The next story is the pièce de résistance. Lawrence, Kansas is a typical college town, very liberal. It's where the University of Kansas is, and very liberal. Lots of professors there, lots of students, lots of students that date the professors, and it's just all that you've thought liberal academia is rolled into one little population center -- and so Kerry and Edwards are going to go there, and they're gonna drive through there on the train.
"More than one thousand cheering people greeted the Amtrak train carrying candidates Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards as it rolled through town just before one a.m. The train passed the station moving about 25 miles per hour, as the last car cleared the station platform, Kerry momentarily stepped outside and waved, before ducking back inside. The train arrived an hour and 15 minutes after campaign organizers had predicted, not promised, and almost five hours after the crowd began assembling." So the crowd got there at eight p.m. hoping to see Kerry on a train. It gets there at one a.m., Kerry comes out the back window and waves as the train speeds by at 25 miles an hour, and then the crowd yelled, "That's all?" in what I think is the metaphor for the whole Kerry campaign. "That's it? That's all?"
"There was a collective groan that evolved into roars of laughter before the crowd quickly dissipated. Julie Tucker of Lawrence said, 'Well, at least they thought they'd do a slow roll.' 'I think they sped up,' said one Lawrence policeman working crowd control. The train was headed toward Denver as Kerry and Edwards spoke to thousands of people at Union Station in downtown Kansas City." I got to tell you about liberal Lawrence, Kansas. They hate Bush there as much as they hate Bush anywhere in the country, and they desperately want to love Kerry. They were told the train would stop, and that Kerry would speak, and so they came, they saw. He didn't stop, he waved. That was it, at 25 miles an hour from the back of the train, at one o'clock in the morning, and a guy in the crowd says it all. "That's it? That's all?" Guy nailed it. That's all there is from Kerry: a wave and a then a duck back in. This is "believing in America," my friends, a stinking wave to crazed followers in a liberal college town at one in the morning?
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