Obama Grilling General Petraeus

A select portion of Barack Obama grilling General Petraeus on the Hill this week.


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Obama in the Hoosier State

Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of more than 3,000 this evening in a town hall meeting at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN. The visit was announced Tuesday and the campaign distributed tickets yesterday in downtown Lafayette and at the Village Coffee House on the Purdue University campus. Voters lined up for hours at both locations and the free tickets were gone in minutes.



After a year of blogging on behalf of Obama, this was the first time I'd been able to see him in person. I was worried at first, considering my teaching obligations at Purdue kept me from lining up for tickets, but thankfully, the Obama staff in Lafayette were kind enough to set aside a pair of tickets for this friendly blogger.
Hundreds lined up early this evening, waiting in the rain for law enforcement to prepare the gym for the crowd. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the air, of history in the making. As we waited for Obama to take the stage, children were at play in the balcony above the court, and I couldn't help but feel thankful that their parents wanted them to be witness to this historic campaign.
Obama began with a 30 minute address concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the state of the economy, free trade, education, and other issues, drawing, at my count, twelve standing ovations. He then opened the floor to the crowd, fielding questions about education, health care, and the environment.


At one point, Obama took a question from a 9-year-old girl who asked if he would put an end to all the state testing she had to do in school. Obama agreed with the child that the U.S. education system could use an overhaul, much to the satisfaction of the youngster.

I'll post video as soon as it becomes available. Suffice it to say that the room was full of ordinary Americans who have endured seven years of tough times, and yet all looked forward with hope to the possibilities of the Obama administration.


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Obama to receive Phila. endorsements today

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

By Marcia Gelbart

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A bevy of city and state elected officials - specifically, six City Councilmembers, three state represenatives and two state senators - are expected to endorse Barack Obama for president at 2 p.m. today in City Hall.

"In addition to voicing support for their preferred Democratic candidate, this endorsement event is meant to balance the endorsements of other political leaders in the city and state, including Mayor Nutter and Governor Rendell," stated a press release announcing the event.

Nutter and Rendell are backing Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

The Council members who will announce their support of Obama today are: Curtis Jones, Bill Green, Jannie Blackwell, Donna Reed-Miller, Jim Kenney and Wilson Goode, Jr.

Among the Pennsylvania lawmakers will be state senators Shirley Kitchen and Vincent Hughes, and state representatives Jewell Williams, Harold James and Tony Payton Jr.

"In Pennsylvania, we realize that top party officials are not with us as it relates to Senator Obama's candidacy," Jones said, "but there are three words that were born in Philadelphia and still resonate across the Commonwealth today, and they are 'We the People.'"

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