The Texas primary isn't until March 4, but the Democratic candidates are campaigning hard. Hillary's made a couple of visits to South Texas and spoke this week at the Dodge Arena. (Sadly, I couldn't go).
Barack's on his first swing through the RGV and he's speaking at UTPA this morning. Students lined University Drive waving placards and cheering when motorists honked. Half the campus is fenced off and I was lucky to get a parking spot at 8:15 am. Heaven help anyone who's trying to come to work now.
They'll open the gates at 9:30 but Barak isn't scheduled to speak until 11:30 am. Since I have actual work to do, I'm not going to stand in line or on the quad for 2 hours. I'll wander down about 11:00 and see what I can get.
Not planning to vote for him, but it is exciting to see people really energized about politics.
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We stood at our office's floor-to-ceiling windows and caught a glimpse of Obama as he walked toward the outdoor stage.
We turned on the TV to hear the speech but were cut short when our supervisor had a 12:30 meeting. So we watched the rest of the speech online.
Obama is a talented, charismatic speaker. I wish his handlers had taught him to pronounce "Si se puede" correctly, though. And his delivery was less fluid when he told the story of MLK contacting Hugo Chavez to say that their causes were the same. I'm guessing that was a new bit tailored to the UTPA crowd.
Other than that, it was a nice speech, filled with talking points perhaps tailored to Valley causes (veterans, making college affordable, fixing a broken immigration system and health care availability).
The news commentary immediately afterward said Obama spoke for 37 minutes (and covered the same ground Hillary did in 15 minutes earlier this week) and the heat had gotten to some participants.
The reporter said one woman had fainted as was taken away by ambulance, but from our windowed vantage point, we saw at least 3 women taken out on stretchers.
Didn't get much work done this morning, but it was a fun people-watching and political event.
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