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By Rebecca, November 5, 2008 2:57 am

Just got back from the rally at Grant Park to watch President-Elect Obama delivery his victory speech.

Wow. It was just unreal. I don’t have any pictures, because I made the conscious choice not to bring my camera, but I’ll find some from elsewhere at some point and post or link to ‘em to give you an idea of what it was like.

I got there about 7PM with G and we probably got into the main staging area at about 8PM, after going through two ticket-and-ID check points and one metal detector security check point. The rally was held on the baseball diamonds directly south of Buckingham Fountain, for those of you who want to Google Maps it…the stage was on the east side, probably around a third of the way up all of the fields, facing north-west-ish. We were by the north-west entrance to the fields, on a slight hill.

When we got there the rally area was probably a third full, which meant we could have waded into the thick of things, but chose not to. First, being on a little hill meant we got to see better – from the middle of the crowd we never would have realistically seen Obama on stage well anyway. So, even though it was very far, we could see the stage clearly. It also meant we got to see the crowd, and boy what a crowd it was. I’m eager to hear how many people the police and papers are saying showed up, but I can’t even begin to try and figure it out. I just don’t have a frame of reference. But it was an amazing sight to see. (Note: As of writing this, Chicago Sun Times is saying “more than 100,000,” Chicago Tribune is saying 240,000, and NY Times is also saying 240,000, noting it’s a number from “city officials.”)

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By Rebecca, October 3, 2008 9:53 pm

Wanted to share some posts I’ve found interesting among (or, perhaps, amongst) the blogs I read regularly.

First, some politics. (Sorry, gotta get ‘em out of the way.)

• Over at Feministe, the had a post about a nifty site that has presidential campaign commercials dating back to 1952. Some very interesting commercials, many of which are horribly creepy…
• The Bilerico Project compares Palin to Pygmalion, noting “The talent of a George Bernard Shaw or the magic of Hollywood can turn a Cockney flower girl into a lady, depending upon the talent of the actress in the role, but there isn’t time enough to turn Sarah Palin into a serious candidate for the highest office in the country. Not believably, anyway.”
• Graphjam has a helpful chart on who benefits from the $700 billion bailout. (Hint: It’s not you!)
• A number of blogs noted Sarah Silverman’s new movement, The Great Schelp, encouraging Jews to get their lazy Florida grandparents to vote for Obama. Hilarious!

Enjoy!

-R

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By Rebecca, August 27, 2008 6:06 pm

From last night’s episode, on Michelle’s speech and news agencies saying she has to ‘prove her patriotism”:

“She’s a Democrat. Of course she has to prove she loves America. Unlike Republicans, who everyone knows loves America, they just hate half the people in it.”

Well put!

-R