Larry Eichel reports...
It's Day Three of the Obama bus tour, and the candidate has just finished the big event of the day, a mass rally at Penn State on the lawn in front of Old Main. University police estimated the crowd at 22,000. We think that might be a little high. But there were a lot of people.
Obama gave his standard speech, with a few adjustments. And he certainly showed that he understands how Penn State works. Right at the start, he mentioned that he'd met with assistant football coach, Jay Paterno, son of Joe and an Obama supporter. He gave out a shout out to Sue Paterno, wife of Joe, who was in the crowd. And he mentioned that he'd just talked (by cellphone, it turns out) with Joe Pa himself. We're told the conversation was about football and intercollegiate athletics generally. The 81-year-old head football coach is a Republican.
Earlier in the day, Obama played a game of basketball and visited a dairy farm run by Penn State. He fed some milk to a calf and said his young daughters would think that was cool. He said he talks to them everyday, they ask what he did, and he says he gave a speech. "Boring" is the usual reply. Probably not when he next talks to them.
Now, the caravan of buses is heading south on Route 322, heading toward a town-hall meeting in Harrisburg. Obama plans to stop a few times along the way to mingle with the populace.
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campaign of misogyny.— mjn- Comment removed.
- Did anyone get a chance to ask Obama why he wants to stay in a church that selected a known racist (Louis Farrakhan) as their Man of the Year because of what they call his greatness? Also, what greatness does his church see in a known racist that calls all white men "blue eyed devils"?— cj410
- Same old stuff from you guys. Vote for whoever you want and try to live a positive and meaningful life.— craigaa52
- Barack's a down to earth guy. Would've like to have seen him feeding the cow. By the way, Pres. Clinton brought Wright to the White House during his personal crisis. Nobody knew he was this bad. Obama denounced Rev. Wright and his comments.— tarik255
- Could this Philly media be more blatant in how obviously it's shilling for Obama? Just go ahead and get your endorsement in the paper already just to get it out of the way. Then put him on the cover, refer to him as the Messiah, and declare him greatest human being of all time. Next you can make a call on your editorial page for National Say Why You Love Obama Day to be held every other Tuesday by law. Could your bias be anymore ridiculous and obvious?— Jack Klompus
- Obama and Casey, better togther! We see how Obama can be a real person and,not self-possessed, a little like L.B.J.— Peter of Manassas
- Jacky seems like you are offended. This is reporting the news, not promoting the person. Anyway here is piece on HRC that might interest you - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955120.shtml— tomoguara
Obama has children still in grade school...What nation does he want for their adulthood:One that bails out Wall St. or one that bails out tuition?- 22,000 that is quite a crowd, I must confess. Anyway I think we need to know the truth about the candidates. Here is an interesting article on HRC that voters should know: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955120.shtml— tomoguara
- Additional interesting reads on HRC: Interesting articles on HRC that voters might want to know: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955120.shtml http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/13/whillary113.xml— tomoguara
- Additional interesting reads on HRC: Interesting articles on HRC that voters might want to know: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/opinion/main3955120.shtml http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/03/hillarys_balkan_adventures_par.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/13/whillary113.xml— tomoguara
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- The Washington Post's revelation that Obama LIED about his father's connection to the Kennedy family - should be front page news. Since the media has given Oblahma a pass from the gitgo - don't look for it. But there are videos of Obama repeating this LIE - easily refuted by the tons of documentation that Obama ignored. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/30/13655/6958 Obama will say and do anything to dupe the public!— JoseyJ
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