LATimes: Over 1000 people celebrated in front of WH last night

[sabra]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/11/obama-cheers.html

Did George W. Bush hear those cheers for Obama outside the White House last night?



Crowds gather in front of the White House in a spontaneous eruption of joy on election night 2008 after Democrat Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president in U.S. history

It was a spontaneous eruption of civic joy, an unrehearsed decision by more than 1,000 to gather in front of the White House last night to celebrate the historic election of Barack Obama, the nation's first black president.

Young people made up the majority of the crowd and there were lots of parents pushing strollers. One woman came from Virginia with her husband and three children, to share a rare moment of history. She told Voice of America:

I came to the White House because there was nowhere else I could be to celebrate this moment. We live 20 miles from here and we jumped in the car when {Obama clinched}. I just couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

Car horns blared. Secret Service agents, who in the last eight years have had to hold off crowds protesting the war in Iraq or the $700-billion bailout package, simply opened their cellphones and took photos. All the while, the crowd shouted, "Obama! Obama!" and "Yes we can! Yes we can!"

Inside, President Bush, who famously likes to be in bed by 10 a.m. and whose own popularity rating is at historic lows, must have marveled.

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. lol... Bush "must have marvelled"

I bet he was trying to get the SS to arrest everybody
:rofl:

[MidwestTransplant]

2. I hope they kept his ass awake

[yurbud]

3. that bald guy was taking a big risk. He could have been kidnapped to be Bush's new Gannon

[sabra]

4. maybe it was Sam aka Joe the non plumber?

[yurbud]

5. THAT'S why Joe the Plumber seemed so angry--Bush pitched some hardballs at him