Your Time is Barack’s Time

Sun, January 06, 2008 - 11:36 PM

Like every presidential candidate in New Hampshire, Barack Obama had a series of campaign events today (Sun.) When he scheduled a campaign rally at Salem High School at 3:45 p.m., police directed traffic, cars soon jammed parking lots at the school and nearby municipal offices, and people lined up around the high school just to get in. Every seat in the school auditorium was quickly taken, and an overflow crowd was seated in the school cafeteria so they would watch the rally on TV. And so they sat and sat and sat.

Obama arrived nearly two hours late. He apologized but gave no clue what detained him.

His tardiness didn't seem to faze the warm and appreciative crowd. They listened attentively to his stump speech and cheered him. Obama shook a few hands after the speech and left without taking any questions.

-- Marsha Mercer