29/02/2016 Monday
With Super Tuesday coming up tomorrow Bill Clinton was campaigning today in San Antonio for Hilary. Andy, Mary Lyn, AJ and I headed to the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater in the hope of getting in to hear Bill speak. The doors to venue closed in front of us so we sat in a small patio area and listened to the speeches along with about 50 others. We got glimpses of Bill coming and then leaving as well as some of the atmosphere. Outside the ‘craic was mighty’!
Here is Clinton’s speech recorded on my mobile phone. Bill starts about 11:20 in. There is plenty of background street noise and comments from the crowd round where we were sitting:
Earlier in the day we had an interesting discussion with an African-American colleague who declared himself a signed up Republican. He was very disappointed at the tone of the Republican campaign at the moment and bemoaned the lack of serious debate about policies. When asked if he could see himself voting Democratic it was clear his loyalty was with the Republican party but he would wait and see how things would turn out in the summer.