Clinton thread
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"I helped rig a 4- by 10-foot sign in the restaurant. Chelsea Clinton would be here in 30 minutes.
No one heard when it began, but we soon realized there was a background noise. We stopped to listen: It was a static-riddled voice, like someone was speaking into a megaphone.
'... words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage ...'
It was coming from the brownstone next to Cobre.
'... it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup ...'
On what looked like the fourth floor, someone had attached a small speaker to the building, and pointed it toward us. The voice picked up.
'... the press has scoured every exit poll for the latest evidence of racial polarization ...'
"Is that God?" asked an older volunteer.
"No," I said, standing near the brownstone, "that's Obama."
Someone was blasting Obama's speech on race, delivered nine days before at the National Constitution Center, on repeat. The brownstone door opened, and out came a guy who looked like a young Clint Eastwood. He had on wraparound sunglasses and a houndstooth fedora. He sat on the stoop, gazed into the distance.
"What's going on?" asked one of the staffers. We explained. "My god," she said, "I can't fucking stand Obama people."
This one person's show managed to draw attention away from Chelsea Clinton's event, which took hours to organize. It's simple, grassroots, startup ideas like this that have poked holes in the Clintons' carefully crafted messages."