Posted on 02/21/2008 6:05:29 PM PST by squidly
Life of the party: Obama's supporters rock Reunion Arena
12:00 AM CST on Thursday, February 21, 2008
Sha-zam! Barack Obama puts on a really great shindig – this crowd was juiced!
It wasn't just the hollering section of sign wavers clustered down front for the cameras, but up in the rafters where I was, in the lumpy old Reunion Arena folding seats.
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They wanted to be in the same room with the man and to echo his themes – hope, change, unity, sticking it to the fat cats – generalities that his opponents have criticized as lacking "substance." The people in this crowd might with good reason reasonably ask: Well, what has substance done for me so far?
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"It's electric! Can't you feel it?" said one man, who told me he was headed for work at the IRS after the rally. I could feel it, because it's a fundamental element of crowd psychology that the expectation of "electricity" creates it.
They loved it – Ron Kirk delivering a punch line about "a skinny kid with big ears whose name rhymes with 'Yo mama' " and Emmitt Smith, as excited and electrified as anybody else there.
The main event, of course, was the speech, which I have heard before. I just sat back and felt the key phrases wash over the crowd: "new," "change," "Kennedy," "Scooter Libby justice," "wiretaps," "Katrina."
The lady sitting next to me dipped into a bucket of popcorn and murmured the phrases back: " 'If you believe.' 'The time is now.' That's right," she agreed.
She was a little disappointed, in fact, when the rally ended: "Why didn't he do, 'Yes we can'?" she asked a friend, as if a concert had ended, the biggest hit not performed.
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Where is the barf alert?
I heard he wants change.
I was there. I think I was the only person there who wasn’t impressed.
I hope you were able to corrupt some earnest Democrats with clear thinking while you were there.
The shouts of “BLOW YOUR NOSE FOR US OBAMA!” were deafening!
so silly.
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