George Mason and Obama

By: seamusotoole
Published On: 2/2/2007 11:23:21 PM

On February 2nd Barack Obama addressed Northern Virginia college students at the Students for Barack Obama Rally at George Mason University.  Students, faculty and community members filled the Johnson Building Atrium area carrying signs that read, "Students for Barack Obama." There had to be over a thousand people who attended this event. Very impressive indeed! This high energy event was organized entirely by George Mason students.  The Young Democrats of GMU were out there in force. Thank you for all of your hard work to make this happen.

Obama's enthusiastic message was clear and focused on the students and young people. "It is easy to be cynical and believe that the world can't change," according to Obama.  However, he urged all attending, to take risks and be bold, have hope and get over fears and look squarely at problems and decide we can solve them. He believes that a transformation in America needs to occur in the areas of health care, education costs, the war, and energy policies and urged students to help out with making these changes.  He stated he could not do this alone!

He mingled with the crowd for quite a while, signed books and shook hands!  He'd love to have students join his campaign.  Check out www.studentsforbarackobama.com. If you aren't a student, please check out this website for further information on Senator Obama.

We will be attending other rallies for other Democratic Presidential candidates over the next few months.  If you hear of any other events that we should announce to our members, please email us at cliftonwomendems@aol.com so that we can check out the entire field.  Having this event occur in Virginia is more positive proof that Virginia is indeed turning BLUE!!!

Mary Lee and Jane Barker

Comments



GMU is so significant (Chris Guy - 2/3/2007 2:31:42 AM)
It's ground zero for progressive politics in NoVA, which in turn is spreading to other parts of the commonwealth.


Rally courtesy of Facebook (Lowell - 2/3/2007 8:11:02 AM)
"Mobilized Online, Thousands Gather to Hear Obama".  My, the times they are a changin'...


If you could not get to GMU on Friday (NovaDem - 2/3/2007 4:49:40 PM)
Here is the link to the Whole Speech

And here in my opinion is one of the best parts of the speech where Obama speaks about Bending the Arc

Also I was there with two other members of Next Generation Democrats, and I saw several other local dems like precinct captain Joanna Delune, and Webb Brigade member and Braddock district co-chair Marc Greidinger, as well as local blogger and GMU student Bryan J. Scrafford(who also has coverage of the event and his photos up). 

Anyone else from the community make it?



I was standing right next to the photographer with red hair... (Ambivalent Mumblings - 2/3/2007 7:09:01 PM)
.... in the first picture, so I was pretty lucky. I was most definitely a good event and I hope it results in some of the other candidates coming to the northern Virginia region.