Just Do It Edition

Barack Rocks

Know what? I just like hearing him talk. I tune into CNN every day because I hope they'll broadcast a few minutes of one of his rallies. I sit through the inevitable McCain segments thinking, yeah, but in ten minutes they'll have Barack on. Imagine having a president whose voice doesn't make you cringe. Imagine WANTING to tune in to see what the president is saying, not only because he makes you feel positive, but because he makes you feel motivated..... Six days, everyone. Six days.

The man is freakin' brilliant. I'm watching his rally in Raleigh, North Carolina this morning on CNN and Obama is pushing early voting in North Carolina. He asks, how many of you have early voted? People put their hands up. And then he said, "Now keep your hands up. Those of you who have voted early, talk to the people next to you and tell them how easy it is to early vote."

He doesn't miss a trick. There's a commotion in the crowd when an audience member faints, and he calmly stops mid-speech, calls for emergency services, tells them to give the person some space and water, passes over his own water, and then picks up his speech without missing a damn beat! When a second person fainted, he sent over an EMT, and then said, "I just want all of you to eat before you come to these rallies!"

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Apologies for the shorter edition today -- too much actual...um...work I gotta do today. *Sigh.* Doesn't mean I'm turning CNN off though!

(Renate and Daniel, this photo is for you, Obama in Wynnewood, PA during his whistle-stop train tour of Pennsylvania last April.)

WaPo reports that Barack Obama's 30-minute informercial airing Wednesday night "will feature vignettes of people and families whom Obama has met during his nearly two-year campaign, and it will include a live component from a campaign rally in Florida, campaign sources said tonight. Barack Obama: American Stories is the name of the unusual telecast that will air on network television and some cable stations. It comes on a busy day, as Obama also is set to appear on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and to cap the night with another rally, in Orlando, with former President Bill Clinton, timed to make the late-night news broadcasts in the Eastern and Central time zones." Interestingly, they also report that there will be a Spanish language version to air on Univision.

The description at the NY Times (who got to see a minute of the show already!) makes me think of Obama's intro video from the convention -- could that possibly offer a sneak peek at some of the themes in his half hour program tonight?