^^^^^ These!

Thanks so much for sharing, Kimba!

Hell, I love her husband.

Thanks for the report and pics, kimba!

After watching the video and reading the transcript at Kos, I really boogered up the buckeye part!

I observed something interesting today. Before the speechifying started, they played the "Forward" video. The part that got the biggest cheers was the part about the mission to kill Bin Laden. Then at the end when they scroll through the President's accomplishments, the part about killing Bin Laden got the loudest cheers. There were a lot of young people there. Students. Teens even. I think Bin Laden was like the boogeyman to our young people. Pres Obama slayed the bogeyman for them.

The other thing I saw today that impressed me was both young women and young men wearing pink "I Stand with Planned Parenthood" or "I'm Watching and I Vote" buttons and shirts.

Yabut, the cognoscenti over at the House 'O Malware say:



14,000 is "sparse attendance" to the Rmoney folks.

Kimba, AWESOME pix. (I just don't know what a buckeye actually is, other than the Ohio St. team. Will google.) Waiting for my FORWARD bumper sticker from ebay, anxiously.

I am so glad about the Planned Parent support. I'm hoping the new Funny or Die video released today is gonna help keep the GOPs out of our pants!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html

This is a buckeye. An inedible nut:


Here is the edible kind made of peanut butter and confectioner's sugar, dipped in chocolate. They are yummy nom nummins.


Here is how the natives use the buckeye nut.
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You gots to know this stuff about the #1 Battleground State.

Happy you had the experience, Kimba. And thanks for sharing the buckeye. I was wondering.

But I think I had a better view than you -- on the television.

Yeah, but Kimba's willingness to drive a long stretch, brave long lines & pass security, apparently bringing others with her, & to sit in bleacher seats for who knows how long until the Prez showed up really helps with the visuals... as the GOP is trying to make hay over the fact that the 18,000 seat stadium didn't get filled to capacity.

So, thank you Kimba, for putting up with a less comfy view than those of us who watched the speech from the comfort of our living rooms. Too bad you aren't as nimble on your feet as that 15 year old you almost lost.

Yeah, right Birthers. How about this huge Romney crowd? http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/ ... ?mobile=nc

Where's Kimba live again?

I don't know....,

OK, that would be like me traveling from the Salem area to the Bend area. Doable. Don't think I'm driving the close to 2500 miles to Columbus though.

Wifehorn's dad is a Buckeye. Class of '35, metallurgical engineering. He proposed to her mom at an Ohio State-Michigan game.

We like the Buckeyes here. But I don't carry a buckeye in my pocket for luck. Gotta remember, I'm a USC grad.





... I carried Trojans in my pocket in case I got lucky ...

Looks like a horse chestnut, We call them conkers over here

I was only 40 feet away from the President, and had a padded folding chair. Just to tell you what a good seat I had, look again at the picture of the President smiling. The woman in the red suit, eye-to-eye with me across the arena, is Frances Strickland. To her right is John Glenn. In the same row are Ted Strickland and Sherrod Brown. I had an awesome seat!




We met up with my phonebank peeps and all sat together. Here's some pics of the arena at 12:30 yesterday, half an hour before the Pres spoke. It was around that time they opened up the floor space to the right of the camera platform. That area was blocked off when we arrived. The thing the media was tweeting about was that the top level was half empty. I think the organizers made a bad decision sending people to the floor space. I think they should have filled the seats first. I think the place may have been technically "full" even though the seats weren't.





Two other events were happening on the Ohio State campus yesterday: The Capital City Half Marathon race went right past the Schottenstein Center, and the State-wide Science Fair. The local media, particularly the Wolf-family owned Columbus Dispatch and sister 10TV, had been broadcasting for a week that traffic, parking and logistics on campus were going to be a "nightmare". They deliberately discouraged people from coming. My phone bank made almost 700 calls Sunday and then I made another 200 calls on Wed inviting people to the event. Many 50s+ people we talked to said they'd heard or read about the "nightmare" and thought it was going to be a hassle, or they didn't feel they could stand in line or walk from parking or whatever. It really wasn't, but that just shows you how much influence the media can have when they want to slant a story a particular way. We arrived at the Schott at 9 AM, the Priority Volunteer line was in the adjacent parking lot. Luckily we had the benefit of Ohio Valley fog cover. It was almost chilly. They started letting people in at 10:15. We got through security at 11. Security was a magnetometer, empty your pockets, give your purse to a nice Columbus PD guy. It was no big deal. I'm thrilled some of my peeps got to shake their hands! It might have been a once-in-a-lifetime chance for them! I was liking the idea of my chair, but as it turned out, once speechitizing started at 12:30, I was mostly on my feet anyway.

My point with such a big over-explain is to tie into what Foggy wrote a few days ago about the media spending the next 6 months trying to make Rmoney look competitive with Obama. It won't just be a try, the media will absolutely make Rmoney competitive. The media called his the President's speech yesterday boring, not up to snuff. Bullshit. If you were in that arena, it was electric, exciting. People were energized. Look at the background of the pictures. The Real America was there yesterday. All sizes, shapes, colors, ages, economic status.

We can't be complacent. This is going to be a close election. The media will make sure of it. We have to go vote. If you support the President and you can do just one volunteer activity between now and election day, you might make the difference. Consider doing a voter registration day, a phone bank, vote early and then give people rides to the polls for the rest of the day. If you've thought about making donations to the campaign, instead buy some swag from the online campaign store and give it out to people.

(Edit.)

I'm in California, it won't be anything like close here. I did databasing for phone bankers the last election, & will probably do that again this year. The California phone banks essentially brought in the votes in Colorado, Nevada & New Mexico in 2008, and we probably can do it again. That frees up the locals in those states to do the door-to-door canvassing, based on high quality info identifying Obama voters. All of those states had early voting, and those states were in the bag already 2 weeks ahead of the actual election -- we databasers certainly knew it because our lists were showing that we had nobody left to call who hadn't already voted.

We turned North Carolina blue in 2008, with a lot of hard work and boots on the ground we can keep it blue.

What Verbie and I do in Virginia will matter, too.

I'll spend my time in other states.

Or perhaps this should define "sparse".

From my twitter feed "The stuff the media won't show you"

Ewww on both counts.