Obama supporters piling into Delray Beach Tennis Center for post-debate rally
by Andrew Abramson | October 23rd, 2012
Obama rally in Delray
DELRAY BEACH — The 8,200-seat Delray Beach Tennis Center is filled to capacity as President Obama prepares for more than just a typical election rally.
The country will be listening to Obama’s speech this morning as he gives his first remarks following his performance at last night’s presidential debate at Lynn University. Most pundits and viewers gave Obama the victory over GOP nominee Mitt Romney last night.
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, the Republican-turned-independent, warmed up the president.
“Last night we saw what a commander-in-chief looks like,” Crist said.
Crist said he didn’t leave the Republican party “but it left me.”
“Romney would be a rubber stamp to the extreme agenda of the congressional (right),” Crist said. “He’s bowed down to the Republican extreme right-fringe and that’s just wrong. He’s being dishonest ’cause he knows the truth will cost him votes.”
U.S. Rep Ted Deutch, Congressional candidate Lois Frankel, State Attorney candidate Dave Aronberg, State Sen. Maria Sachs and State Rep. Mark Pafford are also in attendance.
“Our president is a strong commander-in-chief, a stronger leader and we must reelect him,” Deutch told the energetic crowd. “He’s led this country to 31 months of job creation creating over 5.2 million new American jobs.”
The Obama campaign is distributing a booklet called “The new economic patriotism: A plan for jobs and middle-class security” that features talking points from Obama about his plans for a second term.
Former Gov. Charlie Crist, the Republican-turned-independent who is backing Obama and attended last night’s debate, arrived more than two hours before Obama’s expected 10:15 a.m. speech.
Frankel, who was not at the debate last night, is also in attendance and said Obama was “terrific” at Lynn.
“He showed why he should be president,” Frankel said. “I feel safer with him.”
The Lynn debate focused on national security and foreign policy.
“I saw my son go to two wars and I want Barack Obama to be our president,” Frankel said. “I don’t want our mothers to send their kids to war.”
Scott Van Deuser, the Fort Piece pizza shop owner who became an instant celebrity when he picked up Obama during the president’s stop at his restaurant last month, is also in the house. Van Deuser received a big applause when he reenacted the photo shoot and Deutch off the ground.
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October 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 am
I believe that our President was outstanding last night, and know he is what we need to move forward. As a Micro business owner , I can see that our economy is recovering from it’s trickle down economic policies in place during the Republican’s time in charge.
I echo Lois Frankel’s comments about safety and “not sending more kids to war” , and let’s not forget the WAR created the largest part of our current deficit
If you are a woman and not supporting our President, I’m clueless to understand your thinking.
If you care about our envirnoment (and in Florida it’s huge!), you’d be shortsighted to support the Republican Party – which has just become too extreme of late.
Thank you to the Palm Beach Post for the terrific coverage of the election season, and all of our local issues. I consider The Post to be an important community resource.
I’m placing my ballot in todays’ post.
October 23rd, 2012 at 9:21 am
What is a Micro businesss owner?
Oh, that means you sell garbage on the internet.
How many employees do you supply healthcare for?
Oh, you don’t have any employees.
So, basically you only have to care about yourself, that’s what I thought.
October 23rd, 2012 at 9:41 am
THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHO WINS THE DEBATE. IT’S ABOUT AMERICAN WINNING THE VICTORY FROM ECONOMIC DISASTER!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:09 am
@so what…no, if robin only cared about herself, she would be a republican…..see the difference??
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:14 am
All the unemployed people that wonder around Delray Beach all day are filing in to hear more propaganda from the obnoxious in chief
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:15 am
It’s about the economy!
Americans will vote for their pocketbook.
Americans will vote for unity.
America can not lead from behind.
America needs a strong economy, Americans working, Americans prospering, Americans owning homes and businesses.
It’s the cutsey word bites, but the pocketbook.
Mitt Romney is THE right man at the right time.
1. proven leadership
2. first to implement healthcare for all
3. able to work with opposing party
4. acumen in business
NO to OWEbama $16 trillion
NO to high Unemployment
NO to dependency on foreign energy from unstable regions of the world
NO to high cost of fuel
NO to high cost of food
NO to devalued home
and NO to division in our America!
GO ROMNEY!
Will be voting early!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:16 am
I fell in love with Mr. Obama last night… he showed the entire country why he is an amazing leader and furthermore he exposed Romney as waffling “Yes” man. 4 MORE YEARS, 4 MORE YEARS!!! I am also so happy to see the right get punched in the face… this is our country, our America… it’s not their’s anymore.
