March 30, 2008

Obama fills the Forum: liveblog by Chris Couragen

 [my editorial comments in brackets.]
Barack Obama, in Harrisburg to campaign in the Pennsylvania primary, drew applause from a crowd at The Forum with lines like these: “We need to break the politics of fear that uses 9/11 to scare up votes”; a promise to “obey the constitution of the United States”; and an aspiration to [...]

March 30, 2008

Obama entertains 22,000 at PennState: liveblog from Daniel Victor

UNIVERSITY PARK — There isn’t usually a lot of movement in State College on a Sunday morning.
But this morning, a line to see Barack Obama speak on the steps of Old Main at 1:30 p.m. was longer than any line Beaver Stadium has seen.
Two to four people wide at every point, the line begins outside [...]

March 30, 2008

Where’s Obama?

For the past couple of weeks, I have kept in my edit buffer a concern/complaint about the small amount of campaigning Barack Obama has done in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.   Bill “the lech” Clinton has done more campaigning in this state than Obama has done (I am unimpressed with Dickinson’s female law students breathlessly commenting on [...]