You can see it in their flushed-face smiles and hear it in their screams. They say the phenomenon is difficult to describe, but once they experience it they tell their friends, sisters, mothers and daughters, and they come back for more if they can.

“He’s very charismatic. It was a ‘you-had-to-be-there’ kind of experience,” said Lolita Breckenridge, 37, after hearing Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama address a packed rally at the University of Maryland on Monday.

A dedicated supporter, she brought two of her friends to hear the Illinois senator deliver one of his much-talked-about speeches.

“Not too much of the speech was new to me,” she admitted. “But hearing him live…” she trailed off, shaking her head and grinning.

…He did not flinch when women screamed as he was in mid-sentence, and even broke off once to answer a female’s cry of “I love you Obama!” with a reassuring: “I love you back.”

…For student Rachel Niederer, 21, it was Obama’s way with words that swayed her to his side.

“I love listening to his speeches,” she said.

…Retired Washington native Marty Lallis, 61, said Obama reminded her of Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968, five years after his brother and the same year as Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was gunned down.

“I was just as excited by Robert F Kennedy when I was a teenager. I feel the same excitement for Obama. Maybe a little bit more because I am more mature,” she said.

“Every time I hear him speak I become more hopeful and more sure that he would be the best president we could have,” she said. “He makes you feel like he’s talking to you especially.” (news24.com)

This is exactly why many women (and men) should not be allowed to vote: They have absolutely no intelligent grasp of the political issues.

Then, over the screaming women a tinny voice bull-horned and parted the estrogen incensed mob and the Right Reverend Al Sharpton came along in full pimp gait, girth and hypocrisy blaring out a catchy children’s dope smoking Sixties tune, Barack the Magic Negro: