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Liveblogging Dearborn

by: Christine

Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 12:41:00 PM EDT


(Bump! - promoted by djtyg)

Update 7:50pm:  The first pictures are up, below the fold.

Well here I am in the cage out behind the Dearborn Center.  I'm here with Ron Paul Supporters, Fred Thompson supporters, anti-war activists, etc.  I can only assume this is a free speech zone.  Blogging from pocket pc right now but if I can get wireless coverage I will upload some pics. 

More later.

1:05pm - audio interview with Bruce Fealk available on BFM Audio Blog.

1:15 - The Ron Paul 'Revolution' is on fire here.  They keep on coming, and some even have signs that aren't written in Sharpie.

1:45 - the most amazing support th troops rally is taking place out front right now.  They were told they had to stay in the cage but finally everyone agreed they could stay on the sidewalk.  I mean, what's a little 1st amendment compromise between friends?  And the Dearborn Police are positively intimidating.  I said hi to one and he growled at me.  What better way to keep a bunch of hippy communists in line than to be an a-hole?  But the Ron Paul people are fun.

2:22 Over 100 Ron Paul supporters out front, calling it the '2nd American Revolution.'  And they have a plane with a banner overhead, 'google Ron Paul'.  Crazy.

2:45 - WJR truck just showed up as I was walking back to car, and I'm pretty sure that was Frank Beckmann who just walked passed me in the lot.  A GOP debate ... Frank will have a stroke trying to figure out which butt to kiss the most.  Anyway this should be good for him ... so many lies to choose from, for his next show.  (It may not have been Frank but it sure looked like him.  Plus he seemed like the kind of guy you just wanna smack down.  So if it wasn't him, I am willing to pretend)

2:54 - WTF? Obama, Richardson, and Edwards pull out of Michigan???  Ok that tastes good.  Thanks, team.  By the way, another half dozen Ron Paul supporters just showed up with their hand-written signs.  G-Damn the Democratic Party sucks.  (I can say that, I'm a loyal member)

5:53 - I don't know why the audio blog feed didn't update, but here's the audio w/Bruce Fealk:


 

Pictures over the jump.  Heavy load

Christine :: Liveblogging Dearborn
The SCHIP & Support The Troops rallies are on my other disk.  I'll get to them:


Inside the free speech cage, a few demonstrators.  A cell phone pic.


Some love for the Gov in the parking lot.  Good to see among all the GOP stickers.


A bar across the street from the Center


Bruce Fealk swears these guys are NSA!  Overlooking the free speech cage.


The Ron Paul Revolution:



The skies above the Center - "GOOGLE RON PAUL"


These folks will do anything to get the word out.


And I do mean, anything!  (See above)



Ron Paul supporters on Mich Ave
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Cool pics (4.00 / 1)
Man, those Paul people are everywhere.

It was UNREAL (4.00 / 1)
The Ron Paul people owned Mich Ave.  Really.  When I first got there, there were 3 of them.  I was laughing at them & their home-made signs.  When I left, you would have no idea that there was any other candidate but Ron Paul.  The Thompson people never came up front (that i saw) and the Mitt Romney people were nothing but a tiny blip.

It helped Ron Paul that his supporters blended in with the anti-occupation / end the war crowd.

Best thing that could have happened to us this year would have been for Ron Paul to run 3rd party.

By the way the still pictures via the camcorder turned out a lot better, thanks to those tips you gave me.



If you're not interested in what a sit-downer has to say, it's going to take him twice as long to say it. ~my grandpa


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Joe NOllenberg (4.00 / 2)
Gets his picture in the Freep.

Check it out.


He made the TV, too! (4.00 / 1)
Fox 2 had a report on the protests and he was in there for a few seconds.

A voice in my head tells me not to be so mean to the conservatives.  I work very hard to ignore that voice.

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Great pictures (0.00 / 0)
Too bad the "Welcome Republicans" sign didn't pick up on DJ's suggestion and write "Welcome Republicons."

I'd love to see that sign make it onto the evening news.




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