There was a lot of yelling and screaming going on as well about the mix of political stripes and the wide spectrum of support at today's rally – indeed, the thousand or so odd folks at Independence Mall truly represented a most diverse gathering of upper-middle-class white people from all walks of life. On the left, a smattering of disgruntled Liberals, desperate Greens and misdirected IMF/WorldBank protesters; on the right, a gaggle or two of pro-lifers, Birchers, NWO conspiracy loons and skinheads and, in the middle, the hugest, widest, pastiest swath of pissed-off yellow-ribbon-stickered SUV drivers who ever paid $3.50 a gallon to drive all the way to Philadelphia.

I counted – tops – three black people at this event. THREE. This included the now-obligatory woman dressed as the Statue Of Liberty – perhaps four, if you include our pal Daryl, who covered this shindig for One People's Project…and, at the absolute most, six, if you count the two plainclothes cops wearing tacky orange armbands reading PHILADELPHIA POLICE.

As a rather creepy coda to the whole nutty afternoon, our pal Daryl Lamont Jenkins from One People's Project had a rather tense get-together with a gaggle of old nemeses representing part of Paul's grassroots base, the Keystone State Skinheads — including a couple of guys who attacked and beat Daryl at a Skinhead rally in Pennsylvania earlier this year — exchanging a few quiet insults and terse pleasantries and finishing off with one Skin's quote of the day in a parting shot, "Y'know, Daryl, you're scum, and we'll see you another day…"