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...it was a great group and very multi-cultural. The place was packed (either 4,000 or 10,000, according to different reports, and people had to be turned away). I got there more than an hour before and joined the long line around the convention hall. The atmosphere inside was electric. The speech way beyond anything I've ever heard--filled with inspiration and substance. I especially liked the idea of removing private companies from the college loan business. Back when Hillary was in law school, she borrowed tuition from the National Education Defense Act at 2 per cent ("because our country thought that having educated people was part of national defense") and the amount she had to pay back each month was based on her salary, so students could work at non-profits and be teachers, and so forth, rather than being forced to work at high-wage jobs to pay back high-interest loans. She also addressed vocational training. There aren't enough trained people to install the solar panels that people want. With all of the jobs that have gone abroad (and she would remove the tax incentives to do this), we need to direct our human talent to the tasks at hand to become energy independent (the oil companies won't get any tax breaks any more).
Health care for all, not one person one left out. Also, the abomination called "No Child Left Behind" will be abolished, replaced with universal pre-schooling.
The event was transformative to me. I left a better person than when I arrived, amazed by all the positive energy. Parents were taking photos of their daughters holding Hillary signs. College girls were posing with signs in front of a backdrop of an American flag.
Arriving that early meant that I didn't get too close to the stage, but that didn't matter.
Having read the mainstream media reports, I expected only about 100 to 200 people to be there so brought paper for an autograph, but afterward I realized that something odd is going on in terms of how his campaign is being represented. I then dropped by a local campaign office to evaluate it. It was the most impressive group of people I've ever encountered at a campaign office (and I been hanging around them since I was a child).
I am donating money because I know that I'll more than be paid back by the kind of country and economy this candidate will give us versus what the other candidates can deliver.
And she is warm, attractive, and charismatic. Someone who is completely comfortable in her own skin. No preening, no arrogance, no manipulation.
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