Enthusiastic Reception

In 2008, Barack Obama had just finished speaking to a crowd of supporters who had traveled from miles around to greet his campaign train and listen to the impassioned speech he delivered at the railroad depot in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. 

Then, as reported by John Dickerson for Slate magazine, “a 12-year-old girl, Kabira Arnold, ran from the crowd that swarmed around Obama after the speech and screamed, ‘He hugged me.’ Her friends collapsed around her as she twirled and danced. After the hug, she told Obama, ‘You are the best person ever.’”

Source: John Dickerson, “Barack Track: Riding the Rails with Sen. Obama in Pennsylvania,” Slate, April 19, 2008