TOWDAH Avinu Malkeinu!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:18 am
@stanley Weinberg,,,,,dam man take a chill pill and calm down, you treat Obama like a GOD he is dam politician telling you what you want to hear. What a sheep you are
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:22 am
give it rest you phony… OBAMA RULES AMERICA!!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:24 am
@ enough already. Whatever, He is our leader and he is a very special person… one that this country hasn’t seen in a very long time. We suffered many years with many tyranical Right wing nut jobs. Obama is real, and I love him… and you know what??? AMERICA does too. 4 MORE YEARS!!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:26 am
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March
17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears +
Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world’s largest private
employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and
keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are
Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur
at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.
You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground
work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run
Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats,
Republicans, EVERYONE!!
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a.. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234
years to get it right and it is broke.
b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to
get it right and it is broke.
c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it
right and it is broke.
d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it
right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to
“the poor” and they only want more.
e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44
years to get it right and they are broke.
f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get
it right and it is broke.
g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our
dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of
$24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get
it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
Folks, keep this circulating. It is very well stated. Maybe it will
end up in the e-mails of some of our “duly elected’ (they never read
anything) and their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.
AND
I know what’s wrong. We have lost our minds to “Political Correctness”
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone please tell me what the HELL’s wrong with all the people that
run this country!!!!!!
We’re “broke” & can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans,
Homeless etc.,???????????
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and
Turkey..And now Pakistan ……..previous home of bin Laden.
Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ receive no aid nor do
they get any breaks
AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children
going to bed hungry, elderly going without ‘needed’ meds, and mentally
ill without treatment -etc,etc.
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same support they give to
other countries. Sad isn’t it?
99% of people won’t have the guts to forward this.
I’m one of the 1% — I Just Did”
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:33 am
Whomeever you are please go back to aisle 9 and mop up the mess that was shipped directly from China.
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:34 am
Say bye-bye, Gallup poll Romney 52 obama 45, Rasussen poll Romney 50 obama 46, Romney 51 obama 45 in Florida . Market tanking another 200 today after dropping 200 plus on friday, but you won’t see any of this news in the palm beach post. Smart people are finally seeing thru the media b.s. and rhetoric. CNN reported last night the obama team has given up in Florida and moved most of their people to Ohio.
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:37 am
Obama is stooping to a ridiculous low… it’s very sad to see him play this silly dumb down card… guess he needs to play to his constiuents.
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:40 am
WE WILL FIGHT BY ALL MEANS NECCESARY… RIGHT WINGERS, TEA PARTY CLOWNS, BE PREPARED FOR A FIGHT… WE ARE JUICED, JACKED, AND JOUMPING WITH PASSION FOR AMERICA… WE WILL DELIVER… OBAMA WINS IN A LANDSLIDE… FORGET THE POLLS… IT’S OVER!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:44 am
I am going to say it now… OBAMA WINS FLORIDA, VIRGINA, AND OHIO… Stick a fork in that stiff, lilly white, right wing rich dude… It’s OVER!!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:47 am
I was going to vote for Ron Paul but after the research I conducted and after yesterday’s debate, i am voting for Obama. I do not agree with him on all issues but he is a much better candidate than Romney. I grappled with my Christian beliefs as well regarding Obama but Romney’s beliefs are far worse. Here are some articles which I found very informative:http://carm.org/comparison-between-christian-doctrine-and-mormon-doctrine and http://www.diffen.com/difference/Barack_Obama_vs_Mitt_Romney.
October 23rd, 2012 at 10:58 am
That seemed like a big bag of hot air… hope all of those that wasted a good day at work this morning and being stuck in traffic to get to hear that are happy with their decision. I watched it online… and my company or job didn’t suffer one bit!
October 23rd, 2012 at 11:45 am
OBAMA-nesia: 47 million Americans are living below the poverty line after four years of Obama-nomics. 47 million people!! (Source: U.S. Census)
October 23rd, 2012 at 11:50 am
I was there, the bleachers were filled 8200 people there. President Obama was awesome and the crowds went wild.
OBAMA 2012
October 23rd, 2012 at 11:52 am
BTW Tag Romney should be arrested for threatening to take a swing at Obama. Just goes to show you what a truely trashy family the Romney’s are.
October 23rd, 2012 at 11:56 am
Go Home Libs and drink some kool aid.,..Election is over! Romney Wins!
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 50% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 46%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:03 pm
I was there today and let me tell you something!!!
It was EN FUEGO!!!
We are FIRED UP and READY TO GO!
The Gallup poll (LOL) and the right wing swing state polls (Ras, Gravis, We Ask, Angus whatever lol)… Well they can kiss my arse, Obama and the Dems have CLEARLY captured the momentum in this race.
