The Second Coming..........

A second trip to a Bush rally in two weeks. I would have never guessed this would happen so soon. Bush had a change of schedule at the last minute and now will show up at Alamogordo this Sunday, October 24, 2004 at the Alamogordo soccer field.

This was in response to a smashing turnout to Sen. Domenici’s early voting rally at the White Sands shopping mall in Alamogordo, New Mexico on Wednesday. The Bush campaign abruptly put Alamogordo on the map for a presidential visit before the National election.

A limit of 10,000 tickets is to be handed out with 5000 handed out in Alamogordo and 5000 in Las Cruces located 50 miles away. The news was so early when it came out, the lines were so small by Friday night that I was able to get my ticket at the Alamogordo's fairground booth in about 2 minutes flat. I asked a few people waiting for the tickets that they, too, were surprised to hear the news. But by Saturday the crush to get the tickets in Alamogordo changed all that when the news finally caught wind.

I checked the George W. Bush website for the calendar of events and saw that Alamogordo was not even on it. This was a last minute adjustment by the Bush team to come here and I'm happy he's coming to Alamogordo this time, again, as he did a year and half ago.



My first Bush rally ticket.

A few weeks ago I was in Hobbs, NM for a Bush rally that had about 25,000 people there. It went great, a little cool for everybody, and I was almost standing at the very back. Bush still looked good far away. This time I plan to show up a few hours before the gate opens at 12:15 PM to get to the front as possible for the Bush rally in Alamogordo. And also, bring a better digital camera with a 5-megapixel camera with a zoom len rather than a stale 1.2 megapixel camera I used at the Bush rally in Hobbs. Big mistake. How often do I get in my lifetime to see the President of the U.S. for the second time and avoid the mistakes from the first time? Pretty good karma for me right now.