Posted on 08/28/2004 5:14:56 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Go to the GOP Convention site for interactive chats, an electronic backstage pass, program schedule and news.
Please share stories and pictures of the convention.
Godspeed to Iowa Granny and Hillary's Lovely Legs on their trip to the convention!
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-MA) (C) and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry (2nd L) look for a place to windsurf off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 30, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young US ELECTION
It appears she's giving him instructions on where to go.:)
With regard to the kid apparently trying to assault Cheney, doesn't that just say it all about the Dems and their supporters? When they held their convention in Boston, they knew the only thing they had to fear was the drunken bums who sleep in Boston Common - no scruffy, masked Republican protesters roaming the streets, beating up cops and trying to assassinate politicians.
What is it with these people and pointing all the time?!
Did y'all see the Bush twins in the convention hall checking out the podium? They must be introducing their Mom tonight! Yeeeaaaahhh! They looked precious.
Hello from the convention!!!
It is amazing here. cops everywhere.
I am having a great time. I am calling in my reports periodically to BigWaveBetty. I am taking alot of pictures and sending as many camera pictures as possible.
I had lunch with Rick Lazio yersterday and took pictures with him and Katherine ( oh shoot, I don't remember her name. She was the Sec of State of Florida and now a congresswoman) I told Lazio my booksigning story with Hillary and he then said he was my new best friend.
Last night I was at the convention. I saw Ron Silver and took a photo for you all. I thought that he was fantastic.
I then went to a private Travis Tritt concert. I was in the very front. At the end of the concert the drummer threw his drumstick and it hit me in the head, so I told him that I was keeping it.
After the concert, around 1:30am, some friends asked me if I wanted to go play cards on a boat and so we went down to the pier. As we were playing cards the boat started to leave to dock. I asked when we were coming back, and they said that we were going out to watch the sunrise, so I didn't get a wink of sleep in over 24 hours.
I came home at 8am this morning as my roommate was calling the police looking for me. I was supposed to have my photo taken with Arnold Schwarzenegger but I looked to awful from no sleep and came back to the room and crashed.
I will try to get back to you all later.
oh, security to get into the Madison Square Garden takes over 2 hours. We are expecting protestors to try to stop the buses getting into the Garden tonight.
Stay safe and get a little sleep every few days.
Maybe the twins will be onstage. I hope so. I think I read somewhere that they will not be speaking.
We loved Ron Silver, too, by the way. Last night was fantastic.
(Katherine HARRIS, I believe)
Wow! Just getting to hear Ron Silver would be a BigTime deal! You make us feel like we're there...right in the swirl with you. Keep up the reports (and get some sleep).
TG2: The twins were checking out the teleprompters, so I assumed they'd be speaking...I hope so.
I was reading your comments about the World War cemeteries.
Reading "WWII" it struck me:
That's what we could call Dubya's 2nd term....Dubya Dubya 2.
Barbara, left, and Jenna Bush, daughter of President Bush (news - web sites), perform a sound check, as their mother, first lady Laura Bush, watches in the background, before the night's session of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
As for the Kerry campaign -- as one Democratic strategist surveying the the last three weeks said, they have gone from "delusion obliviousness straight to panic. Not even a pause at anywhere constructive." [LOL!]When are Dems gonna wake up and realize what losers they really are?!Yesterday, as the in-transition rapid response team flailed about, Kerry spent time on debate prep. It is unclear if there were any fiddlers present.
Wooo Hoooo!
CNN just confirmed the twins will be introducting their Dad tonight! He'll be beamed in from a softball game somewhere in the mid-west (perfect!) to introduce the love of his life, Laura.
This is all so fabulous - please keep us posted on everything! And have you seen IowaGranny. I thought she was taking her laptop. Are you out there IG? Stay safe both of you.
Sounds like a keeper to me. Good Job!
Someone did say that the twins would say something to the folks tonight after walking down the big aisle with their mother.
OMG, you wouldn't believe what I just did. I've begun doing CAD house designs for the homebuilder I work for...just started a couple of weeks ago. There's one huge 5,800 sq ft house I've been working on for a week...just finished it last night. And I just deleted it!!!! Arrrrggghhhhh! It's going to take me hours to re-draw it. Somebody kick me.
Oh no!
Sloooowly, back away from the machine and take a break, TO.
Is it time to partition the drive for working and for freeping?
Very good luck with it.
I feel for you! Maybe start saving projects (each time you save) with two names, i.e. whitehouse and whitehouse1. That way you'll have an extra if something goes wrong or gets deleted.
A VERY good idea. I'm going to do it right now!
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