Posted on 09/05/2008 12:01:35 PM PDT by milwguy
At a packed street rally here this morning, Republican John McCain used his first post-convention stop to promise a war on special-interest influence and excessive partisanship in Washington, D.C.
"We're going to start to work for the people of this country," McCain shouted. "It's over for the special interests. It's over!"
The Arizona senator joined Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, his vice presidential pick, in front of an ice cream shop on a well-preserved main street the city says is virtually unchanged since 1900.
Without mentioning specifics in a brief address downtown, McCain said the duo would visit small towns across America to talk about real change.
Palin drew the loudest cheers and chants of "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!" Both repeated popular lines from their convention speeches. McCain briefly touched on "tough times" facing job-seekers in Wisconsin and across the U.S. and promised lower taxes and better job training.
Palin focused mainly on the war in Iraq. She hit Democrat Barack Obama hard for opposing the troop surge.
If Obama's view had won out, she said, America would be less safe from al-Qaida, and it "would have left millions of innocent people to a violent fate."
The nominees chose one of the most reliably Republican counties in a hotly contested state to start the final two-month sprint in the marathon presidential race. Ozaukee County backed the Bush-Cheney ticket by 2-to-1 margins in both 2000 and 2004
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Tell that to Joe "Plug" "Borka, Borka" Biden and his lobbyist kid.
Palin’s the McCain we’ve been waitin’ for.
The local news station said there were 30,000 there - there’s a thread somewhere here on FR talking about it.
You have to upload them to a hosting site such as photocbucket or Tinypic first. Then use the html jargon to post them here. If you’ve never done it, it can be a pain in the butt.
Here's a link for Free Republic's famous HTML Sandox, a great HTML primer. Click the link, scroll down, and you'll see how to post pictures. You'll need to upload the pictures to a host first, like your ISP's FTP site or another site like Flickr or Photobucket.
Send me a message or post a reply here if you need help. I'm looking forward to seeing the pics!
Did you hear about Obama being in Dillonvale, Oh a couple of days ago. Fox said there were around 300 people that showed up!
Upload the pictures to picasa (a goog site), then send us the link to your shared web album.
They were expecting 8,000, I know there were way more than that. HOw they got to 30,000 I am not sure, but I would not doubt it. The number of women and teenage girls with Palin posters they made up was amazing.
Bumping for when the pics arrive!
My mother-in-law is from Dillonvale; I think 300 people would be about half of the population. :)
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You have a good point! But it is also close to Steubenville and they have around 20,000. I would think more people would have shown up.
http://mail.yahoo.com2) Get yourself a FAKE photo account at Photobucket, using your fake email account from yahoo [and, again, NO real names, NO real birth dates, etc etc etc]:
http://photobucket.com3) Upload your photos from your harddrive [or your flashdrive] to your Photobucket account [note that the largest Photobucket file size for the free accounts is about 1000 pixels X 1000 pixels]. Again, make sure that the file names are completely anonymous [you wouldn't want to use something like "MY_REAL_NAME.JPG" as a file name].
4) Once you upload your photos to Photobucket, get the URL for the large version of them [they will typically have a small, preview size, and then a larger full size], and, once you have the URL, use the <img src=""> syntax in your Free Republic post.
For instance, I have an Obama photo at this URL:
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff288/kayeyedoubledee/ardc_HIGHLIGHTED.jpgSo I use the following syntax in my Free Republic code:
<img src="http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff288/kayeyedoubledee/ardc_HIGHLIGHTED.jpg">And that produces the following picture:
Rush got the state correct (Wisconsin, not Iowa). Milwaukee’s Channel 4 reported a crowd between 20 & 30 thousand, which is probably where the number came from.
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