Race for '08

OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 3) concludes our trilogy featuring Obama's rousing event that energized the town of Eugene, Oregon as well as the University of Oregon, and packed McArthur Court to overflowing on March 21, 2008.

• Part One here.
• Part Two
• The Making Of narrative

The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, Nezua.

Clicking the picture above will take you to the video page.

BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene.

The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at the last moment from a ballroom at the EMU that had a capacity of 700, I believe, to an outside courtyard which wasn't quite full. I asked Hillary's press liaison what necessitated the change, and she told me that there were more people in line than would fit in the rather small ballroom. The switch was after the security sweep was done and everyone's credentials checked and everything locked down. Because of the last minute move, the lighting and sound and security went from controlled and having a feeling of being well-organized to an "on-the-fly" and very thrown together situation, in some ways quite lacking. But nothing that prevented us from doing our jobs.

I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy. It oughtta be at least a little fun for political junkies as well as Eugene fans, as well as for camera/editing hobbyists and pros, iPhone owners, and sandwich lovers.

Crossposted to The Unapologetic Mexican and OpEdNews.