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Clinton shares the love at UCI

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With two weeks left before elections, Clinton’s visit to UCI creates great excitement.

With two weeks left before elections, Clinton's visit to UCI creates great excitement.

Over 5,000 students and community members stood in line outside UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center waiting to hear the former President Bill Clinton rally supporters. Lines began in the early afternoon with some people waited hours before the event began.

During the rally Clinton endorsed a number of Democratic Party candidates for seats in the House of Representatives including Julia Brownley, Alan Lowenthal, Scott Peters, Raul Ruiz, and Mark Takano. Missing on the agenda was local Mayor and candidate Sukhee Kang.

Clinton and the accompanying candidates, speaking to a college audience, mainly touched on issues pertaining to college tuition, diversity and equality, women’s rights, and immigration. Raul Ruiz states that the election is about “reviving the American Dream”.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, it’s pretty cool to have a President come speak at UC Irvine.

If you attended, feel free to share your thoughts below! And if you didn’t, we’d also like to hear what you have to say.

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  • Janedoe

    give me a better article. did you attend the event at all? if so did you pay attention to anything he said?

  • Johndoe

    very bland, content less article. all it does here is inform who. state a concrete why, how, and what. Bill Clinton is an intelligent man who possesses incredible weight in his words. Tie this into various themes and current events. Even past events. Either this severely censored or there are heavy censorship rules. Or it could be that the author himself did not put in the time nor research. I want to give the benefit of the doubt that there are still philosophical and intellectual writers out there still. And yes, I suspect this comment will be deleted by a moderator soon. But hey, to those who see this will agree that the article written is weak.

  • Rushmore

    How is the adjective “cool” in any sense a high regarded descriptive text that reflects the high academia standards this University seeks to embody? Are you serious? It is already implied. Every reader will of course already be enticed and have the thought of a previous President of the U.S. come speak as something noteworthy. Can you give me a “cool” and informative yet relative article? Not only does this article does not do the man any great justice but also neglects the content and reasons for his presence as well as the actors in the funding of the event. Tell me the purpose. Not your low valued intellectual description. 

    This article is something a high school, no, even a middle school student can come up with. 
    Also I can tell this article was rushed. In the journalism world you prepare multiple articles predicting the different outcomes and reactions by the audience at LEAST a day prior to the event. That way whatever actually happens, you alrady have a template with some content.  All you need to do is fill in some missing pieces. This is journalism 101. 

  • Amfuqzizz

    Honestly, that’s what I call a cool story bro. Such a riveting tale, I honestly copy and pasted it to word, saved on my hard drive, backed it up on a jump drive, drove to the bank, put the jump drive in the safe deposit box, and will leave it there until my kids turn about 12 (when they can actually state their age, and ask what it is I’m showing them), when I will pick it up, put it in an old USB drive reader and relay this cool story to them and tell them, “kids, this is what a cool story should look and sound like…not like the stories your generation tells.

  • Punctual

    Hey who here caught the mistake?

  • marketing guru

    Forget the article, you guys!  The point is the event, the event, the event!  I just hope that all those folks who waiting in line now turn around and actually VOTE!!  Your voices need to be heard, no matter which candidate you prefer (but I hope it’s Obama).  :)
     

  • Antimarketing

    @marketing guru you are low level intellect ignorant specimen. I can definitely tell you are the author. Way to be not obvious. If you wanted people to vote you should have brought upon the various propositions supported by Bill Clinton as well as the opposing oppositions to provide the audience a balanced view of the decisions that can be made.

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