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Report from Poplar Bluff, MO 22,000 cheering W to victory

Posted on 09/06/2004 7:16:02 PM PDT by openotherend

First some pictures. My server may be slow.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: aar; goprally; gwb; gwb2004
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To: openotherend

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)


(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

21 posted on 09/06/2004 7:31:59 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: everyone

Great crowd response in Poplar Bluff.

Kerry's in Cleveland was smallish and much less enthusiastic. Incoherent speech, nothing but a
diatribe against Bush.


22 posted on 09/06/2004 7:32:31 PM PDT by California Patriot (California Patriot)
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To: bitt
terrific pics! We just watched the re-run on C-Span, all the way thru...and then all the crowd handshakes...another 10 minutes! W seems energized and completely honest in what he says, he believes.

He seemed to be in his element. They passed a petition around town. I had a sneaky suspision it just would work and we got over 10,000 sigs. Jo Ann Emerson made it happen.

It is the only petition GW has recieved of this nature!

23 posted on 09/06/2004 7:33:13 PM PDT by openotherend
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To: openotherend

Thanks for sharing. Have forwarded the pics and comments to everyone in my email address book.


24 posted on 09/06/2004 7:33:57 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: openotherend
Great pictures! Great day! You must compare this to the Kerry rally near Cleveland....Day and Night (Except someone freeped it cause we could hear "4 more yrs"!)
25 posted on 09/06/2004 7:34:37 PM PDT by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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To: Steven W.

I stood for 10.5 hours straight today. I got in line at 9:00 a.m. and didn't sit down until I got back in my truck at 7:30.


26 posted on 09/06/2004 7:36:07 PM PDT by openotherend
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To: openotherend

Hope you took some refreshment with you.


27 posted on 09/06/2004 7:37:38 PM PDT by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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To: openotherend

The contrast between the people showing up at the Kerry rally today and at this Bush event is quite striking. Huge crowd, lots of smiling faces here and every one is having a good time. They still came even though the weather wasn't picture-perfect. The Kerry rally had maybe a fraction of this turnout, people who looked sour and depressed and no one seemed to have fun! Wide angle shots like yours tell you more about the state of a campaign than any poll will. Send these along to Larry Sabato - maybe he can tell you who he thinks looks like a winner.


28 posted on 09/06/2004 7:39:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: hoosiermama

Is that Tom Hanks?

Lower left corner of 1st photograph, he has a red shirt on with a goatee.


29 posted on 09/06/2004 7:41:27 PM PDT by rightvet
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To: openotherend

Outstanding~!


30 posted on 09/06/2004 7:44:30 PM PDT by Barlowmaker
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To: openotherend

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing your experiences at the rally with the rest of us. W looks like a winner to me!

FReep On!


31 posted on 09/06/2004 7:46:56 PM PDT by Angelwood (FReepers are Everywhere! We Support Our Troops! (Hillary's Vast Rt Wg Conspiracy))
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To: hoosiermama
Hope you took some refreshment with you.

I got in line at 9:00 this morning. I took a sandwich and two bottles of water. I drank the first and gave the other to elderly vet standing in line next to me. He asked me who much he owed me. I said you don't owe me anything, I owe you.

Then they started walking the lines passing out water to anyone.

32 posted on 09/06/2004 7:48:26 PM PDT by openotherend
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To: rineaux
great pics. what is tom hanks doing at the ralley? first picture, left side, guy in red shirt.

I think that's his brother Norman.

33 posted on 09/06/2004 7:50:14 PM PDT by openotherend
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To: goldstategop

Poplar Bluff population about 17,000 and the Pres drew from 22 to 30,000 people in the rain yet!

I don't know the population of Cleveland but it's considerably more than Poplar Bluff and Kerry only drew a handful.


34 posted on 09/06/2004 7:55:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Graybeard - Illinois resident - Keyes voter)
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To: zip

Ping


35 posted on 09/06/2004 7:58:00 PM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: openotherend

Great crowd and very enthused. I thought someone reported that about 30,000 were in attendance. Bush was visibly moved by the number of folks that showed up.

Of course Keith Oberman had to make a crack about Bush's remark re gynocologist's loving women, the only blurb or remarks shown from the hugely successful rally.


36 posted on 09/06/2004 7:58:24 PM PDT by adrian
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To: openotherend

GREAT PICTURES!!

Men & women, them there folks are Americans!! Didn't see a freaky looking America-hater amongst 'em. Contrast that with anti-Bush crowds.

Let's all see Bush cruise to victory. He is the George Washington of our day. Sometime look up what Washington said about the neccessity of war being taken to the enemies front. Can be found in "The Life of Washington" by Leonard Henly.

Thanks, you made my day!


37 posted on 09/06/2004 8:02:01 PM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: openotherend

Well, ain't we southeast Missourians something else? We worked to welcome our President and I think he received one that has outshone others so far. LOL


38 posted on 09/06/2004 8:10:27 PM PDT by Conservababe (Kerry, you said to "bring it on". The vets did. And now you threaten to sue them. Wimp!)
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To: openotherend

CNN just so happened to put a cameraman right in my view of W. He's the guy in the back with the video camera that looks like M. Moore. All of the other Photogs left the scene after W took the stage but the CNN camera operator continued taping.

Maybe somewhere in the CSPAN taping you can hear me suggest at the top of my lungs that CNN should move it's fat camera man's fat ass out of my way. I didn't stand in line that long to have some lard ass from CNN block my view. He moved shortly after that.

39 posted on 09/06/2004 8:17:34 PM PDT by openotherend
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Well, ain't we southeast Missourians something else?

Absolutely! I was born and raised their myself; but, am a Louisiana transplant now. I sure wish I could have been there today.

BTW, do you pronounce Poplar Bluff as Popper Bluff? I don't know about most people; from what I can remember we always pronounced it Popper Bluff. We weren't making fun of it or being silly. That was just our southern accent I guess.

40 posted on 09/06/2004 8:30:44 PM PDT by jamaly (Jesus And Momma Always Love You)
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