Clinton, Obama Visit Seattle
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both paid visits to Seattle to drum up support for the caucuses on Saturday.
Clinton promoted her vision of mandatory universal health care.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton jabbed at President Bush and issued a detailed call for universal health care Thursday night as she sought to draw distinctions between herself and Sen. Barack Obama, her Democratic rival.
She told an enthusiastic crowd of thousands in Seattle that if they believed like she did and wanted mandated health care for everyone, “I’m the only candidate on either side that you should come out and support on Saturday.”
I guess she sees herself as the one, true candidate just like religious people view their God as the one, true God.
Having watched Julian Schnabel’s remarkable film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly last night, I’m more sensitive than usual to the possibility of being trapped into a health care environment that I don’t want and can’t control.
Obama’s rally drew a crowd about four times the size of Clinton’s. It sounds like a revival meeting that bordered on a riot.
Officials closed the entrances to KeyArena at about 11 this morning, turning away thousands who had gathered to hear presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak at noon.
Doors were locked after KeyArena reached its capacity of about 20,000, officials said. Those who made it inside were not allowed to leave because police wanted to keep those outside from pushing through the doors and forcing themselves in. People outside were banging on glass doors and windows of the arena, as police were trying to maintain peace.
Police sent officers outside into the crowd to push people away from the doors so that no one would get crushed or trampled.
Kathryn Hughes, a senior at Gig Harbor High School, got inside while her friend Hunter Burton, also a Gig Harbor senior, was outside, pressed against a KeyArena glass door.
Burton said he was “furious beyond words. Democracy should not be limited by a stadium’s capacity.”
In addition, Gov. Christine Gregoire endorsed Sen. Obama.
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