Tonight, Barack is going to be on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart! Make sure you tune in to Comedy Central at 11 pm EDT.Alyson West and Raina Moore were selected to meet Barack and watch him live at the filming of the Daily Show in New York.
Alyson lives in Atlanta, GA and works as a project manager for a non-profit organization, focusing on aiding New Orleans small business owners who lost their livelihoods during Katrina. When she, along with 20,000 other Atlantans, saw Barack speak at Georgia Tech this spring, she was "electrified:”
It was amazing. I remember thinking, 'He's reaching out to us, he's engaging us differently. This guy is telling the truth in a way that hasn't been told before.' We needed to be shaken like that, to be surprised by him, to be energized, and I felt that in that crowd.
"Barack makes me feel American," she says. "He doesn't make me feel liberal. He doesn't make me feel black. He doesn't make me feel female. He makes me feel American."Her enthusiasm for the campaign grew when she attended a small gathering with Michelle Obama in Atlanta.
I feel like I'm spitting clichés, but Michelle is the real deal. She's intelligent, a wonderful wife, but an independent person. Together, they're so genuine-- they're not like the dolls you pull a string on. There's something about them--their relationship and the way they communicate with people like me who were on the fence—its impressive.
Alyson decided to invite her friend Raina to meet Barack at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Alyson and Raina, both huge Daily Show fans, have been best friends since they met at Spelman College in 1995. They still talk every day and spend every Thanksgiving together.
Raina currently works as a Spanish teacher at Dr Freddie Thomas High School in Rochester, NY and hopes to ask Barack about his thoughts on No Child Left Behind—a program she feels stifles her ability to teach. Before going into teaching, Raina spent three years in the foreign service, issuing visas in Monterrey, Mexico, and says that immigration is another topic she looks forward to discussing with Senator Obama.Raina was thrilled when she got the call about meeting Barack at the Daily Show. She says she's looking forward to meeting Barack in person and she also says she's there to keep Alyson at arm's length from Jon Stewart. "Alyson's got a big crush on him. I told her that I'm the only one strong enough to keep her away from Jon Stewart. I'm going to remind her 'He's a married man, you have a boyfriend.'"
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