About Me: Aaron Deslatte is a reporter for the Florida Capital Bureau. He has covered government and state politics for eight years in Missouri, Arkansas and Florida.
Starship Obama has Landed
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama drew the rock-star treatment in Tallahassee Friday that he's been getting routinely on the campaign trail.
In side the closed-door noon reception at the Challenger Discovery Center, Democratic state Rep. Loranne Ausley of Tallahassee said she had met people who came from Alabama and a 17-year Republican who changed his voter registration to support him.
House Democratic Leader Dan Gelber even termed it "Starship Obama," when throngs of interns, reporters and House and Senate staffers flooded the House Minority Office to get a glimpse of him.
Fellow lawmaker Curtis Richardson was one of a long line of local politicos who got on stage at thte Discovery Center and wielded a bigger flame-thrower than the Illinois senator himself.
"We've been mired in Republican scandals for almost eight years," he bellowed. "We're got to send this Democratically controlled Congress a president they can work with."
Outside the IMAX, over 200 students and assorted Obama troopers passed out buttons, danced, and flocked around the candidate when he stepped out in-between the private events to give a three-minute address from atop a park bench.
Here's the gist of what he said:
"Every time in every moment of our history, when we've had major challenges, whether it's been slavery, or women not having the right to vote, or unions not having the right to organize, or the civil rights movement, or the movement against Vietnam, at each juncture it's been young people who really lifted their sights and said we can imagine an America that's different than the one we have now."
"That's the kind of energy and mobilization we're going to need if we want to fix a health care system that's broken, if we want to make sure every child gets a decent education and can afford to go to college. That's what we're going to need if we want to bring an end to a war that should have never been authorized."
"That's what we're going to need to meet the energy challenges of the future and make sure we don't melt the polar ice caps and destroy the climate of the planet."
"That's what we're going to need to deal with not only terrorism, but poverty and chaos in places like sub-Saharan Africa that breed terrorism."
In side the closed-door noon reception at the Challenger Discovery Center, Democratic state Rep. Loranne Ausley of Tallahassee said she had met people who came from Alabama and a 17-year Republican who changed his voter registration to support him.
House Democratic Leader Dan Gelber even termed it "Starship Obama," when throngs of interns, reporters and House and Senate staffers flooded the House Minority Office to get a glimpse of him.
Fellow lawmaker Curtis Richardson was one of a long line of local politicos who got on stage at thte Discovery Center and wielded a bigger flame-thrower than the Illinois senator himself.
"We've been mired in Republican scandals for almost eight years," he bellowed. "We're got to send this Democratically controlled Congress a president they can work with."
Outside the IMAX, over 200 students and assorted Obama troopers passed out buttons, danced, and flocked around the candidate when he stepped out in-between the private events to give a three-minute address from atop a park bench.
Here's the gist of what he said:
"Every time in every moment of our history, when we've had major challenges, whether it's been slavery, or women not having the right to vote, or unions not having the right to organize, or the civil rights movement, or the movement against Vietnam, at each juncture it's been young people who really lifted their sights and said we can imagine an America that's different than the one we have now."
"That's the kind of energy and mobilization we're going to need if we want to fix a health care system that's broken, if we want to make sure every child gets a decent education and can afford to go to college. That's what we're going to need if we want to bring an end to a war that should have never been authorized."
"That's what we're going to need to meet the energy challenges of the future and make sure we don't melt the polar ice caps and destroy the climate of the planet."
"That's what we're going to need to deal with not only terrorism, but poverty and chaos in places like sub-Saharan Africa that breed terrorism."
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