Post by scorpion42 on Feb 11, 2009 18:34:31 GMT -7
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Here's another story I found....
Fort Myers Miracle hire Edison State student who impressed Obama
By Tom Hayden • thayden@news-press.com • February 10, 2009
He jumped up and down on his chair. He shouted to the president for a chance to ask a question.
From the time he asked President Barack Obama the final question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Julio Osegueda rocketed from a Cape Coral teenager who flips burgers at a local McDonald’s to a popular face on many national television shows.
He also picked up another job — if just for a day — as the color announcer for the Fort Myers Miracle baseball team’s radio broadcast for its home opener on April 10.
“I was totally shocked,” said the 19-year-old Cape Coral resident who has worked at McDonald’s on Cape Coral Parkway for four and half years about his moment with Obama. “I had a chance to ask the President of the United States a question and he gave me such a motivational answer.
“It was like having the winning lottery ticket. I don’t think I will have another day this good.”
Osegueda’s dream moment almost never happened. He was one of hundreds who waited overnight in line at the Harborside Event Center. He said he received the last pair of tickets and considered selling them.
He walked into the center Tuesday with hundreds of supporters, took his seat and waited for Obama. Then, he went crazy.
“I jumped up on my chair, screamed my lungs out and shouted ‘your the man, pick me, pick me. I felt good,” Osegueda said.
Then, Obama changed his life. “Thank you Lord Jesus,” he said he shouted as he stood face to face with the president.
Osegueda asked the president if he could receive better benefits.
“No. 1, the fact that you are working, as hard as you’re working, at a job that I know that doesn’t always pay as well as some other jobs?” Obama told him. “I think that’s a source of pride for you.”
“He gave me such a motivational answer,” the communications major at Edison State College said. “I definitely, at first, had a lot of negative thoughts going into the future, but hearing from the president myself, I am not going to stop what I am doing.”
Osegueda voted for the President Obama last November. It was the 2008 Cape High graduate’s first election.
“This is the greatest time of my life,” he said. “He picked me in person. I have never felt this good except maybe when I got my Playstation3 for Christmas.
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“I was the last one to get tickets and the last one to interview the president.”
Then came his interviews with CNN and other TV stations. He also was scheduled to appear on more national shows Tuesday night.
“I couldn’t believe it,” his mother, Sarah, said about her son’s brush with the president. “He worked really hard at that. He is like that, he doesn’t any plan, he just does it. It is a dream come true for him.”
The job offer from the Miracle followed the media blitz. The one-day gig typically pays $25, but the Miracle said the salary is negotiable.
“But after stealing the show on Tuesday afternoon, will Miracle fans be ready for this latest YouTube sensation,” the Miracle said in a press release Tuesday.
Osegueda, who was born in Manhattan but has lived in Cape Coral 10 years, said he doesn’t watch much baseball but is a Yankees and has a Don Mattingly jersey.
"I’ll be ready,” he said about his broadcasting debut.
For now, he will continue to work at McDonald’s along Cape Coral Parkway. He’ll drive there in a 1993 Toyota Camry with 232,000 -plus miles on it.
He said his hours have been cut to about 20 a week because of the economy. He makes $7.85 a hour, receiving a 10-cent raise late last year.
He took Tuesday off.
Osegueda, who hopes to graduate from Edison in 2012 and land a job as a disc jockey or broadcaster, said his phone has not stopped ringing since he asked the president the last question.
“I don’t think there is much that is going to top this,” he said about his dream day. “That was awesome. Everybody in my family is rejoicing.”
content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62687523/1?se=yahoorefer
Here's another story I found....
Fort Myers Miracle hire Edison State student who impressed Obama
By Tom Hayden • thayden@news-press.com • February 10, 2009
He jumped up and down on his chair. He shouted to the president for a chance to ask a question.
From the time he asked President Barack Obama the final question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Julio Osegueda rocketed from a Cape Coral teenager who flips burgers at a local McDonald’s to a popular face on many national television shows.
He also picked up another job — if just for a day — as the color announcer for the Fort Myers Miracle baseball team’s radio broadcast for its home opener on April 10.
“I was totally shocked,” said the 19-year-old Cape Coral resident who has worked at McDonald’s on Cape Coral Parkway for four and half years about his moment with Obama. “I had a chance to ask the President of the United States a question and he gave me such a motivational answer.
“It was like having the winning lottery ticket. I don’t think I will have another day this good.”
Osegueda’s dream moment almost never happened. He was one of hundreds who waited overnight in line at the Harborside Event Center. He said he received the last pair of tickets and considered selling them.
He walked into the center Tuesday with hundreds of supporters, took his seat and waited for Obama. Then, he went crazy.
“I jumped up on my chair, screamed my lungs out and shouted ‘your the man, pick me, pick me. I felt good,” Osegueda said.
Then, Obama changed his life. “Thank you Lord Jesus,” he said he shouted as he stood face to face with the president.
Osegueda asked the president if he could receive better benefits.
“No. 1, the fact that you are working, as hard as you’re working, at a job that I know that doesn’t always pay as well as some other jobs?” Obama told him. “I think that’s a source of pride for you.”
“He gave me such a motivational answer,” the communications major at Edison State College said. “I definitely, at first, had a lot of negative thoughts going into the future, but hearing from the president myself, I am not going to stop what I am doing.”
Osegueda voted for the President Obama last November. It was the 2008 Cape High graduate’s first election.
“This is the greatest time of my life,” he said. “He picked me in person. I have never felt this good except maybe when I got my Playstation3 for Christmas.
Advertisement
“I was the last one to get tickets and the last one to interview the president.”
Then came his interviews with CNN and other TV stations. He also was scheduled to appear on more national shows Tuesday night.
“I couldn’t believe it,” his mother, Sarah, said about her son’s brush with the president. “He worked really hard at that. He is like that, he doesn’t any plan, he just does it. It is a dream come true for him.”
The job offer from the Miracle followed the media blitz. The one-day gig typically pays $25, but the Miracle said the salary is negotiable.
“But after stealing the show on Tuesday afternoon, will Miracle fans be ready for this latest YouTube sensation,” the Miracle said in a press release Tuesday.
Osegueda, who was born in Manhattan but has lived in Cape Coral 10 years, said he doesn’t watch much baseball but is a Yankees and has a Don Mattingly jersey.
"I’ll be ready,” he said about his broadcasting debut.
For now, he will continue to work at McDonald’s along Cape Coral Parkway. He’ll drive there in a 1993 Toyota Camry with 232,000 -plus miles on it.
He said his hours have been cut to about 20 a week because of the economy. He makes $7.85 a hour, receiving a 10-cent raise late last year.
He took Tuesday off.
Osegueda, who hopes to graduate from Edison in 2012 and land a job as a disc jockey or broadcaster, said his phone has not stopped ringing since he asked the president the last question.
“I don’t think there is much that is going to top this,” he said about his dream day. “That was awesome. Everybody in my family is rejoicing.”