Bush is outside my office
He's here for a fundraiser - right across the street. It’s kind of anti-climactic. Streets have been closed off all day. Traffic re-routed. A zillion cops and other large armed men were out and about.

Right now, I’m trying to figure out how to get out of the building without being taken down by any one of the hundreds of members of the security force. I'm menacing with my grotty messenger bag full of dirty gym cloths.

It was scary enough trying to get a sandwich a few hours ago… now that the big guy is here, it should be much worse.

There was an AP story that implied things were more interesting than they are. I’d say a few hundred people turned out on either side of the party lines. And aside from the people attending a fundraiser, not many people came out to catch a glimpse of the President.

In fact, I heard someone outside (a smoker, who worked in the building) say something along the lines of "You know, when the smoke break is over, most of these people are leaving." To which her colleague replied, "You know it wasn’t that long ago that two million people turned out to see the Patriots."

She’s totally right.

Now just a couple hundred people are chanting "No more Bush."

Labels: 2004