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Obama speaks to cheering crowd: 'How's it goin', Bend?'
ktvz.com ^ | 05/10/08 | Barney Lerten

Posted on 05/10/2008 5:19:21 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke to a packed, cheering crowd of 2,300 at Bend's Summit High School Saturday, addressing a variety of issues and imploring his audience to help him "turn the page" and write a new chapter in U.S. history.

"How's it goin', Bend?" Obama said as he took the stage in an open-collar white shirt and rolled-up sleeves, pacing slowly back and forth as he touched on all the issues and took several questions from the audience over an hour-long span.

"Thank you everybody! Thank you so much!" he said. "What a wonderful crowd. Please, have a seat."

"I am so thrilled to be east of the mountains in Central Oregon," Obama said. "You guys have some pretty real estate out here. I want to stick around. Who's gonna teach me fishin'?"


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bend; blueturban; obama
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To: mgist

Bend is the name of the city where he was speaking.


21 posted on 05/10/2008 6:01:25 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: mgist

“How’s it goin’? Bend over.”


22 posted on 05/10/2008 6:06:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: johniegrad

Obama was raised on an island and never went fishing?


23 posted on 05/10/2008 6:27:15 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Must have lived in the middle.


24 posted on 05/10/2008 6:29:44 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: mgist; All

This group of kids (18-25) has got to be the stupidest group in the history of the country. Most of this group has played more video games than has read books. They are almost to a person ignorant of the history of the 20th Century (or any other century). Compared to them baby boomer’s are genius. God help us.


25 posted on 05/10/2008 6:33:37 PM PDT by truthguy (~)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Bend is in Deschutes County which used to be a solid republican county until Bend experienced rapid growth fueled by immigrating liberals tired of urban growth...end result is that they have transformed a beautiful county of logging and ranching into a tourist trap and golf course mecca...even the state sen. has gone Rat. Perfect spot for Obama to meet the brainless masses.
26 posted on 05/10/2008 6:34:30 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

He forgot to end the phrase with “over.”


27 posted on 05/10/2008 6:35:00 PM PDT by FUMETTI (Barack Obama's supporters are mindless sheep)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Did anyone faint?


28 posted on 05/10/2008 6:41:33 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: johniegrad

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007Feb06/0,4675,ObamaHawaiianRoots,00.html

Obama Had Multiethnic Existence in Hawaii
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

He also spent time with his grandfather, sometimes playing checkers with the locals at Alii Park, spear fishing in Kailua Bay or listening to Stevie Wonder and Billie Holiday records.


29 posted on 05/10/2008 6:47:16 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: South40

No, but a swarm of folks did Bend. Over.


30 posted on 05/10/2008 6:51:08 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil......" Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google)
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To: at bay

(As in “what the f-—! —over”)


31 posted on 05/10/2008 6:54:10 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil......" Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google)
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To: truthguy

I’m 25 and I’m appalled at the stupidity of other people my age. I blame the socialist government schools.


32 posted on 05/10/2008 7:12:17 PM PDT by darkangel82 (If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
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To: crazyhorse691

And it is amazing how quickly this transformation took place. I think it has happened in the last 7-8 years.


33 posted on 05/10/2008 8:28:25 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: jimtorr

He was in the State of Confusion last I knew...


34 posted on 05/10/2008 9:08:41 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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