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October 09, 2008

Thomas Dworzak on the surprising "Un-liberal" crowd.


Springsteen concert for Obama, Philadelphia, Oct. 4 -- I guess the most surprising thing about this was how "un-liberal" the crowd seemed.
Was not the blog-standard cool, hip, urban/alternative, urbane crowd I had seen at other Obama events.

Had spent the night before at Penn State, where I felt I could tell from the way students dressed, behaved, who was more Rep., who more Dem.
At the Philly event, all stereotypes were thrown over.

The constant surprise for me is the almost messianic appeal Obama seems to have. I saw Bruce Springsteen perform for Kerry in Florida in 2004. At the time it felt like a last, slightly disconnected attempt to be cool. Now, Obama seems more like the überrockstar himself. Doesn't really need aging rockers to drum up support for him.
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Jorge; Obama es mas como Lula que Chavez. Una persona que entienden la problematica social , por vivirla mas que por idealizarla. Con toda la fuerza te digo que confio que Obama solo traera confianza y estabilidad para un mundo caotico. Y sobre todo, no le dara tanta fuerza a los demagogos latinoamericanos, que utilizan el mensaje imperialista de los neo-cons norte americanos como arma. Ya que en eso tienen razon. Fuerza y fe.
Comment posted by cubes (not verified) on October 21st, 2008
Espero que Obama no termine siendo un Presidente como Hugo Chavez, que dijo cosas muy buenas y termino convertido en un abusador y conviertiendo Venezuela más pobre.
Comment posted by jorge vall (not verified) on October 17th, 2008
this is very important showing all the leftovers after the explosion of our values what is left.
Comment posted by michelle vignes (not verified) on October 15th, 2008