President Obama came to the University of Washington last Thursday to promote the campaign of the Democrat's senatorial candidate Patty Murry. People were camped out the day before in order to get as close to the president as possible for his speech. Some of my like minded political friends and I decided to come to the rally to express our view of the president's work so far in office. The three of us ended up representing a large cross-section of those in the middle and to the right of the political spectrum. Me being a more traditional right winger and the others being much more of the liberation bent provided contrast to what some would call the "radical" opposition.
Once we arrived at the rally we saw other protesters and were surprised, by the radical nature of the groups that were there. Most surprising were some of the radical leftest groups that were there protesting the unsuccessful implication of their leftest agenda. In a jest we decided to make a quick sign stating "I'm not crazy I just don't like Obama". This sign was meant to provide commentary on the radical nature of the other protesters. Overall our message was successful received. We were given the "bird" a few times and a few people yelled comical phrases such as "
If it wasn't for Obama you would live in the streets"
. Our goal was to get people to think more realistically of the policies that Obama and the people in power are trying to implement.
With the high level of unemployed among college graduates and young adults, you would think they would wonder what was causing this horrible economic climate. Even with only three of us, we were interviewed by the majority of the news organizations and was quoted in the Seattle Times, until the quote was removed later by the editor to mak
e room for the Republican chairman comments. Before we were "edited out of the event" i got a copy of the online article. The online article stated:
"Alexander Smith, 21, from Olympia, heads the Student Freedom Project, a conservative student group. He came to Seattle from Washington State University and was standing outside Hec Ed with two UW students.
"We're here to have an academic debate. We're not crazy," said Smith, who carried a sign saying, "shortchanged by ...Obama." -Seattle times
We were also interviewed by Q-13 ,Fox, The Daily, Associated Press, and other local press. Surprisingly they were more interested to learn more about our views then the radicals only ten feet away. Over all our small protest made a bigger impact then we originally imagined and was a worth while event. I will be interested to see the college students reactions to the November election and how they will feel with the new people in office. Will they then see the problems our nation is going to face around the corner or will they turn another blind eye?
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