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ObamaKerryDem

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2. I was there! :)
Tue Dec 13, 2011, 08:14 PM
Dec 2011

Found out about it at the complete 11th hour, from a random Twitter RT..it was well worth getting up early for! :

http://twitter.com/#!/latte_lib_86/media/slideshow?url=http://yfrog.com/esgq5jbj

By the time I saw the Tweet, the event was listed as "Sold out" on Eventbrite (it was free, but I guess they meant it reached full capacity?). But I really wanted to go and I know from other events I've been to that sometimes you can at least get put on a waiting list if someone doesn't show for their RSVP (it seemed even more likely given how EARLY this event started! lol). When I got there, I got in easily--they couldn't find me on the list, but said it was no problem and made me a nametag on the spot! I got to sit right behind JK in the row of chairs he sat down on when he first came in, though he of course soon moved over to the stage for his interview session. Got a GREAT view though and he was fantastic as always. So candid about the SC process and the GOP games that went on within it, including their deal breaker being, in so many words, a forced adoption of the Ryan plan. I loved his thoughts also about the 2012 election; his optimism about the President's chances and how he pointed out (truthfully!) the lack of vision and real 'idears' ( on the part of folks like Newt. I know there was a livefeed of the event--hopefully there is or will soon be video. It was great!

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