Shows a great contrast.  Webb is welcomed warmly, and Allen is booed and shouted at.  Nobody appeared to be that excited to see Senator Allen.

Roadette wrote:
I picked up a little footage of George Allen's entrance

Had to watch the video *twice* to spot Allen. When you showed the shadowy entrance, I kept expecting Allen to "enter", riding on is horse, with Dickwad dressed in a medieval page costume, blowing a trumpet to announce the royal progress. How very disappointing :)

Re Webb: *What a difference* a month or two can make! When I saw him for the first time -- in BV, about a week after the Labor Day -- he never cracked a smile. Of course, he had every reason to be serious -- running for Senate *on issues* is a serious business, on top of which he'd just sent off his only son to the hell known as Iraq -- but, even so... He seemed to be so self-controlled and so "tight" (rigid), one was afraid he might break.

Two weeks later, at a rally/fundraiser in Lexington, he seemed to be a little "more comfortable in his skin" (I'll teach y'all a lot of Polish sayings, by'n'by ), but still no smile. When I gathered all my nerve and asked him (knowing full-well it was none of my beeswax, but... I love babies ...) when the baby was due, there was a perceptible relaxation around his eyes and he told me -- December -- but still no full-blown smile.

Yet.. look at him in the video... Next thing you know, he'll be *laughing* :)

It may be an odd observation... It seems not just that he's evolving and acquiring more poise (though he is). He seems to be much more comfortable around ordinary people, and less so around the "elites" or on the podium -- in direct contrast to Allen (watch the body language of Webb at the game and Allen's at the "macaca incident"). I think it bodes very well for Virginia; in Webb, we'll have a representative who not only is an intellectual, but who can feel at home with the majority, instead of pretending at election time.

I saw him at a Labor Day rally and I thought he seemed really glum, that was the weekend before his son was to to be shipped off to Iraq.  So it was understandable for him to be serious.  Campaigning is so tough and discouraging sometimes, I'm glad he's finally hitting his stride.

I'd rather have someone who finds campaigning a chore, than finds governing a chore.  The Georges seem to do well with campaigning but when it comes to brass tacks they can do nothing.