Scranton

October 22, 2008

Thomas Dworzak studies rallies for the Vice Presidential candidates.

It’s a little predictable to watch the teleprompter at work. You look down and read “we will rise again.” A moment later, Joe Biden says “we will rise again.” It isn't always so smooth – the candidate sticks an extra pronoun into the stump speech, he gets ahead of the machine and the staffers have to scramble to catch up – but it is hypnotic.

It was somehow touching to see Hillary there. Though she may have no issue with McCain, she must with Obama and Biden, since they are the ticket and she’s not. Still, she was cheerful. Maybe politicians just get over this.

Biden looked the part of a charming politician.

At the Biden rally, everyone was trying to be nice, to be embracing. This was not the case at the Palin rally in the day before, in Johnstown. When I went to take this picture, I thought that the woman would object. You would think she knew it was weird, but no, she was proud.