Breaking!!!Obama Holds Now A Town Hall Meeting In Williamsport, PA

[Hope And Change]

Obama town hall in Williamsport, PA
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama holds a town hall meeting in Williamsport, PA

http://edition.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream2

[jenmito]

1. K&R. This is his second of three stops today!

:hi:

[crankychatter]

2. this is great stuff... thank you for the alerts

it's why I keep this site open

k/r

[Yael]

3. K&R -- thanks for the heads up!

[jenmito]

8. Did you see your guy(s) on The Colbert Report last night?

And did you see how immediately after Hillary did HER segment, Colbert did a piece on the debate and Stephanopoulos?! :D

[Yael]

13. I was homesick for John -- he did a great job!

I fully support Senator Obama, but there is a huge part of me that wished John were still in this thing.

[jenmito]

15. Well, I'm glad you now support Obama. Didn't Edwards do great?

As did Obama...

[Yael]

19. Yeah -- I have watched it 4 times so far on the you tubes.

Its a keeper!!

[Coexist]

4. thank you!

[Yael]

5. Great picture!

[malik flavors]

6. Radical. No sports coat, either. Thanks!

[Yael]

7. But a really, really shiny shirt.

:rofl:

[Phoonzang]

9. Let's hope he doesn't scratch his face... n/t

[tishaLA]

10. I lived near Williamsport for a few years

....in Lewisburg. You can't get much more "red state" than that area. I'll be interested in seeing what the questions are like and how responsive the crowd is.

[jenmito]

11. He was asked how he'll CONTINUE being president to 2012 (he meant 2016) and Obama

said, "I don't wanna count my chickens before I'm hatched-before they're hatched, I'm hatched..." (laughter). :D

[ericgtr]

12. A post that isn't about the finger or a flag pin?? K&R Baby!

Woot! Thanks for some positive news.

:kick:

[jenmito]

14. "My husband and I are Christians, gun owners, hunters, and we're not bitter about your comments, but

we ARE bitter about how your OPPONENT is portraying your comments!"

[scheming daemons]

16. Cool....

[jenmito]

17. I think a LOT of people feel that way!

:hi:

[Yael]

20. She said "your opponents" (plural). Cracked me up.

:D

[Yael]

18. He just said that restoring rail service will be a priority here

:woohoo:

[IsItJustMe]

21. Thank you very much for the Link. Enjoyed it.

[KnaveRupe]

22. He had one this morning in Erie, PA.

Tickets were made available for the event at 5pm Wednesday, and all 1800+ were just about gone by 9pm.

By 8:30am yesterday, they were announcing on the news that all the available tickets were gone, but that people could still be on the waiting list.

This morning, Barack was scheduled to speak at 10:30am, and the doors to the venue were to open at 8:30. We arrived at 8:15, and there were already several hundred people queued up outside waiting to get in.


He spoke for about 20 minutes, then took questions from the crowd for the rest of the time. The energy in the room was something. Western PA is supposed to be Clinton country, but let me tell you - the enthusiasm of that crowd made me believe that Obama is going to do well in PA.

I'll be working GOTV all weekend and volunteering at HQ on election day, so I'll report more about how our little corner of PA is doing as the weekend progresses. But I'm really starting to think that Yes. We. Can.