THEIR SIGNS SAID HILLARY but their wallets said, "Gimme one of those Obama shirts." At least that's what it looked like to me outside the Constitution Center Wednesday night minutes before the beginning of the great debate between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary people and Hillary posters outnumbered Obama mammas, papas and union members, but not street vendors.
This entrepenuer said he staked out the southwest corner of 6th and Arch Streets across from the Constitution Center around noon and despite his corner being overwhlemed by Hillary-poster bearing enthusiasts, he managed to do a brisk business in Obamabalia such as T-shirts, buttons and longsleeve shirts reading, "He's Black and I'm Proud!!"
Despite being outnumbered something like 100-to-one (The Hillary people were organized out the kazoo) the Obama sign bearers seemed to co-exist harmoniously with everyone, including the anti-abortion protesters who showed up with eight foot-tall signs showing aborted fetuses magnified to the size of full grown men.
A block away the right to protest guaranteed by the Constitution was was being demonstrated by a group of about 100 people holding up "Free Tibet" signs with Independence Hall in the background. In the foreground was a large chest-high pale granite block with the words, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abriding the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grieveances." Below that it said, "The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."
Sometimes it all seems too good to be true.
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