My Experiences in Boston

[dissention]

I got there Tuesday morning and parked under the Prudential Tower (my parking bill was over $200 by this morning ) and then checked into my room. Very, very nice place. I felt like the king of the trailer park finally moved right on up. Never ran into Glenn Close, though.

I was too late for the conference that Moore and HoDe were speaking at because the lines were a mile long. However, they came out onto the veranda/balcony and spoke to us in the crowd. It really burned my ass because I was so close to making it inside just as they started closing the doors.

Lemme tell you, I cried when Braun gave her speech. I thought it was beautiful because it wasn't the usual stump speech, it had a very classy sort of passion to it and you just knew that she believed in what she was saying.

I got to hear Teresa speak to the Gay, Lesbian, and Transexual Caucus with my friend Jamie and they LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED her!!!!!!!!!! She told a story about a gay man that she met at a fundraiser who said he'd always wanted a mother like her. Then she said to the crowd "If we win the election, you'll always have a mama in the White House who loves you" and then said "Just call me Mama T." What a woman.

My favorite speech of the convention was Sharpton's. It was AMAZING. He went over his time limit and ad-libbed almost all of it. They were flashing the red light at him from the back and he kept going. Everyone in the audience loved that man.

Last night after Kerry's speech, which I thought was fantastic and rivaled Clinton's (which I missed on Monday ), they had problems with the balloons. The assholes from CNN were sneaking up behind people in the audience and the nosebleeds and trying to tape their reaction. Who knows what landed on the live broadcast, but there were a lot of people asking "Where the f*ck are the balloons?!" Ron Reagan was great, too.

I SAW Miss Randi Rhodes, but didn't get to meet her. The girl loves pink, that's all she wore. I saw Hannity, who looks like even more of a douche-bag in person (and he DOES wear a LOT of make-up). I saw the whole CNN GOP crew because they were on the floor covering the whole thing. They're a bunch of assholes, especially that shill Judy Woodruff. That woman needs to go crawl under a rock. Candy Crowley stayed away on the side of the stage most of the time because she was pissing off the delegates (that's what I heard, at least). With the exception of Hannity, almost the ENTIRE Faux news crew stayed off the floor and in the skybox. And Hannity wanted bodyguards. I saw Moore walking around and someone told me he was interviewed by O'Lielly. Anyone catch it?

I read an article Wednesday night before I went to bed about how Moore and Bill Hemmer from CNN got into quite the row because Hemmer said something about people wanting Moore dead. I was in the crowd for Hardball with Tweety Matthews once on Tuesday night after the speeches, but I motored after five minutes and got a Coke at Cheers. He's a bastard, along with all of his buddies. Some woman was screaming "What about Lori?" in reference to Scarborugh's murdered intern.

I had a floor pass for Wednesday, but not for Tuesday or last night. It sucked, but the atmosphere of that convention made up for it. The love that I felt from everyone that was there was unbelievable. I can't even put it into words. Probably the best experience of my life.