{"id":233,"date":"2008-04-18T23:08:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T23:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2008\/04\/18\/obama-rally-explains-birds-passion\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T23:08:01","slug":"obama-rally-explains-birds-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2008\/04\/18\/obama-rally-explains-birds-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Rally Explains Bird’s Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. \u2013 As mentioned in the previous entry during this trip to Philly, Jeremy Bird \u201900 puts in incredibly long days. He arrives at his office at about 8:30 a.m. and with Tuesday\u2019s Pennsylvania primary getting closer seldom leaves before 1 or 2 a.m.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s incredible to watch, not just because of the long hours but how each hour is jammed with detail, planning and management. I\u2019ve now asked him several different ways where he finds the energy and his answer is largely because he believes so much in the candidate.<\/p>\n

Friday night I got a first-hand taste of that. Bird is Field Director for Barack Obama in Pennsylvania and widely credited with a similar effort in South Carolina that helped turn the primary battle with Hillary Clinton in the Illinois senator\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

Bird will be one of many Wabash men featured in a fall issue of Wabash Magazine<\/em> with a theme of \u201cWabash Men in Politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremy arranged for me to have press credentials for Friday\u2019s Obama rally in Independence Park which sets between the National Constitution Center and Independence Hall in the city\u2019s oldest district.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>, one of the nation’s great newspapers, reported the crowd at 35,000 in Saturday’s edition.  The energy was off the charts. It was like a rock concert.<\/p>\n

At risk of being political I\u2019ll stop there! I have written more about the rally with a photo album on my personal blog. If interested, you can click here<\/strong><\/a>. Saturday morning update<\/em><\/span>: Knowing an insider helps! I accompanied Jeremy to the campaign headquarters and to the train station this morning where Obama was preparing for a day-long whistle stop tour. I’ve added another entry with photos. Just click the link above to go to both entries.<\/p>\n

Bird\u2019s not sure where he goes after Tuesday. There is something ironic about putting in such an intense and physically demanding effort and not knowing where you\u2019ll be just a few days later.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the world of politics, he said. He does it because he believes. Bird said he learned at Wabash that you can do whatever you want to do \u2013 and right now he wants to work in a fall national campaign for his candidate.<\/p>\n

– Howard W. Hewitt<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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