SO I SAW OBAMA YESTERDAY...
AND HE'S A PRETTY COOL GUY. EH RUNS THE FREE WORLD AND DOESNT AFRAID OF ANYTHING.
Whatever your politics may be, seeing the current president in person is still pretty cool. He came to my school (University of Washington) for a rally in support of Senator Patty Murray's bid for re-election. The venue only had room for 15,000 people, out of the 18,000 who RSVP'd the event, and the many more who probably showed up on the spot.
I had to go to at least one class that day, so even though the door opened at 9 am, I didn't get down there until around 10:30. I met up with Amy and the line was so long, it looped around two buildings and a bunch of tennis courts. Thankfully the line was moving very quickly! Unfortunately, that was because the actual arena was full, and we were stuffed into the overflow area in Husky Stadium where we could watch the whole thing on the jumbotron. Lamesauce.
HOWEVER.
We were about to watch the speech by Christine Gregoire when all of a sudden the sound cut off and then...!
OBAMA.
HE APPEARED.
I couldn't have been more than 7-10 rows away from him. Much better than I would have gotten had we gone into the main arena. And we got to see him before any in the area did. <3
AND OF COURSE I GOT SOME VIDEOS AND STUFF.
Part of Patty Murray's speech. My camera didn't want to record the whole thing.
All of Obama's speech given outside. The one he gave in the main venue was longer, but I liked ours. It was special. <3
And the least-blurry of the pictures I took. I took 88 in all, but most of them were of the Jumbotron screen and look crappy. These ones are pretty okay!
The last one is just me being silly because LOL YOU CAN SEE OBAMA'S FACE IN THE PUDDLE WHAT.
All in all this was super awesome and totally worth skipping class to go see. <3 And I am going to close on one final note:
IF YOU ARE 18 YEARS OLD AND LEGALLY ABLE TO DO SO IN THIS COUNTRY, PLEASE GO VOTE IN THE ELECTIONS! It's never too late to register! Get out there and make your voice heard! Because every voter makes a difference!~ <3
Whatever your politics may be, seeing the current president in person is still pretty cool. He came to my school (University of Washington) for a rally in support of Senator Patty Murray's bid for re-election. The venue only had room for 15,000 people, out of the 18,000 who RSVP'd the event, and the many more who probably showed up on the spot.
I had to go to at least one class that day, so even though the door opened at 9 am, I didn't get down there until around 10:30. I met up with Amy and the line was so long, it looped around two buildings and a bunch of tennis courts. Thankfully the line was moving very quickly! Unfortunately, that was because the actual arena was full, and we were stuffed into the overflow area in Husky Stadium where we could watch the whole thing on the jumbotron. Lamesauce.
HOWEVER.
We were about to watch the speech by Christine Gregoire when all of a sudden the sound cut off and then...!
OBAMA.
HE APPEARED.
I couldn't have been more than 7-10 rows away from him. Much better than I would have gotten had we gone into the main arena. And we got to see him before any in the area did. <3
AND OF COURSE I GOT SOME VIDEOS AND STUFF.
Part of Patty Murray's speech. My camera didn't want to record the whole thing.
Click to viewAll of Obama's speech given outside. The one he gave in the main venue was longer, but I liked ours. It was special. <3
And the least-blurry of the pictures I took. I took 88 in all, but most of them were of the Jumbotron screen and look crappy. These ones are pretty okay!
The last one is just me being silly because LOL YOU CAN SEE OBAMA'S FACE IN THE PUDDLE WHAT.
All in all this was super awesome and totally worth skipping class to go see. <3 And I am going to close on one final note:
IF YOU ARE 18 YEARS OLD AND LEGALLY ABLE TO DO SO IN THIS COUNTRY, PLEASE GO VOTE IN THE ELECTIONS! It's never too late to register! Get out there and make your voice heard! Because every voter makes a difference!~ <3