"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I love you, Barack! Look at me! Hi!"
Posted on 03/31/2008 4:31:40 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
As Barack Obama emerged in front of an estimated crowd of 22,000 in front of Old Main on the Penn State University campus, Ashley Sims shouted the kind of welcome usually reserved for pop stars.
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I love you, Barack! Look at me! Hi!"
This from a 24-year-old graduate student who customized her cell phone's ring tone as the Obama Girl tune, "I've Got a Crush on Obama."
When speaking about Obama, she has a dreamy look in her eyes, clasps her hands to her chest, and pauses in the middle of sentences as if she just can't find the words.
"I didn't know that he was possible," she said.
At 11:45 a.m., Hershey High School alumni Cayla Rasi and Andrew Mackay arrived at the back of the line. Two hours later, they got in just in time to see the beginning of Obama's speech, but there were people behind them who never made it in.
"It's really amazing everyone got up after a Saturday night at Penn State," Rasi said.
Sean Perugini, a junior from Harleysville, Montgomery County, partied late Saturday, but Obama was worth waking up early for, he said. That's quite an honor in his book.
At a time when he doesn't feel like his government is listening to him, Obama has affirmed his faith in democracy, Perugini said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
They're not as downtrodden as they think if they can attend Penn State main campus....
These young people who are clueless are caught up in his “message” of hope etc. and have no idea what he stands for. They will be voting in droves. Scary.
lol...
Scary is the right word...
Those have to be the most hopeless group of people, so downtrodden and opressed.
They’re not as downtrodden as they think if they can attend Penn State main campus....
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That my point when I said “I hope my kids are so oppressed”.
Hey, did you hear the Daniel Smith verdict in the Bahamas this afternoon? (aren’t you my old Anna Nicole thread buddy?)
I just hate to do that to the military.
Yes I am! How are you?? I just became a grandmother on Easter Sunday!
I guess we won't be seeing any justice in the ANS case...
swallow...
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I love you, Barack! Look at me! Hi!"
I’m doing good!! I will be a grandmother in August!! Life turns, eh?
I don’t see ANY justice for either Daniel or Anna in this case. Howard Stern got away with it.
The problem is that he will not be able to maintain this level of enthusiasm if (and when, cos I personally think he is going to win) he becomes president. An awful lot of idealistic young people are going to have their hope crushed out of them...
“Broads for Mitts”? If that is for real I really WILL have to go into the letter bomb business... :)
Careful, an ex-FReeper went into a similar business and he’s now doing a stint at the graybar hotel courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. American Taxpayer.
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