Elenamary

I went to see Barack Obama speak in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, and a suburb where one of my favorite bloggers, El Oso, spent part of his childhood.

Speakers included some of my favorite Ohio Democrats including:

• Richard Cordray, I totally love Richard Cordray and he is a big supporter of Latinos in Ohio),
• Mary Jo Kilroy, another big supporter of Latinos and has worked with Migrant Farm working unions including FLOC for decades.  She is an amazing grassroots organizer.
• Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland both of whom give you the feeling of old school AFL-CIO Clintonite democrats.  Here is an entry on my first thoughts on Ted Strickland.
• And the last Ohio Democrat to speak, was John Glenn.

When John Glenn was introduced the crowd around me began to boo.  I was appalled.  They weren’t booing at John Glenn they were booing at the fact that he was going to speak.  The people around me had come to see Barack Obama speak and were loudly complaing “Who is John Glenn?”  “When is Obama going to speak?”  They seemed honestly surprised that there were other speakers.  And I kept hearing the question “Who is she?”  “Who is he?”  I could not understand how people at a political rally didn’t know who their own governor was!

I thought how uninformed are these people that came to see Obama?  But I don’t know if uninformed is the word or idea I want.  When Obama began to speak the same people who had booed when John Glenn was introduced and asked who Senator Brown was, began to quote Obama’s speech.  They quoted his speech while he spoke the way gay boys sing along to Madonna.  It was crazy.