If you have spare tickets you're looking to sell for Sen. Barack Obama's book tour stop next week in Seattle next week, Zee Triplett is hoping you find her ad seeking them on Craigslist.No word yet if the Seattle stop of the Obama tour will explain to "progressives" on why Obama doesn't send his kids to public schools.
Because in Seattle Obama is a sellout. Triplett, 26, had called to get tickets just minutes after they went on sale for the senator's scheduled appearance at the 2,500-seat Benaroya Hall. But the tickets for the Illinois Democrat's visit, part of his book tour to promote "The Audacity of Hope," were all gone within minutes. The same for scheduled events in Boston and Philadelphia.
The faithful are turning to Craigslist where they are offering up to $50 apiece for an Obama ticket. And a seller on eBay advertised a ticket to hear Obama speak for $125.
Obama may be in the vanguard of a new trend in American politics, a new sort of "primary" where political futures will be judged not just on how well politicians do in retail politics, but how the emerging social networking and community building Internet sites respond to them.
Triplett, an adult education specialist at a community college and Democrat, won't be deterred if she doesn't get a ticket through her Craigslist ad.
"We're probably just going to have a group of us just go down and crash it just to say we went," she said. "We all purchased the book together. We're reading it together. We all watched his Oprah episode together and we watched Larry King last night together.
"Just among my circle, he's just the talk at Starbucks," said Triplett who says Obama should definitely run for president. "He's human. He's a family man. He doesn't use the huge words and the jargon."
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Obama's the ticket on Web sites
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