Obama Campaign Aide Collapses and Dies at Headquarters
BlackBlueDog.com Staff Writer
President Barack Obama took some time today to call the family of Alex Okrent, one of his campaign aides who died after collapsing suddenly at campaign headquarters. Okrent’s death was a surprise, and the president offered his most sincere condolences to the aide’s family in Chicago.
President Obama was in Virginia on a campaign stop when Okrent fell ill. Okrent worked in the president’s media department. He was a deputy field director in Cleveland during the president’s 2008 campaign, and also worked on President Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign.
Okrent received quite a few kind words on Twitter today after his untimely death.
“We will miss you, Alex. You left a beautiful legacy. We will never forget your spirit or your passion. Rest in peace, brother,” wrote Jeremy Bird, Obama’s National Field Director.
Even GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered his condolences for Obama’s fallen soldier.
“Ann & I were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Alex Okrent. Prayers are with Alex’s loved ones and the entire Obama campaign team,” Romney wrote on Twitter.
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I Am So Sorry To Read This. God Bless Alex Okrent Family & Friends.
So Sad;although, we pray for the family and the Obama team,how much a tragedy. Is the cause of his death for public knowledge. He is young.
Is the cause of his death, something that others need to be knowledgeable Heat Exhaustation, other complications, stress? May we all pray for this man and his family.
We need to pray for this nation, as this campaign is getting ugly!
Jessie Jr, recently becomes very ill and now this young man dies.
What is going on in D.C.?
I am just one citizen, but it seems that there is much stress in politics.
We need a national healing!
Maybe we are being told to start caring more for each other and the real issues of who leads this country.
President Obama, won many voters on His Change platform,well America needs change and hopefully, this young man did not die from stress.
My prayers are with each family,
It is terrible to read how people are turning natual citizenship into hatred, or has it been here all along.That is a statement that does not need an answer.
i read all of these comments and wonder, where is our country going?
We have the olympic stars now having to get new uniforms. How much is this costing the Olympic Officials. Did they not know , the uniforms were being made in China? We have so many items that are made in China.
Surely some American Co. could have made these uniforms.
Well, I am praying for the USA Olympic team, political candidates, their families and certainly for this young man and for Jessie Jackson Jr.
I believe God, is telling us something.
Why do the negatives continue to worry about President Obama’s upbringing. He is Black, African American, Pacific American, but he is the President of the United States of America.
You pray for everyone except the innocent black youths and their victims, who are dieing EVERY DAY in urban america by the hundreds and thousands. What was their sin? Was it their fault that no adult or govt agency protected them from adult criminals, who gave them guns and drugs to kill themselves and their community with????
I am TOTALLY praying for Alex Okrent’s Family & Friends!!! The other poster may, in fact, be right. Maybe there IS a message in this loss and tho other things going in in the nation’s capitol!
Maybe a national healing IS in order!
Blessings, also, to the POTUS as he grieves the loss of one of his key team members!
Rest in peace.
My condolences to the family. Politics is a “stressful, loveless” profession.
prayers
This was one of the young men who believed in Obama from the beginning and poured his heart into the man and the campaign. What kind of stress causes a 29 year old man to have a massive heart attack.Such a loss-
May God bless your family and what a beautiful smile you had.
The spirit is in the smile. I do not know you but I too want to
say Thank You Alex!
maybe obama will hire some strong capable unemployed black men to do that stressful work now, and pay them well.
Indeed.
My sincerest condolences to the family of Alex Okrent. He was young and bright and worked for a good cause. May his family find solace in the knowledge that many thousands share their loss. I pray for our divided nation and all the innocents who have been killed.
The page I’m sure is for prayers and condolences for this young man and his famil……For once have some decency and respect! GEEEEEEEESH!!A young man had passed away doing something he apparently had a passion for.ENOUGH SAID! All of our days are numbered, can we just accept it was his time to part this realm of life as we know it, And pray for strength for this family!!!!!
People still don’t get it.Must we always point fingers, and blame? Tragic as this was young mans passing is, some if you still have to be so d**n negative.My spouse passed away last year, avid golfer (which meant he walked a lot) Had just had a complete physical, yet he had a massive heart attack…..Ijs………Pray for this young mans d family.And stop trying to find fault and place blame JESUS!!!!!!!
As long as we have forensic science we will question, AS WE SHOULD want to know the cause of death. I thank God that Michael Jackson had an autopsy and that justice for him was won.