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Brown Students For Obama Bulk-Buy Kool-Aid, Plan Summer Trip to Grand Canyon

Published Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

With his liberal policies and message of change, it is unsurprising that Senator Barack Obama has experienced unprecedented popularity among college students. However, a handful of Brown students have taken their advocacy of the Senator to the next level. Some members of Brown Students for Barack Obama have taken to keeping small shrines to the Senator in their dorm rooms, constantly quoting "Barack" in conversations unrelated to politics, and shivering violently whenever anyone refers to "Hillary Clinton" rather than "She Who Must Not Be Named."

The group began with more conventional methods of political activism, such as holding signs on Thayer Street encouraging passing cars to "Honk for Obama!" "Sure, the sign-holding worked for a while," said club member Dennis Park '10. "But we needed to really open people's eyes all the way to Obama's message of peace and cooperation--so we started throwing eggs at the cars that didn't honk. But that still wasn't enough."
To take their support even further, group members plan to embark in June on a cross-country road trip, knocking on doors for the Senator until they reach Arizona. There, they will drink a deadly mixture known as the Obamopolitan (so named for the red hue derived from its chief ingredient, Tropical Punch Kool-Aid) before plunging themselves into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

When asked about the motivation for this trip, club president Rick Forrester '08 stated that it was "perfectly clear. Barack told us to take change into our own hands, so we are going to make the biggest change possible. Barack says we're not really going to die, we're going to transcend the party boundaries of life and death in the ultimate reach across the aisle."

"Plus, the Obamopolitan is going to be delicious," Forrester added. "It's made with Tropical Punch flavor because Barack is from Hawaii. We know he would love that."

Some students said they found the group's methods disconcerting. "They're just being ridiculous and completely over-the-top," said Eric Marks '09, president of Students for Hillary. "And I know what you're thinking, and no, I am not jealous of them at all. Hillary is still totally in this race, okay? Geez! Get off my back!" Marks could not be reached for further comment.

For the most part, however, Obama supporters seem to be immune to outside judgment. "Yesterday my sister told me we couldn't possibly be serious about this summer trip," said Forrester. "I looked her straight in the eye and uttered the three holy syllables, as passed down to me by Barack himself: 'Yes. We. Can.'"

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