As far as Sen. Obama’s talk went, it was about what you’d expect, if you’ve been keeping up with the election so far. It focused heavily on the economy and bread-and-butter issues such as health insurance and education, gave the GOP a lot of guff for their usual idiocies and fear-mongering antics, and was also considerably more earthy and populist than much of his primary rhetoric. (But that’s the general for you, and particularly when you’re facing a candidate amazingly unable to count up his number of McMansions.) In any case, at the end of the proceedings, I was close enough to shake the Senator’s hand on the rope line, and got to tell him “I’m looking forward to January.” And, hey, aren’t we all?
So, however my flitting around the convention hall turns out next week, I’m happy to say I got in a choice Obama sighting before even getting on the plane to Denver. (And now I feel much less bad about missing out on tix for the nomination speech next Thursday.)
Nice! McCain brings new meaning to the term “McMansions,” doesn’t he?
Exxon-McMansion ’08!
I just hope neither of you are losing your religion.
Awesome! Glad you got a chance to meet him.
Oh man, I knew it. They cut to a clip of this speech on Countdown last night, and I thought, Hey, that guy in the blue shirt looks familiar. I was this close to capping a still, but wasn’t quite sure.
Maybe you can use that picture in the future (ala JFK and Bill Clinton).
Nice picture. At some point – probably four years from now – everyone attending a political speech will be savvy enough to know that if you’re looking at the speaker’s back, you’re on TV and we’ll have people in the backgrounds talking on their cell phones and waving like they do behind home plate before a pitch.
Assuming four years from now you’re allowed to bring a cell phone to a political speech.