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Quoth the Chanter at high volume, as the reality of her afternoon hit her like the proverbial lightning bolt:
"Holy crap! I just saw the president speak! In my city!"
EEEEEEEE!
Ahem. God dang, that was *cool!* I am so, so glad I went. And I am equally glad I didn't bring Bosco. He would've been overwhelmed, stepped on, or probably both, and that would've been shard-awful. But wow, what a diverse crowd. Thirty thousand or so people, black people, white people, everybody in between, languages and accents all across the spectrum - I heard one bloke who I'm pretty sure was from Nigeria, and one woman I'd have asked if she was English if she hadn't gone elsewhere before I could - wheelchairs, sign language users, and another sort of rainbow from the skin color variety... and that was just one rally! That was also one hell of a run-on sentence, but it stands anyway.
Lisa from the Whitewater forensics team went with me, and yes, we spent a few moments squee-ing and bouncing around at the joyful enormity of it all. I remember saying in response to her remark that the whole rainbow was represented in the crowd, "Of course it is, we're here!" Hey, the opportunity was there, and for once I took it. But oh my, the speech itself. We were both blown away by just how eloquent a person President Obama is. We agreed that he sounds like what he is, that is a well-spoken, well-educated man, where Bush sounded like a dork... and that's the politest thing we called Bush during that conversation, so yeah. I will say that Obama's giving the Republicans the keys back image was pretty funny from my end, considering. It still fit amazingly well, though. And there's a reason most people in Madison call Mayor Dave by his first name. Points for effort and courtesy trying to pronounce Cieslewicz, anyway. :) I can do it, but I grew up knowing two teachers called that.
Wheeeew. As I said to Lisa on the way out of Library Mall, that's one for the archives. Talk about living history, and I was smoosh in the middle of it. *beams!*
Jeez, I'm still grinning like a fool over here. :)
"Holy crap! I just saw the president speak! In my city!"
EEEEEEEE!
Ahem. God dang, that was *cool!* I am so, so glad I went. And I am equally glad I didn't bring Bosco. He would've been overwhelmed, stepped on, or probably both, and that would've been shard-awful. But wow, what a diverse crowd. Thirty thousand or so people, black people, white people, everybody in between, languages and accents all across the spectrum - I heard one bloke who I'm pretty sure was from Nigeria, and one woman I'd have asked if she was English if she hadn't gone elsewhere before I could - wheelchairs, sign language users, and another sort of rainbow from the skin color variety... and that was just one rally! That was also one hell of a run-on sentence, but it stands anyway.
Lisa from the Whitewater forensics team went with me, and yes, we spent a few moments squee-ing and bouncing around at the joyful enormity of it all. I remember saying in response to her remark that the whole rainbow was represented in the crowd, "Of course it is, we're here!" Hey, the opportunity was there, and for once I took it. But oh my, the speech itself. We were both blown away by just how eloquent a person President Obama is. We agreed that he sounds like what he is, that is a well-spoken, well-educated man, where Bush sounded like a dork... and that's the politest thing we called Bush during that conversation, so yeah. I will say that Obama's giving the Republicans the keys back image was pretty funny from my end, considering. It still fit amazingly well, though. And there's a reason most people in Madison call Mayor Dave by his first name. Points for effort and courtesy trying to pronounce Cieslewicz, anyway. :) I can do it, but I grew up knowing two teachers called that.
Wheeeew. As I said to Lisa on the way out of Library Mall, that's one for the archives. Talk about living history, and I was smoosh in the middle of it. *beams!*
Jeez, I'm still grinning like a fool over here. :)
