Obama's hug thrills teen (check this photo out)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10421624

Published Tuesday September 2, 2008
Obama's hug thrills teen
BY SUSAN SZALEWSKI
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

A nervous, star-struck Shelley Fort first was content with shaking Sen. Barack Obama's hand.

But the 19-year-old college student, who grew up in Kearney, Neb., knew she might not have another chance to meet a possible president. So she decided to go back and talk to the Democratic presidential nominee as his campaign stopped at a church-run produce stand in Marengo, Ohio.


Shelley Fort, who grew up in Kearney, Neb., gets a hug from Democratic nominee Barack Obama.


Fort briefly shared the difficulties of her life that she believed the senator would understand: trying to fit in as a person of mixed race, growing up in a single-parent household. The tearful teen got the candidate's attention, a hug and a few kind words.

She already was sold on the senator. Fort, who had worked phones and gone door to door for the Obama campaign, was on her way to one of his speeches in Dublin, Ohio, on Saturday.

The sophomore at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, also had been an Obama supporter and active in Democratic politics last year as a student at Bard College in New York.

Fort and another campaign volunteer were heading to the Dublin speech when they spotted a campaign bus and Secret Service agents hovering around Obama at Marengo, a town of about 300 north of Columbus, Ohio..

FULL story at link.

[Whalestoe]

1. I'd love to give Barack a hug and tell him, "Thank you." n/t

[AZBlue]

14. I would too, but I'd just start crying and make an idiot out of myself.

I can't help it, I'm just so proud of him and I'm so proud to be an American right now.

[roguevalley]

15. then I would say, 'don't forget us'. I know he won't. That is why I

love him.

[liberalmuse]

2. Well, that teared me up.

What a bittersweet story. I'll bet this is a day that girl will never forget.

[crim son]

3. I want a hug!

He makes me feel so hopeful...

[Cha]

4. That's so sweet..I was just thinking how Unreal it is

to have the candidate that I really wanted to be the one. He's an inspriration to anyone who doesn't believe the lies and has gotten to know him through his work.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. He's genuine - he's real - and so is his running mate.

There is something going on here with this guy.
Almost every day I read a story about him, or hear a clip of him speaking, and I get all emotional and my eyes well up.
Like with this story.

To a lesser degree, I get the same way with Biden, only in his case he gets me fired up and yelling YES! at my TV.
I watched him speak today about the Holocaust in Florida to a mostly senior Jewish audience.
They loved him.

WE MUST WIN THIS ELECTION!
THESE GUYS ARE THE REAL DEAL.

Obama hit 50% today with REGISTERED VOTERS!

[Tansy_Gold]

10. Okay, now I'm bawling

As a Hillary supporter now firmly in the Obama camp, I know how far into the soul it reaches to see someone "just like me" able to do literally anything, even maybe be president of the united states.

If I believed in a god, I'd surely be asking her right now to bless both of them.



Tansy Gold, just not able at the moment to get her head around the possibility that either of Those Other Two could ever understand what this photo means (and no, I don't look at SP and think she's "just like me." :puke: )

[givemebackmycountry]

17. Tansy Gold...

:pals: :patriot: :pals: :toast: :hug: :pals:

[Heather MC]

6. woo woo I am tearing up thinking about what this meant to her

My husband and I are a biracial Couple, and though we live in a very racially diverse area
I still wonder what challenges my boy will go through in life, and how will it effect them. I look at Barack and know my Kids can grow to be great men, and that's what I tell them daily.

[AspenRose]

8. Absolutely.

:hug:

[Omaha Steve]

11. My granddaughter Bobbi is bi-racial

1/4 Black, 1/16th Cherokee, the rest mostly European. But with blond hair and blue eyes, she won't have the trouble most bi-racial kids have.

[Heather MC]

13. My oldest looks like his father, When he was a baby I used to get asked

if I was the nanny, I would anwser that question by whipping out my left breast and start breast feeding
:rofl:
I miss that

[CherokeeDem]

7. I Have to Tell You....

after the devastation of losing the Gore campaign..or having it stolen, I have had such a fear of feeling hopeful again. This man, this wonderful candidate, has given me that hope back but the fear is still there. I am so scared and while I have complete faith in his victory, I can't shake the fear.

[seabeyond]

9. ahhhhhhh. you know what i love the most. first time ever the inclusiveness of the black

community in their politics. they have been so disfranchised and outside of the political arena, that it is so evident of the inclusive feel they have with obama running for pres. i love love love it and does my heart so good.

[catgirl]

12. K & R

[noiretextatique]

16. how sweet

it obviously meant the world to her.

[Erin Elizabeth]

18. Right there. One of the most substantial differences

between Obama and McCain: I have never seen McCain make anyone feel inspired, moved. Obama appeals to our better natures.

[Danascot]

19. We're going to have

a wonderful president!

[RollWithIt]

20. Beautiful....

In every way.