Amazing - and huuuuuuge - photo from President Obama's Madison rally yesterday
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Should've used this at the end: 
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Great minds! 
as a fellow female senior (68), white but married, someone here at DU helped me when I was a non-tech-savvy "newbie" and didn't know how to either. I'd like to pass it forward.
Just above the body of the message text when you respond to a post, there is an rectangular form with "smilies" inside. Just click on that and the whole world of "smilies" will appear. The "sarcasm" thingie is there along with a whole bunch of good ones, although you may have to click on the [...] for it to display. See: Just select whatever smiley you want and click on it. The code will then be transferred to your message and will show up as a smiley when you post your response. 
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a Romney rally.
I don't see how you could squeeze one more person in there! 
If you click the photo link within this Tweet. I think it got reduced in size somewhat by DU:
http://twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/status/254274824342487041
President O has lost the young vote.....
rocktivity
Doesn't anyone want to be up close?
Would have to concede the size of that crowd runs to several dozen.......
@OFA_VA: Some of these folks have been out here since 9PM last night. Excited? We think so.
http://theobamadiary.com/
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Fantastic!!!!!!!!
I feel my heart is out there also 
FDR speaking before a crowd of 30,000 in Atlanta to announce the clearing of a slum. Old dilapidated buildings were being torn down and replaced with new and modern homes.
And what happens to the residents of those slums?
They get to move into those new homes at no cost to themselves.
Imagine the outrage of the Republicans at the time.
Today, they would go completely insane.
It's probably too late now as the residents have dispersed all over the country.
I wonder how many of them can even claim ownership of the land. Knowing the way things went I picture the city confiscating their claim on the property because they left. It's why so many tried to stay. They saw this coming.
In a just world Habitat For Humanity would have been deployed and thousands of construction jobs would have been created rebuilding all through the entire South. This would have created jobs all over the country in manufacturing as new appliances and plumbing and even nails were ordered, not to mention lumber and roofing. Quarries producing raw materials for concrete and drywall, the truckers delivering supplies, and then there's all the warehouse workers and office people needed to process and track everything. It could have been amazing.
Instead,...it still looks like this:
BTW: The residents have a message for those who think it would be cool to drive through the area to see the devastation.
And noticed it was a really large crowd. Not sure where it was but the size of the crowd for Obama was impressive. Wonder how Mitt's crowds are sizing up? Guess with his stellar performance the other night, they are coming out in droves. Wanna bet we can show them up with a surge in the number AND enthusiasm of the Obama crowds???
Obama was not born in the U.S.
I'm betting it was done by the same people who fixed the unemployment numbers. 
