Richmond gets a visit from a former president
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Bill Clinton came to Richmond today, and Matt and I decided to join everyone else from my office and attend his speech. I am personally not a big fan, but it was such an amazing opportunity that I couldn’t pass it up. It actually turned out to be quite interesting. Clinton came to one of the local fire stations, and they only let in 500 people. This left another 500 or so standing in the rain outside the fire station listening to his speech over the speaker system. There was quite a buzz in the air, and a lot of people were very excited to get a glimpse of our former president. A few of my friends were even able to shake his hand.
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There were snipers on the roof tops of nearby buildings and secret services agents all over the place. As for his speech, like most politicians I have heard, he said a lot of things that sounded wonderful in theory. It was chock full of emotion- inducing buzz words like clean energy, balanced budget, universal health care, Iraq, and elect-ability. Unfortunately, I was left with the same question I am always left with no matter what party the candidate is from… HOW? How is Hillary, or any of the other candidates for that matter, going to accomplish all their lofty goals, and how much of what we are hearing is just empty campaign promises soon to be forgotten upon election. Or in Bill’s case, upon his wife’s election.
Call me cynical, but I am still not sure I trust any of them…
On the positive side, I got to experience a political rally for the first time, and what an experience it was. There are rumors that Obama will be campaigning here in two weeks, and I may just have to go to that too.
For more photos from the event, check out my photos section.
March 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
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