Greg Fuller: Orange Alerts Be Damned
Monday, August 2, 2004 at 07:04PM I attended the Kerry/ Ewards rally at Heritage Park
in Taylor MI , in the Detroit Area . It was a
beautiful hot sunny day that started about 4:00 with people queuing up
to get through the security . It was a great crowd of at least 5
to 7 thousand very enthusiastic people of all sorts of backgrounds
many sporting the Kerry/Ewards " Believe in America " tees
.
The event was well organized , a sort of big picnic complete with
a band that could play Glenn Miller to Black Eyed Peas . You could "get
your eat on" with free burgers and dogs or get your
face painted. And if you so desired, you could have the American
Flag colored in your hair or where hair used to be . It
also featured both of Michigans US Senators ,Debbie
Stabenow (who defeated the GOP incumbent last election) and
Carl Levin . Congresspersons Carolyn Cheeks Fitzpatrick
(Mother Of Detroit's Mayor ) , Sander Levin (Carl's
Brother) and John Dingell (introduced
Kerry) , were also on hand ; all spoke briefly and
received enthusiastic crowd support .
Kerry started speaking at about 9:00 and though
it had been a very long Day for him and his audience , he matched the
enthusiasm of the crowd chants of Kerry , Kerry with a rendition
of the points covered in his convention speech peppered
with just enough local flavor , current events and conviction
to keep it fresh for his enthusiastic audience who stayed for the
entire nearly hour speech
The many of the locals , remarked that they have not seen this
type of enthusiasm and crowd for a rally of this type since the 1960
's . Kerry also spurred the crowd to " turn
off the TV and talk to your friends and
family to get them involved " . If you contrast this "
anyone can attend enthusiastic crowd " with a tightly
choreographed Bush rally - it becomes obvious that this
Country is alive with dedication to make a change - Orange alerts be
damned
Greg Fuller, BrownWatch Contributor
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