Tequila Mas Fina: Band of Brothers on the Mall

[political]
As I was riding the Metro back to West Falls Church, I was kicking myself for not being more prepared. I don't have the tools to blog from the mall, but I realized I could have been on the phone with someone who could relay questions from this site to me to ask the candidates and post their responses as a back-handed live-blog. That, together with the fact the my camera took more than 100 blank shots (no, I don't have a lens cover to remove ;-)), told me I was ill prepared for today's event. Learning curve, argh... That said, I did manage to get most of the audio on my mp3 player (read: not a directional mic) - and even that was somewhat poor as I was in the back with the 'Real Media.' Sadly, when I spoke with the gentleman who was handing out press kits and told him I was putting this up on dailykos, he didn't seem to recognize the name.

Why was I there? I was just a Seabee Desert Storm vet there to hear what the candidates had to offer. So, in their own words, here's what I manage to salvage of this morning's event:

It started with the standard thank yous and introductions from the event organizers. [My apologies to them for not having my player up and ready to go to catch their names.] The first speaker was Max Cleland, followed by each of the candidates. To hear what each said, right click on their names and open the mp3 files in the player of your choice. Because the idea is to present each speech, the audio was compressed to save bandwidth and download time. Again, sorry I wasn't prepared to address individual candidates with specific questions.