah, I had some okay seats). Clinton--who looked radiant, rested, and redeemed nn a chic, ivory suit--was both gracious and warm for the speech's duration, clapping the "Yes We Can" beat longer than all of the others in her private box, listening seriously and then grinning like a beauty queen when all was said and done. The display was so warm and fuzzy that it had me singing Operation Ivy's "Unity" in my buzzy brain all night, and imagining that everyone in the stadium was like, totally holding hands and forgiving each others' differences and stuff."
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