KERRY AT DUNKIN' DONUTS

"And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." (Acts 12:22)

Around 1:30 p.m. today, I stopped by the Framingham Coperative Bank/Dunkin' Donuts 
parking lot on Concord St. in downtown Framingham as I wanted to cash a check and 
pick up our church's night deposit bag.

There was a green panel truck in the parking lot with a big DAWN HARKNESS 
sign.  She is what Howie Carr calls a "Moon Bat" (a MoveOn.Org type).   There was 
a crowd around the truck...enough people that it was hard to get into the 
parking lot.  I thought, "Is DAWN HARKNESS attracting this much of a crowd in the 
middle of the day?!"  THEN I saw a bunch of John Kerry signs.  I thought, 
"Aren't they left over from 2004?!"  Suddenly I saw that John Kerry was 
addressing the crowd.

I just plain got out of there and drove over to pick up some things at 
Staples on Route 9.  I came back and the Harkness vehicle was gone.   In the bank, a 
bunch of cameras were ready and everybody looked like they were about to 
audition for American Idol.  One teller excitedly told me that John Kerry was 
about to come into the bank at any time.  I told them I'd be voting Repblican, 
and another told me "you can keep that to yourself".

I left the bank and proceeded to go over to Dunkin' Donuts for an ice coffee. 
 I realized Kerry was in there having some sort of Town Meeting or something, 
so I gave up  and drove to Dunkin' Donuts on Franklin Street.  THERE, I ran 
into the new directors of the Framingham Salvation Army (whom I recognized from
a recent newspaper article) which was more exciting and meaningful to me.
Incidentally, one of the infamous Rizoli brothers of Framingham was across the street from 
Concord St. Dunkin' Donuts holding a protest sign.

All this, just from trying to do a simple errand at the Framingham Cooperative Bank!