Last night, despite feeling the first flakes of an overnight snowstorm, 2,100 people crowded the Park Plaza Castle in the heart of the Hub. They came to hear about Barack’s vision for the future--how to break free of the partisan gridlock of the past two decades and bring about real change in Washington.
The past few weeks have seen opposing candidates begin to step up politics-as-usual attacks on Barack, even as he has picked up steam in the early voting primary states. Barack reminded the crowd that his campaign is not about being a textbook politician. It’s about a grassroots movement for real change in this country.
“It’s amazing how you go from being D.O.A. to being a genius in about three weeks,” he said. “But right now, we’re going pretty good in Iowa, and we’re going pretty good in New Hampshire, because the American people are ready for change and this campaign is about change that you can believe in.”
Barack continued:
We have a chance in this election, because the American people are paying attention, to not just change political parties in the White House but to change how politics is done in Washington. To seize that moment… we can’t just run the same old textbook Washington campaigns that we’ve become accustomed to… If we are serious about changing this county, if we’re serious about winning this election, then we can’t live in fear of losing it.
Between the Red Sox, the Patriots and the Celtics, the Boston area knows how to cheer on a contending team, and the capacity crowd greeted Barack’s speech with raucous applause
After the event, David, a Cambridge resident, said, “Barack brings a common decency to the race that sets him apart from the other candidates.”
The graduate student first saw Barack speak in 2003 in Manteno, IL, and recalls being incredibly impressed with Barack’s stature and intellect.
“I could see then that he was on the path to assuming a national leadership role, but I never thought he’d be on the verge of becoming out next president,” he said.
“It just shows that people are really looking for a different kind of leader in this election.”
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