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By kowalski Posted in 2008 — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Tonight I'm clicking through and reading about a half-dozen pages on the Internet and one of them was the story about the woman who inadvertently showed up for an Obama rally and after being jilted, ran smack dab into Hillary Clinton: [h/t: Drudge]

Disappointed, she decided instead to go for breakfast - and walked right into Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop.

"Oh, I didn't want to do this," Smith said, embarrassed, wearing an Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. "I didn't know she was going to be here."

How embarrassing. Speaking for myself, running into Hillary Clinton when you don't expect to is enough to spoil practically anyone's breakfast. But I guess these are the kinds of revolting things that happen when you have competition. However, what was more interesting to me was the fact that this woman ran into Hillary because she apparently couldn't get tickets to an Obamarama Concert, and there were no scalpers:

Advance seats were sold out, she said, and the only option was to stand in line for up two hours or more and hope for the best.

Has anyone been to an Obama concert ticket sale recently? Because I remember that a great deal was made in the MSM about our current administration's selection criteria at rallies and campaign events -- and almost all of the commentary was negative. And here, on the other side of the Big Ditch we have a woman in an Obama t-shirt who was obviously surprised to have to do her planned meet and greet with her favored candidate's nemesis.

So did this woman miss getting into the Obama Arena because there were too few tickets, or because they stopped printing tickets, or was it because the Obama campaign is screening their visitors and artificially restricting the participants...so that everything looks great for the cameras?

I think it's an important question given one of the recent front-page blogs here at RedState showing the very careful stage management Barack seems to be practicing at some of his rallies.

Can anyone just walk up and get a ticket to attend an Obama rally? Some of the photographs we've seen recently tell me that the Obama campaign certainly shouldn't be excluding anyone who wants to hang out. So the big question is: why was this woman excluded? Has the attendance at Obama rallies begun to exhaust the seating capacity of the venue? Or is it that the seating capacity is being planned to coincide with the camera angles?