Well today was a bit more interesting. Senator Barack Obama flew into the airport and spoke at ECU. I was presented with a choice: stay at the airport and get a shot of his 757-200 landing, or go to campus and attend the rally. I decided to go to the rally. it was awesome. Obama is an amazing speaker, as most know. Personally, I felt the whole time like he was speaking to me. He seemed to really speak to the people. Those who really live day by day in rural America. The average American. Ya know.....me.

Anyways, the line to get in was HUGE. There were probably about 8,000 people outside in line to get in. A student line and a general admission line. The students were guarateed in. Which was awesome, cause that meant that instead of me having to stay overnight or get there at about noon to get a good seat, I got there at 3:30pm, 30 mins before the doors opened, and got in, down on the floor, and ultimately only about 25 feet from where Obama was speaking at. It was great.

After this speech, a fwe of us were told to stay behind. We had no idea why, and they would not tell us. Only about 200 of us were still there of the originally about 8,000. It was then we were told that Obama was coming back out, which was awesome enough in itself. Then we found out he was going to be doing a small interview with Stephen Colbert for The Colbert Show tonight on Comedy Central. Everyone was going nuts. Anyways, Obama came out, and after listening in on the parts of the show leading up to our part, they went live to us, and Obama, using cue cards, quipped back and forth with Colbert about how the questions from the media and in the debates were the same over and over, and how it should change. Colbert said it should because "it allows us to ask the same questions over and over and over without any effort." That was pretty funny. So we watched it tonight, and sure enough, there I was, jest to the right of his shoulder. You couldnt tell it was me, cause it was kinda far away, but I knew it was me. It was pretty awesome to see.

Between the speech and the show, I went out to the airport to see him leave. The 757 had been parked RIGHT next to the GA terminal. So when the motorcade came in, we saw him get out and go up into the plane. Then it ran up the Rolls Royce engines and taxiied out. Blew sand everywhere too. It back-taxiied on rwy 02 and took off. LOUD. Wow. And cars on the hwy behind it STOPPED! That was kinda funny to see. After that, it was back home to watch the show.

Can't get my shots of him to load onto pbase right now for some reason, so when i get it, I will post them!!!


For now, have a good night, and a great day tomorrow

Justin, signing off......