Yesterday was the usual Tuesday service project where we made a mess of sandwiches, both turkey and peanut butter. It was mellow.

Today, however, I had the privilege of attending a McCain/Pail rally in Fairfax, VA. I found out about it yesterday evening because a bunch of the crazies here were planning on going. Ultimately, I was just attending to see McCain and Palin in the flesh and indeed I did. Another dude and I left here at 6AM, took the orange line all the way to the end, hoped on a city bus in Fairfax and took it to where the shuttles aka school buses would pick us up. We ended up at this monster long line where we waited for about an hour to get into the park. Fortunately we made it into the park and got a pretty cool spot to see the podium. After about 5 local speakers, Fred Thompson made a surprise appearance (at least we didn't know he'd be there) and spoke for about 15 minutes, introduced Palin who spoke and then McCain was up. Because there were about 15,000 people there and a two lane road leading out, my friend and I decided to leave before McCain's speech was done. Best decision ever. The roads and buses were swamped leaving the area and we made it back to DC 2 hours before our friends who watched the whole speech.
All republicans were in attendance making it a cultural event as well. They were throwing out the classic lines about Obama voters lacking brains, shouting back at the boisterous Obama supporters who were attempting to persuade us all from our political doom. It didn't work. At the end, there was a lady with a microphone yelling things and a sign that said "Pro-war is not Pro-life." She got a few remarks including a lady who screamed at her "Baby killer!" and an old dude who said he wasn't afraid to die for his country. Oh republicans...
Also: oh democrats...
Also: I checked out the Constitution Party line today and was almost persuaded to switch, until I heard about their very isolationist type foreign policy. I don't think we can swing that in this day and age. What a bust. They were cool anyway because they combined Libertarian government style but with a Republican concern for the social issues.