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20,000 rally in the rain for Obama at the University of Mary Washington

Posted September 29th, 2008 under Headlines Tags: , , , ,

ABC News:

The rain pouring down, his jacket off, his white dress-shirt clinging to his body, Barack Obama played to a crowd in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1964.

Obama and his running mate Delaware Sen. Joe Biden took the stage at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., before a crowd of 10,000 to 20,000 people who had been waiting hours in the mud to see them. The weather in northern Virginia has been awful the last couple of days.  And not long after Joe Biden’s introduction, just minutes after Obama started speaking, the rain started falling again.

Obama spoke for just under 30 minutes, and used the unruly weather as a metaphor nearing the end of his speech.

“Sometimes the skies look cloudy and it’s dark. And you think the rains will never pass,” Obama preached, “The young people understand that the clouds -– these too will pass, that a brighter day will come.”

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