Crystal is one of the 20,000 or so squeezed into a rally Wednesday night in Sunrise, where Obama filmed a live shot for his prime time infomercial. Asked why she wants to see Obama enough to stand in this four-to-eight-hour line, her pageant skills shine through. Hes been at the bottom and hes come this far. And now that our economy is facing this crisis he wants to help bring us up, she says, with perfectly punctuated diction. He wants to help us, where I think McCain is into helping the people in government.
This week in school, her class held a mock-presidential debate, which Crystal says got pretty crazy. Her class had three undecided voters. She blames the most dastardly of bedfellows: under education and misinformation. It seems that the fence-sitters kinda like Obama as a person, but have some ideological differences: They think hes for gay marriage and for abortions. She makes light by shrugging the memory away and surmises that itll all work out eventually. They dont really have to know what they think just yet. Theyre still kids.
Then there's Prince Thompson, who's selling CDs. If you ask him, its really a Good Samaritan effort. You see, he wrote this reggae jam called Obama Now, its a funnily impassioned song that includes Oprah in a list of Obamas strengths and also the line It takes an O to catch an O, send Obama after Osama but Ill be darned if it doesnt make your knees bounce. So here he sits in a hatchback with the windows down, the trunk up, and taped on Obama yard signs covering the sides. It seems to have a calming effect on Angry Line, as they enter the musics audible range they become collectively sedated; the whole chunk of them bobs gently up and down.
For Prince, the song was a response. I wrote it in December. This guy on Fox news was talkin about how [Obamas] never done anything. First of all, if youve become a lawyer youve done something. And he was the first black man ever to be president of the Harvard Law Review, and he graduated from Harvard and Columbia. What does he mean hes never done anything? If youre going to write that off, then I guess Harvard and Columbia arent good enough for a President?
This isnt the Princes debut in music; he sang a little song called Kinky Reggae with Bob Marley back in the day. Since then hes played with some Whalers, Shaggy, and dozens of others he ticks off through his missing front teeth. But for the moment hes exactly where he wants to be; sitting in his car, selling his CDs, and telling Fox News in this video clip, however kindly, to shove it.
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