Tears in Chicago: Barack Obama Emotionally Tells Campaign Volunteers His Story

By
Greg Diamond
– November 8, 2012Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice

I think that even Obama’s detractors might want to see this one.

I like this guy. I think he’s going places.

(Also note: no teleprompter.)

Obama thanking volunteers

My big disappointment with him right now is that he doesn’t start off speeches with “Salaam Alekum” just to freak out the bigots.

Here’s some tidbits from a piece on another site:

This happened yesterday, November 7.

It happened at Obama HQ in Chicago.

Obama gets emotional several times, but the human magic happens from 3:22 to 3:59.

The guy that speaks out when Obama starts crying seems to be saying, “Hold on, Barack, hold on”, in a sort of communal, sermonic, “testifying” exchange. …

Those dudes by the wall to the right of Obama are David Axelrod (with the glorious ‘stache) and Jim Messina (who threw an epic fist pump at 0:03). …

More about Messina: Messina was in charge of the campaign. He was the David Plouffe of 2012. And boy did he knock that out of the ballpark. You can read here about the highly secretive data-crunching team Messina put together that is at the heart of why Obama got re-elected.

Make fun of those tears, radical Republicans. We can still hear you, so the hole that you’ve dug for yourselves is not yet deep enough.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)