January 21, 2005
DC
A big thank you to my guest bloggers Jessica, Dorian Davis and Dawn Summers for holding down the fort while I was in DC. They did a terrific job. Definitely check out their home sites and look for them to guest blog here again soon.
I got to see the president twice, once at the Texas/Wyoming ball to which I had a ticket and once at the Independence ball to which I just walked right in sans ticket hoping to find a friend of mine (didn't happen, though I did run into various other friends at the T/W ball including Jim and his lovely wife, Herman Cain's campaign manager, and a log cabin Republican guy I knew at NYU- who, bizarrely enough, almost accidentally gave me this guy's business card).
I thought there would be a lot more protestors then there were. In fact, short of people wearing anti-Bush buttons randomly walking around DC, I only saw one protestor outside the convention center (which was home to most of the official balls). He was carrying a 'Nader Lives' sign. As I walked by him I said 'you know no one loves Nader more than Republicans, right?' He said 'come home with me'. I said 'uh, no thanks' and went to get in line for a cab.
Posted by Karol at January 21, 2005 06:07 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
They let you just walk right into a party that you had no ticket to and the Persident was going to be attending? With no security check of you at all?
Posted by: C at January 21, 2005 08:31 PMIt was in the same convention center but you had tickets to your specific party. There was security when you came into the convention center. At each party there were ticket checkers but they somehow missed me.
Posted by: Karol at January 21, 2005 08:51 PMThanks for responding. That makes me feel a little bit better.
Posted by: C at January 21, 2005 09:05 PM
