“We cannot stand four more minutes of this, forget four more years. I’m 79 years old. I’d like to go out a winner. And I sure as heck don’t want to see my family suffer through eight more years of this.” – Bob Walsh
Joe Biden began his two-day bus tour through Ohio this morning, holding his first gathering in front of 2,500 folks in a beautiful amphitheater in downtown Warren.
Bob Walsh, an ex-steel worker (and current fleamarket coin seller) from Warren who worked in metallurgical for 27 years, knows that there is a lot riding on this election. He sees that folks around here have been hurting and steadily their losing jobs for a long time now.
He believes that Barack and Joe’s promise to restore jobs in this country is one of the most important issues in this year’s election. Bob sees folks he knows trying to secure decent jobs, but they are struggling — because the jobs are simply not there.
“Anything they can get is better than nothing. That’s what they got now -- a bunch of nothing,” he told us.
Bob sees a lot of support for Barack and Joe, and feels pretty good about their chances around here.
“I don’t know about all of Ohio, but I know that Youngstown and Warren and Mahoning County should be very strong. And where I work at the fleamarket is strong. I’ve got 150 votes out there.”
How’d he get 150 pledged votes at the flea market?
“I sell coin. I have signs behind my counter. And I have a whole family of about 50 people and they are all voting for Barack and Joe.”
This is the second time that Bob has come out to see Joe speak here in Warren.
“When Joe got going toward the end there -- you know how he gets, all geared up? I love it when he does that. He really tells it like it is.”
Peter RubiOctober 14, 2008En Route St. Clairsville, Ohio
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