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Just As Anti-Bush As Pro-Obama

Posted May 21, 2008 by The Tampa Tribune

Updated May 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM

News Channel 8’s Keith Cate was talking with people in the crowd as mic checks got under way on stage.

He was struck by what people here didn’t like as well as what they did.

“I feel there’s a very anti-Republican establishment feel to the room,” Cate said. “I talked to a woman about what she hopes to hear Obama say today, and she said, ‘He could sing nursery rhymes and it would be better than [what] we’ve gotten from the last eight years of Republican administration.’ ”

“Obviously this crowd is for Obama. But just as noticeable is the strong anti-Bush sentiment.”


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