Obama-rama!

Guess who I saw on Thursday?!  That's right, you astute readers, I got to see President Obama speak at the University of Washington campus on Thursday in support of Senator Patty Murray. I think his official plan in Seattle was to discuss women voters and federal spending, but it always helps to tell people to get out and vote.

The line around the Heck Ed Pavillion was crazy long and I didn't think my friend and I stood a chance at actually getting into the arena, but persistence and waking up early paid off!  We had seats and they were not too shabby either.

View from our seats

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His speech was very good, as usual. He's generally an excellent, charismatic speaker, who actually sounds intelligent when he speaks (refreshing).  He had this analogy that I've heard he's used in a few other places about a car being driven into a ditch by the republicans. It was a pretty spot-on analogy, stating that the Dems are in the ditch pushing the car, and the Reps just wave from the sidelines, saying 'no' when asked if they'd like to help.  And the kicker, Obama says, is now that the Dems finally made some headway and got the car up and out of the ditch, the Reps want the keys back!  Pretty perfect. 

So America, when you want to go forward, as Obama so nicely pointed out, what do you do with your car?  You put it in D, not R. GO VOTE!!!

Obama at Top Pot donoughts.