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Oct 15, 2008, 11:20AM

Great Schlep Great Success?

If you haven't seen Sarah Silverman's hilarious "Great Schlep" movement, you need to. And then you need to read this. Good thing for both are after the jump.


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo

Very funny stuff, Ms. Silverman.

And the reaction" Per CNN:

The next surprise was that his schlep had generated interest around their retirement community. A lot of interest. So many other seniors wanted to hear about Obama that the venue for a meeting on the subject had to be changed from the Furst's living room to a ballroom in the community's clubhouse.

An hour before Bender started to make his case about Obama on Sunday, groups of senior citizens were staking out space in the ballroom. Soon there were more than 100 people and no more chairs.

Sporting an Obama T-shirt with Hebrew writing on it, retiree Morty Brill said, "The economy, the war, you think you can trust Republicans to fix them?"

If there were any people in the room with reservations about Barack Obama, they kept those doubts to themselves.

As Bender told the crowd that Obama was not a Muslim and that Obama was a staunch supporter of Israel, he was met with heads nodding in agreement throughout the room.

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