Today in Philadephia Barack Obama described his vision for a more unified, and yet still diverse America, in his “A More Perfect Union” speech. The video and transcript below were provided by the Obama HQ site in Sam Graham-Felsen’s blog . Remarks as Prepared for Delivery… “We the people, in order to form a more [...]
Check out PocketNines diary on the Mississippi presidential primary results for a great summary of the delegate count and breakdown of the vote by county. Statewide Results – Obama 253,441, Clinton 154,842 Statewide Percentage – Obama 62.075%, Clinton 37.925% – so close. Delegate Split looks like – Obama 19, Clinton 14 Clinton super lucky, could [...]
I saw the wonderful PBS debut of “American Masters: Peter Seeger: The Power of Song” last night. If you like American folk music, and true American patriots, I highly recommend this show. If it weren’t for Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Woodie Guthrie, and the others that worked with them, we would have lost much American [...]
Obama Rally in Austin It was almost exactly one year ago on a cool, misty February afternoon that I first had the opportunity of seeing Barack Obama in person. There were over 20,000 of us there that day, and we were fired up and ready to go back then, but it wasn’t our time yet. [...]
Obama at Tulane Obama gave a wonderful speech today in New Orleans. He said so many of the things that I wanted to hear. Click here to read the entire speech that Barack Obama delivered at Tulane University today. Here are some excerpts: The Times-Picayune Thursday February 07, 2008, 10:03 AM Sen. Barack Obama’s prepared [...]