"G. W. is my homeboi"

At 4:30 p.m., the leading edge of the motorcade, travelling at about 35 mph, passed the hundreds-strong crowd at Miami and Euclid avenues in Madeira -- but by that time there seemed to be as many supporters as protesters.

The difference: Many of the supporters seemed to have just happened upon the roadblock, while the protesters had been camped out for hours.

Tony Gallenstein, a 17-year-old senior at Madeira High School, said he would have been there earlier -- except that he had an appointment with a Navy recruiter.

Fellow student Alex Shaw, 17, the junior class presiden, held an impromptu cardboard sign that said, "G.W. is my homeboi."

"I support a lot of the things he's doing," he said, wearing a short-sleeved shirt in . "My brother is in Iraq, so I think it's important to support the troops and support the president."

Jeff Sinnard, a Democratic candidate for Congress in the second district, held this sign: "Dear Mr. President: I do not support your warrantless spying on Americans." He then put his cell phone number on the sign and invited the president to eavesdrop.

He said he doubted the president would see his sign, but showed up to show the world that "there's a voice here that's different from what you typically hear in this area."