President Obama speaks at a campaign event outside Roanoke Fire Station #1 in Roanoke, Va - pics

[Kadie]

President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event outside Roanoke Fire Station #1 in Roanoke, Va. , Friday, July 13, 2012. Obama is spending the day campaigning in Virginia.































pics from news.daylife.com

[OverseaVisitor]

1. Nice.

With such crowd logic say that he will win big.

However when it comes to US l learn not to trust logic.

[liberal N proud]

2. Is that all the bigger the crowd was?

[DCKit]

4. Me too. I think Obama was clearly photoshopped into pics from a Rmony rally.

[riverbendviewgal]

3. Great pics

Thanks for p osting them...Lots of people there ....He is loved.

[chollybocker]

5. Thanks, Kadie.

That is one big-ass flag. He's earned it.

[Historic NY]

6. Virginia...Old Dominion

[ohheckyeah]

7. Roanoke had a great

turn out for the President. Wish I could have been there but no way I could physically stand that long.

My parents who used to vote Republican called me to make sure I knew Pres. Obama was going to be on television. They've both done a complete turnaround in their politics within the last 5 years.....they are 85 years old.

My brother has been converted to liberal as well just within the last couple of years. He was pretty right wing but no longer. He now wants to get involved with an organization that works for WOMEN'S RIGHTS. Folks - that's a miracle on the level of the parting of the Red Sea.

One person at a time - that's how you change things.

[freshwest]

17. Thanks for that report, ohheckyeah! May it be repeated a million times.

[ohheckyeah]

23. :-)

That's 4 in my family I've helped to convert. I have a long way to go but all of the older generation - my dad's siblings, are saying they will NEVER vote for a Republican again. Of course, they may not have many more elections in their lifetime but that's okay....they are spreading the word.

I believe the biggest obstacle in most of Virginia to it turning blue is the churches. For the most part the churches are full of right-wing Republicans and somehow people have confused politics with religion.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Thank you for posting!!

Watched it live on CSPAN and the camera refused to pan out over that crowd.... naturally. That's how I usually know when it is packed and jammed! They'll never have that many for Rmoney.

Thank you Roanoke for representin' that part of the state of VA!!

[skydive forever]

9. i saw this all over the mainstream media yesterday

Oh yeah, there is something thats not gonna happen. How doI do that sarcasm thingy?

[liberal N proud]

10. Welcome to DU...

Click on the smilies button and select it from there.

[kitt6]

11. I'm waiting to see

Romney's crowds!

[Faygo Kid]

12. It's clear he has the People. But Rmoney has Kochs, Rove, Diebold & Fox News

Theft is in the air, as it was in 2000 in Florida and 2004 in Ohio. This time it will be more powerfully financed than ever. If they "win," they will disenfranchise voters to a degree that they will never have to worry again.

[Tess49]

13. It's a shame he went to all the trouble to show up,

and no one stopped by to even say hello.

[xxqqqzme]

14. Was it a long campaign day?

He looks tired in the last 4 pictures.

I only campaigned locally. I cannot imagine a campaign on the national level.

[Kadie]

15. He had a pretty busy day. Here are links to more pics.

President Obama at Phoebus High School in Hampton, Virginia - pics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101740765

President Obama at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, VA - pics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101740698

President Barack Obama meets members at the VFW Hall 3219 in Hampton, Virginia - pics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101740731

[freshwest]

16. Wow, more great pix!

[findrskeep]

18. Thank you so much for posting these pics.

My hometown is Roanoke Virginia, but I'm a New Englander now. Last night before bed I made the mistake of logging onto facebook and I saw where some people I grew up with and went to school with were posting all kinds of crap about why in the world would anyone go see Obama, and how they wouldn't vote for him if they were paid to...just stupid, negative, blind and small minded comments. And knowing these people, some of them well, although I no longer associate with them, I knew the reason why they would never consider voting for Obama. It made me sick. So thank you again for posting all these wonderful pictures and restoring some of the faith I had lost over the years in my hometown and my home state!

[tclambert]

19. Romney would be happy with a crowd of 7: Charles and David Koch, Sheldon Adelson, Harold Simmons,

Irving Moskowitz, Robert Mercer, and Steven Lund.

[WinstonSmith4740]

20. Looking at these crowds...

Explain to me again how the polls are a "virtual dead-heat"

[beac]

21. K&R for a BLUE Virginia!!

[ohheckyeah]

22. We're trying!

I'm going to volunteer to work at the local Democratic Headquarters and then again at the polls. I might sign up to do a 4 hour stint at the polls and then a 4 hour stint driving people to the polls.

The importance of Obama taking the state of Virginia cannot be stressed enough.

[beac]

24. Me too!

(fellow Virginian here!)

I'm betting our POS guv will be the Veep pick. Gawd knows, he's used his whole governorship as one long audition. "Bob's for Jobs" for himself ans screw the rest of us.

[ohheckyeah]

25. I don't know -

he pissed off a lot of people with the transvaginal ultrasound shit and he doesn't have any more personality than Mitt.

[beac]

28. I would be surprised if any GOP hopeful with an ounce of personality or sense would get within 100

miles of the Romney campaign now. Which is why I think our doofus guv might still be gunning for the job.

[ohheckyeah]

29. Oh, I have no doubt the

jerk wants it, but I don't see that he would bring anything to the table for Romney.

Have you ever noticed how the governor looks like every extra that played an SS officer in a war film?

[bpj62]

26. Palin

As a fellow Virginian I share the same concern. However McDonnell is the male version of Palin and the press won't put up with the bs this time. Also Biden would eat McDonnell alive in thr debate. Virginia politics do not play well outside the state.

[beac]

27. So hoping you are right.

Our state has been embarassed enough lately.

[ohheckyeah]

30. Isn't that the truth....

McDonnell, Cantor and Cuckoonelli.



Ken Cuccinelli is one scary dude.....his elevator doesn't reach the attic.