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I’ve posted a compilation of some of the live blogs from last night’s Obama event at Tri-C over on The Silent Majority. My thanks to tablemates Anthony Fossacecca of Blue Ohioan and Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks for their camaraderie, to Jerid Kurtz of Buckeye State Blog and Jason Haas of Psychobilly Democrat who were there but we didn’t connect and to George Nemeth at Brewed Fresh Daily for his offsite metablogging and support wonking.

Also a huge thank you to Sarah Leonard at The Strategy Group for accomodating us with credentials and a great vantage point from which to work. I only hope that the other campaigns will have the foresight to follow her lead.

The credit for this photo goes to Kyle AT The Chief Source (check out the great other shots he’s got!).

The event is pretty well described in posts on all of the aforementioned sites and I think that the TSM piece does a good job of delivering the event’s flavor. For a summarized version check out George’s play-by-play which I like because of the following line:

“@6:35PM GN crack a dortmunder.”

- dude if you only knew how hot it was in there, I so could have used a cold one!

I know that today Anthony is knocking around with getting his videos posted - I pulled one from YouTube for the wr.com front page. I’ve been surfing around looking for the best event recaps and these are my favorites:

• JMZ in this post at WLST because she also writes like she thinks… and what she thinks scares the hell out of me, even if I share her concerns.
• Mark Naymik from the Plain Dealer in Cleveland.com’s Open blog because he obviously wasn’t at the same event I attended.

In the end, I think I was the only non-Democrat blogger, but I found it striking how almost all of the left leaning onliners are taking a wait and see approach with the senator from Illinois. Frankly I think that most Democrats are taking not only a wait and see approach with Obama but with their entire field. Everybody says the same thing - “it’s just too early”.

And I think they’re right.

But that shouldn’t dampen anyone’s spirits about last night’s event - the bar has now been set for the rest of the candidates and I pity the next one who comes to town unprepared to match what Obama laid out.