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Santa stumps for Obama
Actress Kate Walsh was at least an hour late showing up at Waco’s Barack Obama headquarters this morning, but several of the almost two dozen folks willing to knock on doors for the candidate kept busy.
For instance, there was a big guy with a bushy white beard who went into a side room at Obama headquarters on Columbus Avenue and began making phone calls, trying to get people to both vote today, then caucus this evening.
Dan Short, 64, an Obama volunteer from Oklahoma City, says his stout appearance and white beard do break the ice with voters, even if they’re Republicans in the heart of “Bush Country” and not ordinarily inclined to vote for Democrats.
“It’s worked pretty good,” Short joked of his beard and appearance. “It warms them up.”
While waiting for Walsh to arrive and rally campaign volunteers for a day of canvassing neighborhoods, Short told a funny story about he and two other Obama volunteers standing out near a school, trying to get voters to consider Obama. At one point, he said, he had to take a restroom break and so secured permission to use the campus bathroom.
While in the stall, he heard two boys come in, arguing whether it was Barack Obama or Barack Osama.
In the thick of their sometimes heated argument, Short thundered from the stall in a deep voice: “IT’S OBAMA.”
Which, whatever else, settled the matter on that campus. Too bad most of those there couldn’t vote.
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