And frankly, Romney is UNACCEPTABLE as Commander In Chief. Unacceptable. Foreign policy is simply completely foreign to Mitt Romney. He HAS no real foreign policy! He is totally empty! Why on Earth would anyone want to vote for a leaderless foreign policy under the thumb of the same Neocons as Bush? You’d have to be NUTS. Do you Republicans have NO memory of the Bush Admin at all? We know you WANT to forget it, but how DARE you put out this empty suit with the exact same Neocon team and then whine when anyone mentions Bush?! Deal with it! America is NOT going back to Cowboy Diplomacy. Not now. Not EVER.
Mitt Romney couldn’t even bring himself to speak about our VETERANS in the debate last night. Just like he “oops forgot” to mention the Afghan War at his convention. FORGOT to mention this war we’ve been fighting for ELEVEN YEARS. Totally unacceptable!!!
President Obama has earned Four More Years and Florida is going to DELIVER its 29 electoral votes to the furthering of the American Dream, not a New Gilded Age under a crooked Bossman.
Go Obama! Go Dems!
GOTV Dems! Every single vote counts!
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:09 pm
RIGHT ON!!! GET OUT AND VOTE FELLOW DEMOCRATS-LET’S MAKE OUR STATE PROUD TO CAST OUR ELECTORAL VOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! LET’S ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND GET TO WORK!!! OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!!!!! VOTE! DON’T LET ANYONE INTIMIDATE YOU INTO NOT VOTING. IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU ARE FULFILLING SOMEONE ELSE’S AGENDA!!!!!!!!!!
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:25 pm
WTH are you saying? The Post Office is ‘broken’ because of the advent and international utilization of technology. People don’t need to ‘write letters’ any more. Using Wal-Mart as an example on which to run our country? I don’t know in which Wal-Mart you shop or are referring to (that most of the employees speak English) but EVERY Wal-Mart I’ve ever been to in Florida employs a majority of non-English speaking immigrants. Wal-Mart also sells Chinese made products in their stores, not everything they sell is “Made in America” as they claim.
If the U.S. would stop funding the introduction of Democracy in countries where we are not welcome nor wanted, our deficit would shrink considerably.
Obama didn’t have:
234 years to “fix” or break the Postal Service
74 years to make or break Social Security
71 years to “get Fannie Mae ‘right’”
45 years to erase poverty in the U.S.
44 years to get Medicaid & Medicare ‘right’
39 years to fix Freddie Mac
32 years to fix the Department of Energy
Those who live in poverty will STAY poor, hungry and jobless if the Republicans continue on the present course. We need to bring our troops, ambassadors, civilian contractors and other Americans home from the middle east and let them fight it out themselves. Use the military to address terrorist and other threats to our citizens and national security, but BRING OUR PEOPLE HOME!!
The country has to be run like a country and not a business. In business, someone stands to financially gain from policies and rules.
October 23rd, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Slow and steady wins the game. You have to spend money to make money. Great business’ were built on these practices so it’s amusing to hear people claim Obama is ruining America. We CANNOT TURN BACK NOW!
For me, this election is about EQUAL RIGHTS. How can we barge into another county and fight for their equal rights but then come home and deny equal rights to our own folks? Anyone who says gays can’t marry b/c it’s agaist the bible is trying to merge church and state. There is a reason they have to be separate. When we bring religion into politics, awful things like the Holocaust take place. Your religious view on abortion will not help or hurt America. Your religious view on EQUAL RIGHTS for gays will not hurt America. Obamacare, though not perfect, is a start and with a little tweaking, will be one of the best things to happen to all of us.
Romney was born rich. Does anyone understand what this means? He doesn’t know what it’s like to dump his life savings into a business and build from the ground up. It means he doesn’t care about investing in healthcare b/c he can afford the best care for his family and all of his freinds. He won’t care if public transportation funding is cut; he can afford to go anywhere he wants, by any means. Unless you are in the (stretch it to) top 5%, by voting Romney, you are essentially voting against your own best interest.
GOBAMA 2012
October 23rd, 2012 at 8:04 pm
I got to the rally site at 6:50 AM and found the line to get in extended nearly five blocks! Just thousand and thousands of people. These folks must have gotten there at 1 AM for a 10 AM presidential appearance or stayed on line all night to be up front. Enthusiasm gap in Palm Beach County? Not here there isn’t!
October 23rd, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Awesome rally!!!! I love our president <3
October 24th, 2012 at 1:12 am
Just to see a socialist prance around not my cup of tea. The world needs to watch Obama 2012 and decide for themselves what they think of the president.
October 27th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
This past week, Trump offered to give $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice if he releases his college and passport records. Obama responded by telling his own joke about him and Trump fighting while growing up in Kenya. http://www.bit.ly/WRFiT5