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 ...
If, for whatever purpose, I had a crowd gathered to hear me, and someone hollered that to me, I'd instinctively scan his torso to see if anything harmful was strapped to it.
“Hey J.C. J.C.
won’t you smile at me?”
There has been a consideration for the lesser intelligent as voting for hillary. I would call this group the less than informed and totally susceptible to pandering group....
So half of the Penn State students would rather sleep in.
It is going to be so much fun to watch these people after the election and he loses, there will be a rush on psychiatrist appointments and anti-depression prescriptions.
Probably one of Comrade O'Connor's Political Science groupies?
Is he still there?
which I will never understand...
I wouldn't underestimate the frenzy that is going on out there among dems for Obama. Obama's coming to my area today, and people are going crazy...
He’s a “Barack Star”
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Hell. I got ya beat.
The entire rabid herd is coming here to Denver later this year.
“That a grad student should act in such an adolescent manner is disturbing.”
That is the result of a public school education, where maturity is sacrificed for feelings.
Id like a 2 pound porterhouse for 98 cents, please.
“24 is the new 16, apparently.”
Isn’t that the truth. I just turned 40. By 24, my wife and I had married and bought a house.
Don't blame the younger generation for that -- a house is now far beyond the reach of all but the richest 24-year-olds, whether they're responsible voters or not.
“Don’t blame the younger generation for that — a house is now far beyond the reach of all but the richest 24-year-olds, whether they’re responsible voters or not.”
You missed my point. The house purchase was just an example of where we placed our priorities.
Sorry to hear that's your neck of the woods...:)
Not in PA! There are towns here where you could buy a nice house with a handful of unemployment checks.
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