You can caption this photo.
Until I look at the local paper for the reports, I have no idea how big the crowd was. It had to be quite large for a workday.
This picture is good. She was using the popular GOP talking point about Obama wanting to "spread the wealth."
Here they are seen listening to Lee Greenwood sing his hit, "God Bless the USA."
I think I like this picture best of all. Here Palin is singing the national anthem with her brother. Her husband, Todd, was campaigning elsewhere. Palin also brought along her daughter, Piper.
I didn't bring my camcorder because I figured the crowd would be huge at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, but when I arrived there at 6:00 a.m., I was among the first to be there. I did get quite close to the stage and later got an autograph from her. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy to get close enough to do it, but I did it.
As these photos show, she takes a great picture. She is even better looking in person than on television. And, I have to note, she insisted her criticisms against Obama were not "mean-spirited."
The Las Vegas Sun had to revise its figures for the capacity of the room at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. It initially claimed 10,000, which is utter bullshit. I KNOW what 10,000-person capacity looks like, such as when our dictator spoke there in 2004. It was a different room than the one Palin spoke. Bush's was JAMMED at 10,000-plus. I would say 3,000 is an accurate figure for this smaller room. Remember, this is a workday, NOT a weekend, and NOT held at a college campus, as Obama's was a couple of weeks ago, where something like 14,000 showed up.
And there's this from News from the Ass... about Sarah Palin's children and their travel being charged to the state.
A few high school students on a field trip from Herlong High School in California thought she was more entertaining than Obama. They, too, must have been glassy-eyed from Obama's esoterica or bullshit or whatever you want to call it.
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I found out about this visit just yesterday, and too busy at work to even think about asking for some time off. Oh well. I would have like to have seen her.
She drew a good crowd, I thought. Some of the bloggers like the Gleaner tried to downplay it, but the local McCain/Palin office requested people get there early. A crowd of 2,500 or 3,000 on a workday, at a non-college place, was a good turnout.
There were probably 100 people ahead of me when I arrived just before 6 a.m. today. There were lots of vendors, just as there were lots of them at the Obama rally at UNR. I picked up quite a few political buttons there.
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