I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
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After spending over six hours in the blazing sun, I managed to gather several pages of notes of observations of people and things happening as people got ready for the appearance of the Democratic presidential and vice presidential nominees, Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Joe Biden of Delaware. The following are pictures and observations taken over the course of the day.
Here is the head of the line at 3 p.m. when I arrived at the C.O. Brown Stadium.
The sun was blistering, and if you were in the media, there was nowhere to work without being in the sun. Here a reporter from the Detroit News has placed his calendar book over his head to protect it. The temperature in the infield was over 90 degrees.
Members of the Junior ROTC were marched into the inner area at about 4 p.m. They entered to a standing ovation. They shortly stood together at attention, and their sergeant released them to drink from their canteens.
Obama Michigan Assistant Political Director Michael Blake, Obama Michigan spokesman Brent Colburn and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow greet each other after Stabenow made her way through the crowded C.O. Brown Stadium. She was greeted with thunderous applause, and numerous people jumping up to shake her hand. Incidentally, Colburn was Stabenow’s spokesman when she sought re-election in 2006.
An image showing the full stadium and the crowd surrounding the pitcher’s mound stage.
“They’re Great!” The Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box presented by State Sen. Mark Schauer to the Obama campaign.
The Obama-Biden Road Trip Bus pulls in. The black buses, there were two, carried the Obama-Biden media pool, as well as the candidates. the white buses carried the traveling press. Interestingly, I had staked out the space, realizing where the candidates would make their arrival and walk into the stadium, but about 45 minutes before they arrived, Secret Service ordered all the media out of the line of shot area.
Hundreds of supporters were stuck behind the media risers, and thus were unable to see Obama and Biden. As a result, Michael Blake became a photographer for many of them, literally running back and forth with a half a dozen cameras at a time.
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