The Boston rally is on C-Span right now! n/t

[wisteria]

[JI7]

1. just got home

[Luftmensch067]

3. Repeating on C-SPAN 1 at 1:28 and 5:28 EST

According to online schedule, anyway!!! Hope you can catch it!

[ginnyinWI]

2. That rally was so good!

JK, Teddy, and Obama all speaking. Obama's stump speech keeps getting better and better! It was great to see JK listening and applauding, especially when veterans were mentioned.

Keeping fingers crossed for a good turnout for Obama tomorrow!

[MBS]

4. darn, I missed the broadcast

but the real thing was fantastic (not that you'd know it from the Boston Globe... was a reporter even there? The Globe article only said that Teddy Kennedy and Deval Patrick were there. . didn't even mention JK or Caroline Kennedy, or that Teddy, Deval, JK, and two MA congressmen, Capuano and Delahunt, all gave rousing speeches. The article described Obama's speech as "hoarse and meandering". . WHAT? What I remember was how vibrant he was (and awake, which to me was astonishing, given the hour, and what he'd done earlier in the day).

As you might be able to see from CSPAN, JK gave a standing ovation to Barack at several points, notably when he mentioned veterans.. and he clearly was enjoying some of Barack's playful digs. .

Like other Kerrycrats, I kept thinking that Obama was saying , really, the same things that JK was saying in 2004 (the national-service-for-college-tuition , lots more. . ). Only, to our country's discredit, too much of our country didn't want to listen in 2004.

Took lots of pics, some good ones with JK, will attempt to download a few here in a day or so.. .

[Mass]

5. ah, the Globe reporting. No surprise that they avoided to name Kerry and

did not see Obama's enthusiasm. They seem to lean more and more towards the right. (sigh).

I found a couple of other articles mentioning Kerry, one on Time, one of Baltimore Sun:

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/obama_kerry_patrick_and_two_ke.html

Obama, Kerry, Patrick and two Kennedys in Boston

by John McCormick

BOSTON – John Kerry was one of those who helped propel Barack Obama to where he is today.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/02/kerryobama_full_circle.html

Kerry-Obama, Full Circle

(Though the Time article meanders into consideration concerning the order of the speakers last night that are simply ridiculous).

Dailyfreepress has the rallye as well with a much better description of the rallye
http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2008/02/05/News/FrontRunners.Campaign.In.Mass.On.Primary.Eve-3188565.shtml

At his own rally last night Obama, flanked by Sens. John Kerry and Edward Kennedy and Gov. Deval Patrick, drew a crowd of 6,000 and reiterated his campaign's trademark call for change.

"Change does not happen from the top down," Obama said. "It happens from the bottom up. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things."

Though Obama's speech began on a shaky note, he quickly found his oratorical groove and cracked jokes about his kindergarten presidential ambitions and distant familial relation to Vice President Dick Cheney. He ran through his planned approaches to the war, global warming, education, health care and taxes, but skated around the issue of economy.

Obama addressed his age and what others have called his inexperience, and joked about the need to "season and stew him a little longer, and cook the hope out of him."

I guess we have to get used to a second rate media in Boston/

[MBS]

6. it's now on CSPAN website 1 hours 28 minutes. .

enjoy!