Long line to get into the Summerfest grounds for President Obama's speech. Missed the opening acts, couldn't directly see the stage, got wet in the rain and, like everyone, left happy and fired up!
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Well organized event - got some brief glimpses of O. Very diverse crowd. We left early- saw O's motorcade. The MPD did all the grunt work. Very few signs of King Vulgar's dept.
When over 80,000 people marched on the state capitol over walker's anti union policies where was the president?
When the democrats co-opted the Madison protests and sent in a recycled Mayor Barrett as Walker's alternative where was the president?
Now that the election is here, so is the president. It is simply amazing that after Obama throws Wisconsin under the bus during the Madison protests that people by the thousands would line up to see him.
Now you may forward the argument that he's the lesser of two evils or let bygones be bygones. However the fact remains that all Obama did was leave his sneakers in the white house and tweeted his tepid support.
I'm sure that the thousands that lined up to see him may see a great democratic president. I see a politician that says one thing, doesn't do it and then has nerve to come back and ask for your vote.
The people that I walked with certainly deserve a more honest and combative leader then what finally appeared in Milwaukee Saturday.
Waukesha County, Republican pols failed to kill it.
The Calatrava Addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum
Sunset on the lakefront, summer 2018
Milwaukee River empties into Lake Michigan
Wisconsin wind farm, east of Waupun
86 turbines overcame Walker's blockade
Skylight illumination in Milwaukee City Hall
The historic 19th-century building has stone floors, copper decoration, and iron work by the famous artisan Cyril Kolnic. Stop in and walk around.
What water, wetland protection is all about
"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.
Lake Michigan in winter
Milwaukee skyline
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Well organized event - got some brief glimpses of O. Very diverse crowd. We left early- saw O's motorcade. The MPD did all the grunt work. Very few signs of King Vulgar's dept.
When over 80,000 people marched on the state capitol over walker's anti union policies where was the president?
When the democrats co-opted the Madison protests and sent in a recycled Mayor Barrett as Walker's alternative where was the president?
Now that the election is here, so is the president. It is simply amazing that after Obama throws Wisconsin under the bus during the Madison protests that people by the thousands would line up to see him.
Now you may forward the argument that he's the lesser of two evils or let bygones be bygones. However the fact remains that all Obama did was leave his sneakers in the white house and tweeted his tepid support.
I'm sure that the thousands that lined up to see him may see a great democratic president. I see a politician that says one thing, doesn't do it and then has nerve to come back and ask for your vote.
The people that I walked with certainly deserve a more honest and combative leader then what finally appeared in Milwaukee Saturday.
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