Posted on 08/31/2008 11:47:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
Carson City, NV - Pat Cattell, 71, is John McCain's contemporary and a lifelong Republican who switched to support Barack Obama.
She said as she watched him accept the Democratic nomination for president that sees him as the future and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain as the past. She has her feet on the ground but her eyes stay fixed on the prize of an Obama victory in November.
She was among nearly 30 Democrats at a house party Thursday evening here to hear and watch Obama's speech. She isn't anti-McCain. "A fine decent man," she said of the senator from Arizona, "but past his prime."
She said she was a lifelong Republican probably because her parents thought ill of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She didn't trash President George W. Bush, saying only that Obama, the senator from Illinois, captured her imagination. She said she lined up to see Obama here last January and has followed his bid for the presidency ever since.
As she watched the televised speech from Denver at the home of Chuck and Melinda Crisman in Carson City, she smiled and raised her hand when Obama included her kind with an overture in his speech, as he put it, to "the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot."
Cattell watched Obama sitting on a couch with Charlotte LaCombe and in the same room with Mike Runow and his spouse, Sue Mitchell Runow, all of whom seemed enthralled with the speech. Runow said his opinion was that Obama wrote his own speech.
LaCombe said she and a woman from San Francisco who has just moved to Reno to support Obama, in part because Washoe County is a swing county in a swing state, will soon go to the Burning Man event in rural Nevada to register folks to vote for Obama.
Even before the speech, Cattell was glued to the television watching warmup videos like the one in which Michelle Obama described how the Democratic nominee wooed her years ago. Saying Obama spoke to troubled people about what is and what could be, Michelle Obama told the audience: "That was it; I was in love with him."
Cattell turned to LaCombe and immediately said: "I can see how she would be." Yet the former Republican wasn't starry eyed. Just moments earlier she acknowledged Obama's ambitious plans won't all come to fruition in Washington, D.C., where change comes slowly. But she said Obama will make the start for a better future.
A life long Republican?
I doubt it.
Proof that age does not necessarily bring wisdom.
Pat Cattel sounds one sandwich short of a lunch.
“...saying only that Obama, the senator from Illinois, captured her imagination.”
Oh, well if that’s all that is required for president then shouldnt Reading Rainbow be president?
Republicans are, shall we say, somewhat scarce at Burning Man.
She’s 71? According to the Dems, it’s unlikely she’ll live long enough to cast a vote.
Perhaps a lifelong Rino...
susie
Go easy on her! Clearly she is going senile and alzheimer’s changes people in many ways.
Goodness, “A” Republican.
Trying to pump up the troops is getting desperate.
I think it’s called senility.
So she did not think for herself??? A perfect Democrat.
SUCKER!
****Cattell watched Obama sitting on a couch with Charlotte LaCombe and in the same room with Mike Runow and his spouse, Sue Mitchell Runow, all of whom seemed enthralled with the speech. Runow said his opinion was that Obama wrote his own speech.****
Who wrote this crepe?
As I understand it: Obama was sitting on a couch with Charlotte, both of whom were being watched by Cattell. Also in the room were Mike and Sue Runow. Everyone loved the speech that Obama wrote and delivered right there in the room, from the couch.
Yes, Hitler, Stalin, Castro were all charismatic speakers that rallied people.
Rallied people to commit mass slaughter of people they didn’t like and institute oppressive regimes in the name of “the people.”
Doesn’t anyone study history anymore?
Senator Joe McCarthy was right and we are leaving with aftermath of not getting rid of the Communists in our midst. Now they might will the Presidential election and dominate Congress.
She and “a woman” from San Francisco....well folks what more need be said. She is now with the party of her kind.
“will soon go to the *Burning Man event* in rural Nevada to register folks to vote for Obama.”
And there went any credibility she may have had.
But since when has dying stopped people from voting Democrat?
Senility.
As are chemically undamaged brain cells.
[oh, wait...that’s redundant, isn’t it?]
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