As I have stated before, I attend Lawrence North High School. Friday I was informed that Barack Obama would be making a very private, invitiation only speech to a few people. I immediately went to my dad who said he knew nothing about it, and he called Kip Tew who is a manager at the Obama Headquarters down town (There are two, he doesn’t work at the one I wrote of before) and even he didn’t know about it. Soon Kip was informed he would be there and my dad and I got tickets in the same day.
This morning I woke up at 9:00 AM to get ready for Obama’s speech, I arrived at about 11:00 there was a decent crowd there and we were all informed to take off Obama buttons because, as I was later informed me, this would be a serious speech on poverty. No one knew what time he was going to go on and speak but he soon was on at a little after 12:00, actually right on time at 12:45. Which was the now estimated start time. There were no LN students there and few teachers managed to show up. The principal of our school Steven Goeglein had sent out an email to all the teachers but it looked like only few wanted to participate in what seemed like to me, a very big honor.
Obama was introduced by the Fisher family who live in Beech Grove and who he had spoken with. Then him and his wife came on, and soon she left leaving him at the podium. He spoke about Hillary’s plans and how they were understandable but not what we needed, how she wanted to try the gas plan holiday, but it had already been done and amounted to failure. Obama who is notorious for not having any real plans went over a few of them but not as much as you would have hoped. He gave a general rough draft of what would happen. Other than that, it was very pro-America, saying how most of these plans sounded very one man-ed but the country would fall from it together. We needed to be unified
Tim Russert managed to show up to watch the speech, no there was no George Stephanopoulos, but Tim managed to get a few people standing up, (when it was all over I went up and got a picture with him) and then the camera’s came out and they were all told to sit down when the Fisher family stepped up to the microphone. Obama’s two girls made an appearance as well in the beginning and the end. It was just very calm and I thought, needed speech.
Tomorrow night is the ever so important J.J. Dinner event which I am lucky to be attending and of course there will be a blog about that. Also my mother’s name was chosen (..ok so my dad gave the people my moms name) for a question on Clinton. Yes, you heard correctly the whole Russert/Stephanopoulos rivalry has hit Indiana. My mom plans to ask about Clinton’s deal with college tuition, even though her and my dad have already voted for whomever they have voted for, no candidates names will be dropped here of who, but she’s excited.
Only Clinton news I have for right now is on Thursday night I went down with my family to a very homey Irish pub at 8:30 to see Sean Astin come in and try to talk everyone into voting Hillary. We met him and he was Very well informed. I also hear on the local news Clinton is ahead by 10% here. 48% to Barack’s 38%, but we know how polls/statics work.
Tags: hillary clinton, Barack Obama, lawrence north high school, beech grove, fisher family, tim russert, george stephanopoulus, indianapolis
