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    Mile High Youth for Obama

    This is a great article about the typical young Barry Obama supporters:

    http://article.nationalreview.com/pr...FlMzJkM2RhNTA=

    Denver — Invesco Field at Mile High is, of course, a mile high. If you climb up to the top of Level 5, to the tippy-top of the nosebleeds, you’ll be a few hundred feet higher. And if you have a few beers, or perhaps smoke a little something, you’ll be higher still.

    And that is how I run into Brooke, Nouri, and Dave, three 20-somethings waiting to see Barack Obama accept the presidential nomination of the Democratic party. Up at the very top of the grandstands, there are a few hundred empty seats; even Obama can’t fill every spot in the house. These seats face directly west, and the sun is beating down pretty hard; people are using their blue Obama CHANGE signs to shield themselves. Brooke, on the other hand, is loving it, and she has taken off her tank top to reveal a fairly skimpy black bra.

    As Sheryl Crow finishes up a set of songs down on the 50-yard line, I ask why they climbed all the way up here. “My rationale eludes me now,” says Brooke, slurring her words ever so slightly. “However, there is a great view of the Rocky Mountains to the west. I sit here soaking in the sun. I have no shirt on.” Pause. “This is a good day.”

    Brooke, who lives in Denver, is 24 and works in a local arts program. Dave, 23, lives in Connecticut, and isn’t doing a lot now. “I was recently working in an organic lettuce farm in Hawaii, and after that I was a camp counselor, and I’m currently unemployed,” he tells me. Nouri, 22, lives in New York and works for a documentary filmmaker — he’s here tonight as part of a project “making movies about protests and questioning the validity of both the convention and protesting and trying to find a place in that dynamic.” The three of them met when they were students at Wesleyan.

    They all admire Obama and very much want him to become president. If that happens, I ask, what would they like to see him do?

    “Tangibly?” asks Brooke.

    “Well, yes — tangibly.”

    “I just think that he has the capacity to really rally people together in a way that I haven’t seen before,” she says. “The other day, I went to the Denver Coliseum to see Rage Against the Machine and the Flobots. And I was astounded by their ability to musically rally a large amount of people towards peaceful protest. There was an amazing march that ensued after the concert; it was unbelievably peaceful and rule-y, as opposed to unruly, but focused and determined, and I feel that on a more general level I would love to see Barack rally a large amount of people, a very large amount of people, all together.”
    It even gets better! Read the article!!!

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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    I expected this to be from a really biased source, but this:

    Dave, 23, lives in Connecticut, and isn’t doing a lot now. “I was recently working in an organic lettuce farm in Hawaii, and after that I was a camp counselor, and I’m currently unemployed,” he tells me.
    made me LOL. I wonder how much of that organic lettuce he was consuming...?
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    You just let Radiohead or Dave Matthews Band release a CD a couple of days before the election and see what the turnout will be.

    Dismal for the donks, I'm tellin' ya.

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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by tommieharris91 View Post
    I expected this to be from a really biased source, but this:



    made me LOL. I wonder how much of that organic lettuce he was consuming...?
    Wonder if it was arugula?
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Curly Bill View Post
    Wonder if it was arugula?
    IT WAS ORGANIC LETTUCE!!!
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by tommieharris91 View Post
    IT WAS ORGANIC LETTUCE!!!
    It's the same thing (sort of) except regular people eat lettuce, and elite people eat arugula.
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Curly Bill View Post
    It's the same thing (sort of) except regular people eat lettuce, and elite people eat arugula.
    Arugula must be a new word for marijuana. I've always heard about oregano, but arugula...
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by tommieharris91 View Post
    Arugula must be a new word for marijuana. I've always heard about oregano, but arugula...
    So you're reporting that Brack is a dope smoker? Can I run with that?
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Curly Bill View Post
    So you're reporting that Brack is a dope smoker? Can I run with that?
    Well, the title of this thread is High Youth for Obama

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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Sooner Eclipse View Post
    Well, the title of this thread is High Youth for Obama
    Indeed, I didn't recognize that obvious clue.
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Curly Bill View Post
    So you're reporting that Brack is a dope smoker? Can I run with that?
    ...I cannot confirm or deny that...
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by tommieharris91 View Post
    ...I cannot confirm or deny that...
    Then that means it's true!

    Did you hear that Brack eats babies? It's breaking news.
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by Curly Bill View Post
    Then that means it's true!

    Did you hear that Brack eats babies? It's breaking news.
    I always he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Quote Originally Posted by tommieharris91 View Post
    I always he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
    Anti-Christ you fool!
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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    “I just think that he has the capacity to really rally people together in a way that I haven’t seen before,” she says. “The other day, I went to the Denver Coliseum to see Rage Against the Machine and the Flobots. And I was astounded by their ability to musically rally a large amount of people towards peaceful protest.
    So to this chick, "bringing people together" means "having protests". If BO wins, it's going to be an interesting 4 years with people like these coming out of every knothole.

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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    This is definetly the typical Obama supporter. A high teenager-young adult.

    Good call.

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    Re: Mile High Youth for Obama

    Puff puff, cast ballot?

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