Comments on: Liveblogging Philly

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:51:38 +0000

Maybe we ARE. After church today I was having a political conversation with a Democrat friend who was bemoaning the fact that he didn’t really like any of the Democrats–especially not Hillary and Obama. I mentioned a similar conundrum in the GOP–told him that there was really only one I liked, and when he asked who, I told him. You’d have thought purple slime was flowing from my eye-sockets, the way he looked at me!

His comment: “HE doesn’t have a chance.” My comment: “Maybe, but take a look at his fundraising numbers this past week and the movement that’s starting to have in the polls.” His comment: “What do you mean?” And when I started to tell him, he said, “Oh, well, by the time we get to vote in Nebraska, the media will have already decided who the nominees are.”

By: Rojas

Rojas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:29:14 +0000

You mean we’re not?

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:54:20 +0000

Well, as for myself, I find there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance associated with this campaign when you look at who’s on board. It’s better to just go with it than to try and make sense of it, I think. Otherwise we’d turn into the crazies they think we are.

By: Rojas

Rojas — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:24:33 +0000

And in retrospect, I should have been kinder to Rocky. I don’t think that his poverty comment makes any sense, but there’s a million worse (and stupider) causes to champion than third-world debt relief. So, my apologies to Rocky Lynn(e), and it’s good to have him with us.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:16:56 +0000

I should have come up and found you in the infirmary–I was probably pretty close to right beneath you in the bowels of the Coliseum–in the “press room” (the area for the non “big time” media folks). There was me, and some foreign journalists, folks from independent press outlets. You could have come down, borrowed one of our computers, and blogged!

As for Rocky, this is one of the strangest assemblies of people I’ve ever been around–even stranger than a major university campus. We’ll take ‘em where we can get them, though.

By: Rojas

Rojas — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:50:41 +0000

Yeah–I was actually there for more of the early events inside the Hilton Coliseum than most people were, as I had been forced indoors by my little episode. I got treatment at the triage center and went inside the main auditorium just in time for the LaPierre and Gingrich stuff.

Here’s what Rocky said. Good to know he’s full-time behind Paul; it’s a bit strange to think that supporters of One would be Paulites, but it takes all kinds, I guess.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:46:22 +0000

Were you conscious during Rocky Lynn in Ames, Rojas?

By: Rojas

Rojas — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:41:09 +0000

Rocky Lynn also played the Iowa Straw Poll; I recall he said something unbelievably stupid about poverty, but I can’t recall what.

By: ab.dada

ab.dada — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:43:54 +0000

After the CNN camera feed went to color bars, they removed the feed from their homepage. Almost real-time. Coincidence?

By: ab.dada

ab.dada — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:42:24 +0000

CNN covers Ron Paul on the TV and on their homepage. 3000 people show up. Anyone else shedding a tear for freedom?

He speaks about marijuana and hemp — and the CNN camera feed dies on me. Not the web feed, just color bars and a 3000hz or so hum. Wonder what happened???