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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Obama's response to fainting at Barack rallies ("here, have a Brawndo. It's got electrolytes") , with a brief history, and video clips
This is a really weird story and it is spreading rapidly--as these things tend to do--over the 'net.
My son, Del, came home from the Obama rally in Seattle a week ago today and told us about a woman fainting in the audience, and how Obama asked the crowd for help, and then passed a bottle of water down from the stage. At the time, I jokingly told Del, "yeah, she travels on his plane. She's his fainter."
Fainting is not unusual at campaign rallies. If you do a G.I.S., you'll find several stories of people fainting this month at rallies held by all three Clintons: Bill, Hill, and Chelsea. It will be interesting to see if this story has legs. I hope not.
There is a hint in some accounts I've read that the faintings are a direct response to Senator Obama's power as a vector of hope, love, and change; to his almost Messianic followers who look at him figureatively and literally as a sort of savior. When I was a young river-dunked Baptist, I went to a few revivals, and it was a feature of these big meetings in arenas, racetracks, and camps. When there was serious testifying going on, women would faint. The "Deacons" were all equipped with smelling salts and extra handerchiefs. And people would faint when The Call came (the call to come on stage and accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior) and you could stand up and wash away your sins with the blood of the lamb.
1 comment:
Anonymous
said...
So, repeating this story, with your usual half baked embellishments makes it OK? Aren't you just part of the internet you seem to decry? You talk about the story spreading, and then do your part to ensure it does!
1 comment:
So, repeating this story, with your usual half baked embellishments makes it OK? Aren't you just part of the internet you seem to decry? You talk about the story spreading, and then do your part to ensure it does!
That's why we love you.
Al
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