Kerry Campaign Train In Lawrence KS. Who Goofed?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mudchicken

At La Junta where the train did stop, the DEM's said it was met by 10,000 people, the Denver papers say 5000 and the locals say they were lucky to get maybe 3000. (The town itself is less than 8500)....I wonder if Lawrence has three different stories as well...

An oops or somebody's "spin" on events....?

Of the Numbers,By the Numbers,and For the Numbers Is this a great country or what[#ditto][bow][bow][bow][swg] and always three different ways to look at something

[UPTRAIN]

The company that made it? It was built in like 1914, lol, I belive it's a Pullman, correct me if I'm wrong, but I agree with you mikey.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by garr

Wayne,

Not opinion, just speaking from his past stances. My reply was to the "who goofed?" question in the thread title. BTW, if the question had been about Bush, I still would have said "one thing for sure...it's not Bush's fault". Never is the main man's fault. You should be old enough to know that.

Jay

Jay,
If the moderators here want to provide a forum for political debate, I'd be happy to debate you, point for point on any sound-bite barbs you care to throw out, offering up countless examples of flip-flops on the opponent's record also.

However, I'm sure the moderators would rightly put an end to it, political discussions clearly not being what this forum was created for. We all have our political opinions, some just have the courtesy and good sense of not throwing them in where they don't belong.

If you feel this is the proper place for expressing your political opinions and the moderators concur, so be it. It would be sad to see a perfectly good forum ruined in this way.

Wayne

[Mikeygaw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

Good thing he wasn't in the military now, I heard when he got on the last car he snagged his sleeve on the vestebule door, did he get a purple heart for that? I...will now shut up.

no, he'll problably just have Edwards sue the owner of the car, the company that made it, the workers who made it, and anyone else they can think of.

[UPTRAIN]

Yeah, he had been up since like 2 a.m. the PREVIOUS MORNING, he was kinda undecided, but I think we know who HIS vote is now going to, I woulda been pissed.

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by UPTRAIN

Sounds like the UP dispatcher got pissed and told them they had no time to stop (I'm sure you've read UP is conjested already). I heard this news break on Rush Limbaugh's show, I almost called today. That young man in college was quite aggrivated.

That young college student had been waiting for over 24 hours[:0]!

[UPTRAIN]

Good thing he wasn't in the military now, I heard when he got on the last car he snagged his sleeve on the vestebule door, did he get a purple heart for that? I...will now shut up.

[garr]

Wayne,

Not opinion, just speaking from his past stances. My reply was to the "who goofed?" question in the thread title. BTW, if the question had been about Bush, I still would have said "one thing for sure...it's not Bush's fault". Never is the main man's fault. You should be old enough to know that.

Jay

[passengerfan]

Republican Engineer?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by garr


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Jay

If you're old enough to post, you're old enough to know your political opinions are inappropriate in a train forum.

Wayne

[garr]

One thing is for sure...it won't be Kerry's fault. From his track record(no pun intended), he probably had ordered the train to stop and not stop in the same directive.

Jay

[UPTRAIN]

Sounds like the UP dispatcher got pissed and told them they had no time to stop (I'm sure you've read UP is conjested already). I heard this news break on Rush Limbaugh's show, I almost called today. That young man in college was quite aggrivated.

[mudchicken]

At La Junta where the train did stop, the DEM's said it was met by 10,000 people, the Denver papers say 5000 and the locals say they were lucky to get maybe 3000. (The town itself is less than 8500)....I wonder if Lawrence has three different stories as well...

An oops or somebody's "spin" on events....?

[Modelcar]

....I just heard part of the story today on radio....and something that the train was about 4 hrs. late and arrived after midnight at that location and then only did a slow pass through there, etc....I don't know why it didn't stop if there were people waiting there but one thing I do know....Rush Limbaugh was milking it to no end today and playing it for all it was worth....One would think [by hearing his almost panic criticism on it], that he had complete control of it.......I have not heard why the decision to roll through the previous planned stop was not honored. Sounds like someone really goofed.

[espeefoamer]

I haard on the news that the Kerry special was supposed to make a stop in Lawrence, but instead went straight through.The conductor is being blamed. Anyone know the whole story?