Notes from a rally
The dotter and I arrived right on time, with our sign in the car. (The sign said “My mama ♥ Obama”, with an Obama with red, white, and blue hair hand-drawn by the dotter.) Half-an-hour later, OmegaDad arrived, straight from work.
We spent 2 hours by the side of the highway, waving our signs.
The dotter met Sharee, a young teenage cheerleader (she was very nice, but dayum she was perky and dayum she just kept chattering and chattering and chattering), and the two of them spent the final half hour doing cheers together. So now we have the dotter wandering around the house chanting “O-B-A-M-A! Hurray! Obama! Today!”, complete with cheer moves, splits and jumps, and we expect we will be hearing it for a long time to come.
We ended up with about 70 people. For Suburban Alaska, a big-time McCain/Palin stronghold, that was fantastic. I was expecting maybe 12.
Within the first five minutes, we had a “F*** that n*****!” shouted at us.
One guy kept shouting from his car, “His middle name is Hussein! His middle name is Hussein!”. We had a couple of people shout out, “He doesn’t salute the flag!”.
About 20% of the people who honked their horns at us were non-supporters giving us the thumbs down or the finger. Or devil’s horns. That last one puzzles me. Is Obama the anti-Christ? (This is a serious question–do some people think he is?)
But we had an amazing number of folk who honked their horns and gave us thumbs up, a few who leaned out their car windows and hollered their support, some big-rig drivers who blew their air horns for us, and a few people who drove home, got their Obama signs, and then drove by again to show their support.
There were also the McCain/Palin supporters who drove home to get their signs and drive by again to show their non-support, and one brave couple who went home, got a McCain/Palin T-shirt, and stood on the corner in the chilly drizzle to counteract us.
The local newspaper apparently was there, and some photographers.
All in all, it was fun, except for the very few asshole-ish drive-bys.
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