Comments on: In person, more fun than the Shriners http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/08/27/in-person-more-fun-than-the-shriners/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 May 2012 00:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Joyce http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/08/27/in-person-more-fun-than-the-shriners/#comment-3586 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:35:25 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/08/27/in-person-more-fun-than-the-shriners/#comment-3586 Trust me, people were not sitting there chatting idly during Hillary's speech last night. That woman brought her A game! My neighbor is out there working the convention and she said people have been absolutely drawn to the keynote speakers. Many of the other speakers, I'm almost right there with you. (Although Michelle O held her own, too!). And I have NO DOUBT that people will be listening with full attention to Obama. I will be watching the snoozefest next week, too. I hope they're equally compelling so that people will listen to their ideas, but I just haven't seen the same dynamics and ability to move, inspire and motivate people yet like I do in Obama's camp. This isn't the typical convention sweeps. Too much history being made and too much at stake. Trust me, people were not sitting there chatting idly during Hillary’s speech last night. That woman brought her A game! My neighbor is out there working the convention and she said people have been absolutely drawn to the keynote speakers. Many of the other speakers, I’m almost right there with you. (Although Michelle O held her own, too!). And I have NO DOUBT that people will be listening with full attention to Obama. I will be watching the snoozefest next week, too. I hope they’re equally compelling so that people will listen to their ideas, but I just haven’t seen the same dynamics and ability to move, inspire and motivate people yet like I do in Obama’s camp. This isn’t the typical convention sweeps. Too much history being made and too much at stake.

]]> by: Doug http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/08/27/in-person-more-fun-than-the-shriners/#comment-3585 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:15:53 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/08/27/in-person-more-fun-than-the-shriners/#comment-3585 The closest I ever came to a political convention was at the 1988 Democrat Convention in Atlanta. I got to hang out with Tom Hayden, the lefty radical who was married to Jane Fonda at the time. Our association had nothing to do with politics, rather it had everything to do with baseball which given my own political bent, made much more sense. Like me, Hayden was a major baseball fan playing in an adult baseball league that had then been recently organized nationally for players over 30 years of age. Our league motto was "Why go soft when you can stay hard" which some claimed to be a rebellion against men transitioning from baseball to softball but others felt had a more sexual component. Hayden had contacted the Atlanta League ahead of the convention to inquire about the potential of playing in a game in our league while he was attending the Atlanta convention. Since I was playing centerfield for the team managed by the local league founder he ended up playing with us one evening. We put him in rightfield for a couple of innings and I remember asking him if he wouldn't feel more comfortable playing left. He got the joke. As it turned out, it would have been a hell of a lot more fun if I had been able to hang out with actor Rob Lowe at that particular convention. The closest I ever came to a political convention was at the 1988 Democrat Convention in Atlanta. I got to hang out with Tom Hayden, the lefty radical who was married to Jane Fonda at the time. Our association had nothing to do with politics, rather it had everything to do with baseball which given my own political bent, made much more sense.

Like me, Hayden was a major baseball fan playing in an adult baseball league that had then been recently organized nationally for players over 30 years of age. Our league motto was “Why go soft when you can stay hard” which some claimed to be a rebellion against men transitioning from baseball to softball but others felt had a more sexual component.

Hayden had contacted the Atlanta League ahead of the convention to inquire about the potential of playing in a game in our league while he was attending the Atlanta convention. Since I was playing centerfield for the team managed by the local league founder he ended up playing with us one evening. We put him in rightfield for a couple of innings and I remember asking him if he wouldn’t feel more comfortable playing left. He got the joke.

As it turned out, it would have been a hell of a lot more fun if I had been able to hang out with actor Rob Lowe at that particular convention.

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