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Submitted by Linda on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 2:18am.
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Very nice view!
Great pics
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
All good seats that night
Now I have to go back and see if I can find you in my crowd photos. Sitting near us was a younger Hampton look-alike. He had to keep explaining he wasn't Hamp.
I think I can find our seats, if not us, in your big crowd pic.
I'm going to use my very limited skills with photoshop to see if I can isolate them (with your permission) to show you where we were, to see if you have a picture of us.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
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Linda?
Ayyup
That be Linda!
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
Yes!!!
Now I don't have to photoshop!!! Mwah! That's me. On my left is my better half Grace, whom many of you met at the Blogger Bash. On my right is the elusive David, who tried to be the coolest dude there, but screamed his lungs out when Barack Obama arrived.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
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Linda
Of course I'm crazy, I'm a blogger. What's your excuse?
Dagnabbit
Linda, it just makes me aggravated that you were RIGHT THAR and we didn't meet up.
You have no idea how many brunetttes matched the description
you gave me. We should have agreed to meet in the ladies room during a particular speech or something.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
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I know, I know
I had a naive concept about the early portion of the evening, and actually believed in the possibility of us spotting each other -- until we got there and saw all the cars. HUGE. What a dumb brunette!
The point about the cheap seats is dead on. We actually abandoned our table and found two chairs that were being used to hold the ropes in front of the camera stand directly facing the candidates. These were great seats -- especially when one stood on 'em.
Cheap Seats
Most of the cheap seats had better views than the floor - I can now recognize each speaker just by looking at the backs of their head...
Seriously, many folks had uneasy feelings about the inegalitarian appearance of adding on stadium seats. I think it was a great idea to bring something this historic in the reach of many more Democrats.
But it does bring into sharp focus the importance of money and fundraising in politics, and how that can lead to imperfect solutions, especially when we must cater to larger donors. For every $1000 table, 40 $25 cheap seats needed to be sold.
I see this issue in my own battle. I have hundreds of small donors, but when my opponent gets $40,000 from state-wide PACs, many maxing out at the $4000 level, I need 400 $100 donors or 1600 $25 donors to match that. Or I can kiss the "ring" of very large donors, which on average has better "bang for the buck" on limited candidate resource.
This is where I ask you to step up and buy the "cheap seats" on the Ed Ridpath Campaign: http://EdRidpath.com/donate.
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Ed Ridpath
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Well Said, Ed.
But I've got to tell you, I don't think that you had nearly as much fun down there looking at the backs of heads as we did up in the nosebleed seats where it was okay to snark on someone's big butt (not saying whose), have running commentary on speeches, talk and laugh with neighbors, cheer, etc.
The men didn't have to wear suits and neckstranglers in the cheap seats. Women were in comfortable clothes. I broke down and wore a skirt, but most of the rest of them were in jeans and tee-shirts. Little kids in shorts and flip-flops. The Democratic Party. :)
We met new friends. It was cool - well, it got cool once the sun went down.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
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Nice shots, Linda
Of course I'm crazy, I'm a blogger. What's your excuse?
Thanks, Lou.
They were actually taken by my better half, Grace, who you can see sitting beside me in Greg's picture. We tried some video of Barack's speech, but the acoustics of the place made it impossible with our camera.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
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