Barack is due to start speaking in about an hour at the Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark in Great Falls, and the crowd has been lining up for hours in order to get in! I spoke with Donna and Linda, both of whom live in Denton, Montana. This is the first time that they will be hearing Barack speak in person, and even though doors didn't open until 4:00 p.m., they arrived at the Expo Center by 2:30 p.m. Linda, an English and drama teacher, likes Barack's education plan and how he wants to make college affordable for all Americans. She says that Barack is intelligent, and likes how "he's not connected with lobbyists." She says:
He's got excellent ideas. I like how he expects us to work together...he'll be the people's President.
Donna, a nurse, says healthcare is an important issue to her, and she likes how "Barack can relate to our area. He gets the heartland and the west. He's worked in all levels of society."
Linda voted by absentee ballot for Barack, and Donna will be voting for Barack on Tuesday. Find your polling location, and make your voice heard on Tuesday, June 3!
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During an invocation at the New York State Republican Party dinner last night, delivered to a crowd including Rudy Giuliani and Rep. Peter King, and where Dick Cheney later spoke. In it, the priest, Monsignor Jim Lisante mockingly asks God to change Obama's mind and volunteers to replace Rev. Jeremiah Wright as Obama's pastor. "One more thing, Lord. Please tell Senator Obama that maybe change is a good thing and maybe he should think about changing his favorite preacher," he said, to applause. "I know a lot more of us would be comfortable with his judgment skills if he hadn’t sat for 20 years through those words offered by his preacher of division, bigotry, and – honestly – half truths without a word of objection from Senator until the media brought it up, and now he doesn’t want any part of the guy," he said. "I’m willing to be his new preacher." This isn't Lisante's first partisan invocation. He got attention for a prayerful attack on Eliot Spitzer a couple of years ago, which he jokes in the video above was "prophetic."
