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I saw the President today.
Like, live. In person. Because he came to Cornell and made a speech and it was awesome and wonderful and stuff.
Basically: Got up at ten to six, ran down to get in line. Stood there for three hours until the doors opened, then went through security and stood in a hot, sticky gym for three more hours. And then, OBAMA! For a whole half hour! And it was terribly, terribly exciting (and nobody died of heat stroke! hooray!). And someone shouted "we love you" and he said he loved us too. Basically, it was magical (because he's sooooo charismatic. I admire his speech-delivering skills. He's very smooth even when he's saying the exact same thing he says at every speech ever).
And then, I voted. Early voting FTW. (and yes, I noted the blatant manipulative-ness of Obama giving a speech an hour before early voting. I don't care, because I've been planning on voting for him for months now anyway. :P)
Wow, TNO. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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submitted by TNÖ, age 19, Deep Space
(October 17, 2012 - 8:27 pm)
(October 17, 2012 - 8:27 pm)
That's so awesome! I bet you'll never forget that experience. I live very near Charlotte, North Carolina which is where the Democratic National Convention was held in September. We didn't go, of course, since it was so terribly expensive to get a ticket and we're Republicans anyway. But my mom and my sister were in Charlotte at the time his plane landed. I watched his speech, too.
(Frankly, though, I would have gone to the DNC and waved a Romney sign. There's one in our yard currently.)
(October 18, 2012 - 1:34 pm)
Obama came to my sister's school last year. Which is a college, it's not like he came to some random high school.
@Mattie:
Republican high five!
(October 19, 2012 - 3:56 pm)
@Gollum and Mattie
Triple Republican high five!
(October 20, 2012 - 7:29 pm)
Quadruple Republican High Five! (Okay, I'm using my alternate identity, but who cares?)
(October 21, 2012 - 5:10 pm)
TOP!!!
(October 19, 2012 - 2:50 am)
Wow, that must have been really cool. I went to see him about two weeks ago. The wait was really long and it was cold, but it was definitely worth it.
(October 19, 2012 - 4:04 pm)
@CBer Republicans-
Quintuple high five!
(October 22, 2012 - 6:10 pm)
I saw the vice president today!!! (There wasn't any school today :) )
(October 26, 2012 - 3:24 pm)
@ TNO:
That's really, really cool that you got to see the president, and I don't mean to offend you... but I wouldn't have listened to his speech if he had paid me. No matter how charismatic he is. Which I do not doubt that he is.
(October 26, 2012 - 3:26 pm)
I forgot to add...
That's awesome! I would love to see anybody involved with politics that close and hear him talk. I actually saw a senator for two seconds in person once because I was taking a tour of the Capitol, and we went on a tram to the office building, and we were walking back from his visitor's office, and he popped his head out! I still get calendars sent from there, but they think I'm a guy because my handwriting was horrendous and they couldn't read my name.
Anyways, that's awesome. You're lucky!
(October 26, 2012 - 9:04 pm)
Someone in my grade at school* is an intern at a Congressperson's office. Unpaid, but still. She's lucky! Not that I think that he's doing a good job at all (the Congressman, I mean; I don't know how the intern is doing), but I'm told he's a nice person, and I'm sure she'll learn a lot.
Sadly, I don't think I could ever go to a national convention or hear a president speak. I'd be too traumatized by all the accompanying noise and fanfare. I hate sensory processing problems.
*She's in my "family," which is basically the equivalent of a House at Hogwarts, except that there are 10 of them, and they're randomly assigned, and since it's not a boarding school, we don't live together.
(November 18, 2012 - 6:33 pm)