Obama Meetup

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slideshow OR pictures.

The meeting was a bit of a disappointment. Turn out was modest and few African Americans were there, esp. given the location .. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. . I thought the folks running it were not too good either. To professional, too preachy, nowhere enough OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA! Sam McKinney talked .. this his him in the picture. Do you know Sam? he is the long term pastor art Mt Zion, a true Scion of Seattle, His voice is getting weak now but at one time he made me think he was G-d. sam is getting a bit out-of-date. He ushed the old fashioned ideas of affirmative action.. proud to be a Democrat with one woman, one Hispanic, and one African running. Proud??? OK, but then he went on to say this was threatening to the whites. Sam, Sam ... we are goig t vote for Barack BECAUSE he is one of us, not because he is Black.

I was also surprised they did not have an Obama speech. This guy is a great speaker! Why not have a little bit of the man cheering us all on?

The organizer gave a weak speech on why BO is the man, flubbing th experience bit all together. Then they had a lady who is active in exchange programs with Kenya .. great lady, enthusiasm bubbled out of her. One sour note? She told a story about who folks in Kenya think highly of BO's dad ..the fell who abandoned young Barak in Hawaii .

Best part was meetin some Republicans who had come out of a sense that this time, THEIR candidate was running as a Democrat. Yay!! Yay !!