{"id":2135,"date":"2008-02-04T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2008-02-04T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T01:03:10","slug":"barack-obama-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2008\/02\/04\/barack-obama-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Barack Obama&#8217;s speech in St. Louis on Saturday night.\u00a0 I was among a numerous\u00a0other people attending &#8212; the press reported that about 20,000 people were present. To get into the arena, those attending had to follow the line for several blocks, leading up to the door.\u00a0 We walked past about a dozen sign-waving Ron Paul supporters on the way in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Political rallies are often of high energy and this was no exception.\u00a0 Obama appeared at 9:00 pm, as promised, and delivered a spirited one-hour speech.\u00a0 He is undoubtedly a talented orator.\u00a0\u00a0He is charismatic in a thoughtful way.\u00a0 In case you&#8217;re interested in his positions on the issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here is his website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried to take some photos at the gathering, but I was just too far away.\u00a0\u00a0 Luckily, a friend sent me an email with some photos his wife took.\u00a0 I thought that these were terrific photos, well worth sharing.\u00a0 She gave me permission to use these photos here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Without further ado, here are three photos from Barack Obama&#8217;s February 2, 2008 speech in St. Louis, Missouri:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2132\" style=\"width: 448px; height: 325px\" height=\"325\" alt=\"Obama - crowd.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Obama%20-%20crowd.jpg\" width=\"448\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2134\" style=\"width: 284px; height: 436px\" height=\"436\" alt=\"Obama talking.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Obama%20talking.JPG\" width=\"284\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2133\" style=\"width: 449px; height: 321px\" height=\"321\" alt=\"Obama meeting with folks after talk.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Obama%20meeting%20with%20folks%20after%20talk.JPG\" width=\"449\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended Barack Obama&#8217;s speech in St. Louis on Saturday night.\u00a0 I was among a numerous\u00a0other people attending &#8212; the press reported that about 20,000 people were present. To get into the arena, those attending had to follow the line for several blocks, leading up to the door.\u00a0 We walked past about a dozen sign-waving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[6450,1174,432,1175,6439,1176,1177,228],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-politics","tag-american-culture","tag-barack","tag-obama","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-rally","tag-speech","tag-st-louis","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}