So I saw Nader... Took notes even... Some stream of consciousness, some edited...
Nice turnout... Sold out even... So Props to my boyscout pal Rob for snagging tix well in advance...
Decided aginst tape recording, and that's good cause my seat was in an accoustically unsound (pun vaguely intentional) position...
So I'm just sitting here resting my bones... Wait, isn't that a pixies song lyric? eh.
So I'm waiting for Nader to get this thing started. And I've got assorted Ramones songs running through my head. Oh yeah. Oh Oh.
Hurm. 15 mins after the cheduled beginning and people are still flining in. Standing room only even...
Ok, now he's here. and he's sitting not 10 feet away. And I think that's a secret service guy with him. hurm.
College student doing the into seems like a nervous high school student. Considering the crowd I don't blame him... Poor guy does ok I guess. And here's Ralph...
wow... Impressed by lots of what he says. But far too much to do justice ere... So I'll just drop a couple of quotes and observations that I jotted down...
Our idealism peaks around age 11. (small laugh, but still sadly kinda true...)
Congress unconstitutionally gave up the power to declare war...
military- 60% of gas masks and 90% of chem/bio weap detectors efective.
Called G. W. Bush a Messianic Miltaristic on a revenge trip. And proceded to bak the assertion up. Quoted dubbya as saying Saddam "Went after my daddy."
Among American groups wanting to talk to W. about the war and their opposition to it was the National Council of Churches. A group that got a face to face with Tony Blair, but not even a polite turndown letter from it's own govt.
All in all, Nader was interesting. Those qoutes were mostly from the first part of the speech. I stopped taking notes mostly and just listened. One thing I did notice was the amount of nervous laughter in the crowd about things that were more scary than funny. Boy, I'm gonna fill up the pagge here... More tomorrow...
Nice turnout... Sold out even... So Props to my boyscout pal Rob for snagging tix well in advance...
Decided aginst tape recording, and that's good cause my seat was in an accoustically unsound (pun vaguely intentional) position...
So I'm just sitting here resting my bones... Wait, isn't that a pixies song lyric? eh.
So I'm waiting for Nader to get this thing started. And I've got assorted Ramones songs running through my head. Oh yeah. Oh Oh.
Hurm. 15 mins after the cheduled beginning and people are still flining in. Standing room only even...
Ok, now he's here. and he's sitting not 10 feet away. And I think that's a secret service guy with him. hurm.
College student doing the into seems like a nervous high school student. Considering the crowd I don't blame him... Poor guy does ok I guess. And here's Ralph...
wow... Impressed by lots of what he says. But far too much to do justice ere... So I'll just drop a couple of quotes and observations that I jotted down...
Our idealism peaks around age 11. (small laugh, but still sadly kinda true...)
Congress unconstitutionally gave up the power to declare war...
military- 60% of gas masks and 90% of chem/bio weap detectors efective.
Called G. W. Bush a Messianic Miltaristic on a revenge trip. And proceded to bak the assertion up. Quoted dubbya as saying Saddam "Went after my daddy."
Among American groups wanting to talk to W. about the war and their opposition to it was the National Council of Churches. A group that got a face to face with Tony Blair, but not even a polite turndown letter from it's own govt.
All in all, Nader was interesting. Those qoutes were mostly from the first part of the speech. I stopped taking notes mostly and just listened. One thing I did notice was the amount of nervous laughter in the crowd about things that were more scary than funny. Boy, I'm gonna fill up the pagge here... More tomorrow...
no, really.