Philadelphians rally for Barack!



Since I'm a newly registered-first time voter my phone has been getting regular calls from the Obama and Clinton campaigns urging me to vote for them. The other day I got a voice-mail from Bill Clinton urging me to go to the Clinton rally tonight on UPenn's campus! Then just now I got a recorded message from Barack Obama LOL, I feel so special hahaa *dies* Last Friday was the Obama rally in Old City in front of the Constitution Center, it was a really interesting experience, it was actually like going to a rock concert, in the sense that you have to sit through some lame opening acts and wait even more after they've gone for the headliner to appear. My b/f and I attended the rally, we got there at 6:30 pm and Obama came on stage at 8:45 pm! So we basically stood around for a really long time and when he came we couldn't even see him because we were so far back @.@; But everyone there was still really excited once we heard his voice through the loud speakers. The crowd was ENORMOUS! Idk it seemed like tens of thousands of people where there.



Tomorrow is the BIG day for PA and I can't wait for it to be fucking over, although the media attention that has been brought onto the state is nice, I'm tired of all these people who don't live here analyzing the demographics based on charts. For instance they keep saying how Obama depends on the African American vote, the rally I went to had a very DIVERSE crowd, old and young, white and black. He does NOT solely have the Black vote in his favor, he has a cross-section of people supporting him and saying that mostly Blacks support him seems like lazy journalism because if they did visit these rallies which they broadcast all the time they'd notice the cross-section of people D: Also it's been proven that predominantly white states DO vote for Obama since he's won quite a few so throwing in the race card into this is really annoying and lazy because its easier to chalk it up to race rather than the facts and their policies, and their policies are pretty similar anyway.



The two free city newspapers, (Philadelphia Weekly and City Paper) have both endorsed Obama, one paper said that if he won PA this long ass race will be over sooner rather than later! Another two months of this bullshit is going to be overwhelming especially with the media and the Clinton campaign grasping for straws and harping on little comments for negative attacks and trying to bleed a story out of nothing (see: endless coverage of "bitter" comments which Obama explained a million times by now). To me Hilary isn't doing anything to make herself more likeable, the fact that she participated in the negativity towards Obama in that ABC debate instead of standing above the fray and insist on discussing the ISSUES showed how she'd do anything to win.

The Obama volunteers have been doing a really good job of canvasing hte neighborhoods, for instance my neighborhood is full of signs hanging on the door urging people to vote for him. The City Paper did an undercover report on volunteering for both campaigns and they reported that the Obama people are very enthusiastic and grass roots and self starters, where-as the Hilary campaign volunteers are really jealous of this kind of support and aren't as well organized lol.

Omg Shakira was on the Situation Room talking about universal education, apparently Wolf Blitzer is a huge fan LMAO!! I really watch CNN wayyy too much *dies*

So tomorrow I go to vote for the first time ever! Its exciting, I hope the lines aren't obnoxiously long, we have to vote for our State Senator too I believe but since everything has been focused on the Presidential Campaign I have no idea what the Senator's respective policies are :x lol.

Also this weekend was great fun! For reasons I'll explain later we didn't end up making it to the Murakami exhibit at all, LOL! But we had plenty of booze, food and good times ♥
sokai I left your gift with nikui lol XD

Uhh I have so many photos to post from different things! :O