Did his jeans "crackle" with power, too?
Posted on 09/30/2008 4:22:33 AM PDT by sevinufnine
ABC’s Sunlen Miller, Matt Jaffe, and John Berman Report: The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.
Obama and his running mate Delaware Sen. Joe Biden took the stage at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., before a crowd of 10,000 to 20,000 people who had been waiting hours in the mud to see them. The weather in northern Virginia has been awful the last couple of days. And not long after Joe Biden’s introduction, just minutes after Obama started speaking, the rain started falling again.
"I know some of you got a little damp," Obama told the audience gathered in the school quad. "I’d like to cover everybody’s dry cleaning bill here tonight, but I can’t because I got to use it on the campaign, so consider it one more modest contribution to our efforts to change the country."
As the rain began to pour harder, Obama noticed his running mate’s stool close to the edge of the slippery stage.
"I'm gonna ask Joe to move that stool up because I don't want to have to choose another vice-president," Obama joked. "I don't want him slipping over, toppling over there."
Obama spoke for just under 30 minutes, and used the unruly weather as a metaphor nearing the end of his speech.
"Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it's dark. And you think the rains will never pass," Obama preached, "The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come."
Astute students of history have noted, weather is not something politicians should take lightly. The presidency of William Henry Harrison, indeed Harrison's life lasted a mere month after after he caught a cold at his inauguration, which was held outside on a chilly Washington morning.
So, Obama would “take care of the crowd’s drycleaning” if he didn’t need the money for the campaign? How dirty does he think his supporters get?!
Students in tee-shirts and jeans don’t need drycleaning money, Barry. If he were McCain, the msm would be snarling that he is so out-of-touch.
And to think that these wet-behind-the-ears students with their skulls full of liberal mush are being signed up by the hundreds of thousands to vote for this Socialist makes me sick.
I seriously doubt those people out there were wearing clothes that need to be dry cleaned. Who is out of touch?
Note to self - never mention money and laundry in the same political speech.
Even the heavens don’t like them.
“I’m gonna ask Joe to move that stool..”
Come on, boss, I know the latest was don’t do anything without your say-so, but I’ll have an accident if I have to wait much longer!
The Messiah is back!
Geez...I haven't been to a dry cleaners in 20 years.
The opening paragraph of this article sounds like something in a dimestore romance novel.
Here's betting the crowd was 6,000 and were given free beer or somesuch to show up.
Cheers!
10,000 to 20,000 in a union town on a Monday.
Whoopee.
Actually, it was a more appropriate free refreshment--Coke ZERO.
Did his jeans "crackle" with power, too?
Heh.
God Votes.
Obama would “take care of the crowd’s drycleaning”
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Oh yes, Obama, we understand you fully intend to take us all to the cleaners. lol
Looks like you blew your chance to get him out of the debate Thursday :-)
Sometimes the rain would stop as President Reagan started speaking. The opposite seems true for 0bama.
He was all wet huh? The campaign can’t afford an umbrella?? Surely there are plenty of flunkies who would be willing to stand there and hold it over him.
I thought dry cleaning was not environmentally correct?
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