The parade was interesting, and I had a lot of great footage of Ned, his family, and hundreds of Lamont supporters marching.
The mounted police or some other horse troops led off the parade. I can tell they've been feeding the horses exceptionally well, because the parade route was decorated with impressive piles of bio-degradable "exhaust"; you really had to watch where you were going, which isn't easy when you are walking backwards to video the candidate and his supporters marching! Joe Lieberman also marched, although oddly, he lagged WAY behind the rest of the parade. After Ned and the Newtown Democrats marched, by parade's end there was a gap of nearly 20 minutes before Joe and his few supporters came by.
For the record, I have absolutely nothing to do with this person. But it WAS funny the way Joe shook his offered hand, and then got a good look at him and recoiled like something that smelled really awful assaulted his nostrels.The media was well-represented, and I even got my mic pushed away by the CNN camera guy when I was holding it up to Joe to hear what he had to say during their interview. I did get to ask Joe a respectful question, and I think Tammy Sun (Joe's new press secretary) was captured on tape squawking that the Senator had to get going NOW. He still answered my question, even though it was my usual on-the-run interview. Fun.
"*xyz" (from FDL, who came up from NYC to support Ned) and I got stuck in parade traffic, so I got to the Danbury DTC as Ned was finishing up his statements. But I got some good video of him speaking directly to everyone who wanted to talk to him.
All in all, it was a fun day. Video clips should be up in an hour or two.
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hello, bob ,i like the muppet
I missed it! There was a big flail, documented by Bushman
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/4/141222/4074
I was there. Wasn't that big a flail.
For the record, Bushman is a frickin' maniac. But a funny one.
Yes, Lieberman is god.
Fuck dude, you are a wordy S.O.B.! How 'bout breaking up some of your drivel into readable PARAGRAPHS?
There are so many things you don't understand that I doubt I'll get to all of them. But I'll try. Because, you know...I'm a giving person.
Joe was slow in a selfish, it's all about ME sort of way...you DO know that the Fire Trucks and the entire rest of the parade ran late because Joe felt he needed to shake EVERY single hand that offered itself to him. I've never seen such a desperate display of neediness in my entire life!
I was the guy with the camera, who in the spirit of good-sportsmanship and courtesy, told the senator to have a nice day and thanks for being a good sport. He understood, even if you don't. We can have dissent without rancor.
The baby incident was unfortunate, and in fact I helped talk the victim into not pressing charges. Because what counts is that we work to effect change. I'm sure nobody in the Lieberman campaign knew those idiots who tried to assault a man holding an infant. I would never accuse them of something like that.
The stuff they do everyday, as a matter of policy and as an expression of what Joe stands for...well, that's plenty to work with.
But thanks for reading "Connecticut Bob".
And have a nice day!
Bob, as always, you rock! Good to see you again today.
waiting....
Hey Bob, I had no idea you weren't a "real person" -- you looked real to me! Funny how Lieberman supporters are easily misled by Joe's lies, but than again, they are "real" lies so maybe that's where "truthteller" is confused? I guess "truthteller" suffers from the same problem with numbers like Joe does: he says "thousands of people” were loving up Joe today and Joe says only 15% of Democrats showed up to vote in the primary instead of the 43% that REALLY showed up. If “truthteller” wants to talk about the thousands of “real people” who aren’t political, how about the 2,600 plus real soldiers who have died over Bush’s illegal war? You know the war that Joe supports – now there’s something worth getting outraged over.
Wow Bob, you even have Joe's wife commenting here now!! Hello Hadassah, hope the lobbying is going well!!!
Wonderful, wonderful work Bob. I am so excited by the demonstration of democracy that you in Connecticut have shown. It's inspiring to see everyay people use their wits to break down the walls created by professional pols.
UptownNYChick
Maybe truthteller should just finish high school ....we are not interested in your grade school like essay on to embellish.
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