I gave it my best shot at the Obama rally Friday night, but in the end my video of the person fainting at the BO rally was very, very short.
However, I’ve found video from YouTube that someone took while at the rally which clearly shows the whole incident. In fact, whoever took the video obviously recorded the whole rally, because it’s the 4th of 6th videos they have posted about it. The person who got this all on tape was on the other side of the arena and had a much better view of the rally than I had. The fainting moment starts at about the 1:53 mark in the vid:
Very similar to the rest of the incidents, as you’ll note by reviewing some of the others here.
In related news, Don Surber writes about some recent comments Michelle Obama made to an audience in Durham, NC about how her husband was angry and frustrated about the lengthiness of the campaign and the attacks on his character, but at the same saying he wouldn’t let either get in the way of his “ultiimate goal.” To that, Surber responds:
If Obama is as his wife says he is — impatient and angry — then he is far younger than his 46 years would indicate. And that presents a problem for the nation. Youth has many things to offer. Sound judgment and patience are not among them.
Amen to that.
Well, it’s certainly understandable that Obama would be bitter and that he’d cling to a discredited ideology.
Comment by Steve Skubinna @ 5/4/2008 - 11:49 am
I have a much better video of the fainting for Obama:
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Comment by Don Surber @ 5/4/2008 - 12:10 pm
Are we so sure that these people are not just passing out from sheer boredom? I started to nod off after a minute, forty five seconds, just listening to him drone on, waiting to get to the action!
Comment by Proof @ 5/4/2008 - 12:49 pm
Apparently, fainting is very common at these over exuberant rallies. I saw an article on this once… but it was too long ago to recall exactly when. It’s a famous evangelist show-trick that’s become more and more common in political rallies. Before the ‘main show’ goes on, you encourage a lot of singing & hollering. In a dense crowd this uses a tremendous amount of oxygen. The end result is that the crowd feels a little ‘high’ from oxygen deprivation, not unlike the feeling of high elevation.
This also has the unintended consequence of members ‘fainting’. Although evangelists used to use this to demonstrate individuals ‘taken by the power of the lord’.
Comment by alchemist @ 5/5/2008 - 1:47 pm
I am taken by the power of the Obamessiah. This is an obamanation.
I’ve looked my entire adult life to be taken care of by a father figure and Obama will be him !
Comment by Baklava @ 5/5/2008 - 1:53 pm
Whose your daddy Baklava
[chuckles]
Comment by sanity @ 5/5/2008 - 6:55 pm