Obama Draws Big Toledo Crowd; 5,000 Turned Away

[WillyT]

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TOLEDO — The biggest crowd in two days — more than 10,000 — greeted Barack Obama here on Sunday, Feb. 24 at the University of Toledo's Savage Hall even as Obama found himself confronting a new potential presidential foe — consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

Ben LaBolt, Obama spokesman, said that this was the biggest crowd of any Ohio Obama campaign event. The fire marshal turned away 5,000 people, LaBolt said.

Earlier in the day, his bus trip took him to the National Gypsum plant in Lorain, west of Cleveland, where he kept up his spat over NAFTA with Hillary Clinton, his opponent in the March 4 Democratic primary.

Obama was scheduled to campaign at Wright State University in Fairborn today, Feb. 25.

At the Toledo rally, Alicia Harris, 17, from suburban Ottawa Hills, jumped up and down as Obama began to speak.

"I feel that he's the best person who can unite this country in a way we've never been before," said Harris, who turns 18 on March 25, making her eligible to vote.

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Link: http://www.western-star.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/24/ddn022508obama.html

:shrug:

[scheming daemons]

1. B,S,,,,, OzarkDem will be here shortly to tell you it was only about 1000.......

...and that the picture was photoshopped.

[Cha]

20. That's funny ..I see

that name mentioned so much in relation to these Ohio threads.

[Yael]

22. You apparently missed this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4740478

(What many of these references are to)

[Cha]

31. "you are ignoring the poster to this

thread"..I musta lost that one a long time ago.

[Yael]

32. You missed a party then

:rofl:

[Cha]

33. I know..but I still

see threads with other posters replying and I get the general gist of the :party:

[Yael]

2. That is all well and fine

but what was the traffic situation like?

[WillyT]

3. LOL !!! - Youse Guys Are Cracking Me Up !!!

:rofl:

[Yael]

4. Dammit man -- I need stories of gridlock, not tumbleweeds and spider webs!

[tabatha]

5. Si Se Puede Cambiar

The singer/songwriter of this song has a blog, which is kind of fun (if you are an Obama suppoter)

http://www.andresuseche.blogspot.com/

[Yael]

11. That video was really cool!

[Cha]

26. The Spanish language has never

sounded more beautifully sung than by Andres Useche..that is one of the most inspiring videos in a bevy of inspiring videos I have had the pleasure to see and hear..thank you so much, tabatha!

I'm going to send this around to some good friends who will really love it.

Si Se Puede Cambiar!

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. thank you for sharing that....

I got chills. The torch is indeed being passed to a new generation. That production was beautiful,
and I'll be sharing it with friends and family.

Thanks again for sharing. :hi:

[adoraz]

25. HAHA

made me laugh out loud

[Forkboy]

6. Ozark Dem just sent me this pic of the event. I think you're lying.

[WillyT]

8. We're Very Small...You Have To Sprinkle Kool-Aid On Us And We Grow...

Sorta like Chia Pets!



:evilgrin:

[Yael]

12. Those were the upper seats, right?

Damn fish-eye media lenses...

[rontun]

35. Clearly Ozark Dem is on hallucinogens

That's a view of John McCain's rally in Atlanta.

[workinforalivin]

7. Both of them make me want to move to Europe

both are playing to their bases ... the same bases that gave us Bush in 2000 and Bush in 2004.

The old Judea-Christian theme, with a bit of hallelujah thrown in by Obama and a bit of fear/lack of experience thrown in by Hillary.

In the end, you'll get the same old bunch of folks who have failed to impeach the most corrupt Presidential Admin in history and the same old bunch who have yet to hold even ONE, SINGLE, PERSON, accountable for the crimes perpetuated against our nation, its Constitution, or the world (illegal spying on Americans, outing a CIA officer, lying to us about Iraq, Iran, etc.)

[Cha]

27. Bye

[NJSecularist]

9. Can we get a traffic report from OzarkDem?

[Occam Bandage]

10. Big deal. I expected him to turn away 15-17000. He has to be disappointed.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. Obama's in the house, everybody raise your arms up in the air and shout, AMEN......

He does Benni Hinn PROUD


Benni Hinn surrogates will be passing the plates shortly!




.

[Yael]

14. And the skies opened and the celestial choir started singing

If only Mark Penn had thought of it first. Damn.

[scheming daemons]

17. Hillary's in the house, plenty of good seats still available!

...

[knowledgeispwr]

19. Literally in the house.

That's about how big the venue is. And there are still good seats!

[knowledgeispwr]

23. Can I Xerox that?

I want to use it as a part of a moving-picture I'm gonna produce and put on the youtube on the internets.

[Ino]

15. Oh noooo! He's gonna make Hillary mad!!!

She said enough with the speeches & big rallies! She said don't mail out these flyers again! Didn't he get the memo?!

[Yael]

16. If she grounds him -- how will he campaign?

:scared:

[Cha]

29. Yeah, like..

"You're Grounded young man!"

[knowledgeispwr]

18. Turned away only 5000? He should have had to turn away 50,000

Since the weather was nice today he should have had over 100,000. Clearly he is done. His campaign is on a downward spiral and every one can see through his false hope; we must simply accept things the way they are. Bah, humbug.

Still, I don't believe 10,000 were there. I will await patiently for the traffic report and an accurate appraisal from that poster of the Ozarks.

[Yael]

21. Thanks for the report, Baghdad Bob!!

[scheming daemons]

24. Alternate headline: "Obama rally ONLY turns away 5,000... is Obamania over?" --- OzarkDem

....

[Colobo]

28. Ozark is HILLarious.

[boppers]

30. CAMPAIGN IN SHAMBLES, DIDN'T PLAN WELL

Had to turn away 5,000 supporters, a sure sign that he cannot manage his momentum!

[Window]

36. Oh shit. Obama's gonna really make Hillary angry now.

She told him in no uncertain terms to stop with the speeches and BIG rallies.

Think she'll give him a timeout.