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Introduction
The recent Georgetown grad from Chicago’s south side who’s introducing Howard Dean just had a great line: “The truth is, President Bush isn’t on vacation in August. He’s been on vacation since he took office!”
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Kevin Conlon on stage
Kevin Conlon, Illinois state chair for Dean for America, just took the stage. “Did you get a 35 day vacation?” “NO!”
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Press have arrived
The press just showed up on the risers; I just spent 10 minutes talking with Mark Silva at the Orlando Sentinel who’s been traveling with the tour since Virginia. More on his observations shortly. The crowd is growing!
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Webcast will start around 11:50am central
You can watch it here.
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Crowd just started letting in
The music is playing, and the crowd just started showing up. It looks like the predicted thunderstorm will hold off for a while (we may be sleepless, but we prefer to stay dry!) and there’s a nice breeze keeping us cool. Someone had a great idea and has been handing out “Dean Rags” – just…
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Live from the Sleepless Summer Tour!
Greetings from the Terrace Rooftop at Navy Pier in Chicago! Thanks to the guys at SoapBox I’ve got wifi access and can blog the whole event! I should also thank Mathew Gross and Nicco Mele of the Dean web team, who were generous enough to hook me up with a press pass so I could…
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Fundraising goals for Q3
USATODAY.com – Now a player, Dean raises campaign goals For the three months ending Sept. 30, Dean is setting his sights on $10.3 million — the amount Bill Clinton raised in the same period of 1995, when he was president. That was the best performance by any Democratic presidential candidate in a single quarter the…
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Hey Ernie!
Check this out: OmniOutliner Export to iPod 1.0 | iPoding | What’s that in your pocket? View your OmniOutliner documents on your iPod! Download this disk image file for two different scripts to either export outlines so that they show up in the iPod’s Contacts menu, or in the Notes menu for newer iPods. I’m…
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The Techie prez
I guess this doesn’t come as any surprise: CNN.com: Bush says he’s ‘not a gadget guy’ But I really would’ve loved it if they’d included this set of photos:
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2002: My security profiling suggestion
When the TSA announced they would stop asking those asinine questions at airport check-in, I had a follow-up suggestion to the TSA which has oddly enough not been implemented: People sitting next to me tend to be a bit odd. Whether they’re a threat to the plane, they’re certainly a threat to me getting anything…