3 Oct 08
Abington, PA
After the Presidential debate,
during which Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) proved that he was quite
comfortable with the issues of the day and that he had an easy command
of all the relevant facts concerning them, his Vice-Presidential
candidate Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) debated the Republican Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin. Both debates were boosters for the Democrats. The
Republicans, at best, didn't embarrass themselves.
The rally was held in Abington, PA
(About 15 miles North of Philadelphia) and was pretty well-attended.
Our local
paper estimated that we had about 6000 people there.
Barack Obama referred to one of Palin's statements (that she had made in response to the CBS anchorperson Katie Couric's interview of her), that of "I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs." Obama pointed out at the rally that a report on the economy had just come out that morning, saying that the US had just documented that it was suffering its ninth straight month of job losses. BTW, this is hilarious!
Barack Obama referred to one of Palin's statements (that she had made in response to the CBS anchorperson Katie Couric's interview of her), that of "I wanted to talk about Barack Obama increasing taxes, which would lead to killing jobs." Obama pointed out at the rally that a report on the economy had just come out that morning, saying that the US had just documented that it was suffering its ninth straight month of job losses. BTW, this is hilarious!
We can really see the TV
antennas here. Speaking of Couric's interview of Palin, some very
interesting comments here as to how YouTube has affected TV
News and campaigns. Broadcast TV has definitely lost its monopoly.
Checking out this post, I'm not
so sure that's a bad thing. The case that the post makes is, essentially, that
the traditional news media has done such an incredibly poor job of
informing citizens, the raditional media is of course still competent to do things like
sports, weather and traffic, but they've become pretty much useless for
anything that requires some subjectivity.
Obama's opponent, Senator
John McCain (R-AZ), has apparently decided that he has nothing positive
to base his campaign for president on, so he's going all out on the negative
campaigning. Here,
he manages the amazing feat of condemning negative campaigning AND of
being negative in the very same sentence!
This was my vantage point. A close-in
crowd with us other spectators further back. Sound was decent, at
least. I notice all of the "blogger tables" in back of the crowd, set
up so that reporters can type away at their laptops as the speech
proceeds.
I
wasn't close enough to get a picture of Obama speaking, so here he is at
his Democratic
Convention victory speech.
And
a good time was had by all! We all finished up energized and ready to
campaign to toss out the current party of the occupants of the White
House and to get the Democrats in!
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