Barack Obama

  • Mines
The times they are a-changin’.

This post seems to be older than 15 years—a long time on the internet. It might be outdated.

I’m about a week late in blogging this, but such is the case when more important things arise. In any event, Obama was at the Colorado School of Mines last Tuesday. I managed to get four hours of sleep before I arose at the crack of 6am. I was on campus just before 7 and then proceeded to wait another hour and a half before we (the working press) were able to get in.

Kind of ridiculous if you ask me.

We finally did get in. I got setup and the waiting started. Several times, people would stand up and share some reason why they were going to vote for Obama and everyone would cheer and applaud. A woman, who I was told was part of the Avenue Q cast, also sang a beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

The program finally got underway:
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Kyle Caskey, president of the CSM Young Democrats, lead the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Jacob Smith, Mayor of Golden.

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John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver.

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Bill Ritter, Governor of Colorado.

And then there was some waiting. We were running a little bit a head of schedule and Obama was running a little bit (well, 30 minutes actually) late.

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Federico Peña, former Mayor of Denver, filling the time.

Finally, the program got started:
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Peggy Roach, a local woman from Lakewood, has the pleasure of sharing her story and then introducing Senator Obama.

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Senator Barack Obama quites the crowd.

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Senator Barack Obama.

Don’t forget, there are always more pictures (and video) over at Flickr: Barack Obama at the Colorado School of Mines

Best guess is around 2300 spectators in attendence. Not terrible traffic. I had two classes canceled because of Obama and two more canceled because a professor missed his connection at JFK. Surprisingly, there were very few protesters.

See also: The Oredigger: Barack Obama at Mines

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