I was at the Obama-Biden rally in Dublin, Ohio today. [View All]

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It was incredible. A beautiful crowd and a beautiful day.

The speakers were all very good. Senator Sherrod Brown, Governor Ted Strickland, former Senator John Glenn and of course Senators Biden and Senator Obama.

The speeches were good. A lot of stump speech stuff and things we heard at the convention. Sherrod was especially good. I did really want to share a story with you tho that touched my heart.

I was quite a ways away from the stage - at an angle along the barricade fence thing (a couple of people back). During Barack's speech, I saw two black women come up toward us. One elderly lady in a wheel chair and a younger woman, probably her daughter or granddaughter. They stopped about 3 people away from me. The younger one asked the lady in the wheel chair if she could see anything. She replied (in the sweetest, gentlest, little old lady voice) "No, but I don't think we can get any closer. I don't need to see him tho. I can hear him". Then she smiled.

I tapped the shoulder of the guy in front of me and asked him to move back a bit. He did. The lady got a little closer. Then another person moved. then a lady that was standing at the barricade (a middle-aged, tiny white woman of about 85 lbs.) saw her trying to get through, moved back, grabbed the wheel chair and positioned her so that she had the best view possible in that location. The younger woman with the lady in the wheel chair thanked her. The lady by the fence put her hand on the back on the younger woman. Kind of an unspoken, you're welcome. The younger lady seemed to have a tear in her eye. She just stood by her mom or grandma and lovingly stroked her gray hair that was neatly pulled back into a bun.

I was just so touched at that moment. It was like the little group of about 5 strangers that saw her in the wheel chair thought the same thing. We wanted her to be able to see him. Not just hear him. We wanted her to be able to see him.

Okay.... one more touching moment. As we left, we were blocked by secret service until the motorcade left. We probably waited a good 45 minutes. A friend and I witnessed a little elderly, white couple walking out of the stadium. They were at least in their mid-80s. She was walking with a cane. He was holding onto her arm, trying to help her, while we could see he was bent over and not handling the walk very well himself. She kept having to stop about every 4 or 5 steps. She waited by a tree while he walked up to the barricades to see what was going on. We were blocked from them by a row of bushes - but I kept looking back toward them, b/c I was hoping I could find a place for them to sit and try to find a way over to them. I looked back again, and there was a young black man with a chair, helping the lady to sit down in it. I just smiled.

I know random acts of kindness happen all the time, everywhere. These two little event just happened so quickly and like people were just thinking the same thing.

It was a great day.