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my driveway is plowed in, and I’ve been running around this state like a Chicken with his head cut off for the last 3 days.
So this morning as my body asks me why I’m drinking Lambrusco at 1:30 AM while blogging I’m going to cook some breakfast and shovel out the drive and THEN worry about what is happening in the election…
…well ok I’ll watch a bit of MSNBC so I can see them squirm too. Missing the MSM’s reaction to all of this has been the one disadvantage of reporting this first hand.
…but there were plenty of people waiting outside to get in to see the President who were not let in. In my opinion this Fox report is misleading.
Cameron was inside and I wasn’t so I don’t doubt that he saw a hall that was not filled, but it wasn’t for lack of supporters as at least 500 people that I presume were Coakley supporters were not let in. I know since I was in the middle of them.
In fact I personally spoke to a woman with a cane and a pronounced limp who had been passed through but was sent back due to fire limitations. (more on her later tonight). Perhaps it was a question of security. There were easily more Scott Brown people outside protesting than Coakley people waiting to come in (more on that later) so maybe they were worried about screening out people who opposed the president and the candidate getting in so the campaign had to keep a tight leash to avoid mass heckling.
Either way the implication that she could not fill the hall is false and should be clarified by Fox.
However Cameron is absolutely correct that there is no comparison in terms of enthusiasm. Perhaps because I am less experienced than Robert Stacy but after what I saw today in BOSTON proper, continuing the Game 7 parallel it is the bottom of the 5th with the Sox up 8-1
Update: I like Gateway pundit a lot but it would be a good idea to correct this post on the subject.
Update 2: Stacy was there with the Brown people and can back me up.
Update 3: Holy Guacamole 2 instalances in one month! (eat your heart out Charles) and for once I’m at my PC when it happens! Welcome Instapundit readers I’ve had Robert Stacy McCain crashing on my couch this week proving that my wife is part of the World’s greatest family. You can read my first hand reports (and low brow humor ) here And you can find Stacy’s coverage on both his site, the American Spectator blog and the green room.
As we say in the North End. “Leave the candidate, bring the cannoli”
Friday night as I awaited the arrival of Bill Clinton I struck up a conversation with two Chinese exchange students doing graduate work at WPI. Both had been the US for 6 months and absolutely love it. They both hope to be able to find jobs to stay here, if not they will go back to China.
There they stood, two young men from a country that is our greatest rival and one of our potential enemies both about to be only 10 yards from the man who exactly one decade prior was the most powerful person in the entire world.
After they started moving forward I talked to a union steward who was there to support Martha Coakley. As we were both Italian we talked and had an awful lot in common. It was a pleasure to share his company and we both commented on how great a country it was where two guys like us could be just a first down away from the former president. We agreed that if we told our grandparents this, they wouldn’t believe us.
It was even greater than than he knew.
Consider, ten yards from me a man who was once the most powerful in the world was going to ask me to do something, and I was going to refuse with absolutely no fear that he would attempt to compel me otherwise.
Today after Mass (yes Adrienne he’s coming with me don’t get your hopes up) we are off to Boston to see the most powerful man in the world who will ask, not order ask me to do something that he really wants me to do for the sake of an agenda that he really believes in…
As on Friday I will refuse. As on Friday I will do so with the safe assurance that he will not attempt to compel me nor order others to do so. In fact even if he DID order others to do so, I have the certainly they they would refuse such an order.
That is the greatness of America, that is the freedom of America, that is the compact between the government, represented by President Obama and the Governed, represented by me.
Today I will be in the presence of a politician that I considered unqualified for his position, a product of a corrupt Chicago machine. A man I have criticized and ridiculed many times in the past and likely will criticize and ridicule many more times in the future. I will also have the great honor to be in the presence of the elected leader of my country, my president. I see no conflict in any of those statements. That is America!
Update: The Obama rally has been pushed back a few hours, good thing too because there was plenty to post about this morning.
Q: What is the difference between Robert Stacy McCain when he is making a political point and when you are in a bar with him while he is holding court and having a few?
Oh and BTW while we were at the Boarder Grille and Bar in Leominster first for supper and then for beer there was one interesting change. As I’ve mentioned before, everywhere I go I ask the people what they think of the election and what people are saying about it. The bar was the first time that a person told us that people were talking about the race.
And what did young lady of a bartender say? Everybody hates Martha Coakley and likes Scott Brown.
The times they are a-changin!
Update: One disadvantage of posting at 2 a.m. when you have been up since 6 a.m. and driving all around the state is you forget your manners, I didn’t give a shout out to the authors of American Glob or Left bank of the Charles who came to Leominster to Join us till the wee hours of the morning. My bad guys the next round is on me.
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