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Indiana Superdelegates

Indiana has 11 or 12 superdelegates but whose counting? me. So far Obama has one superdelegate from Indiana:

Cordelia Lewis-Burks, the vice chairwoman of the state Democratic party is a Obama supporter.

So far, five superdelegates are committed to Clinton, one is for Obama, and the rest are undeclared:

Bayh has endorses Clinton but will say flowery things about Obama to stay in good grace with the Democratic African-American voters in the great State of Indiana. And the African-Americans voters of Indiana will not demand more.sigh.

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh Endorses Clinton
Bayh Will Serve As National Campaign Co-Chair
The Clinton Campaign today announced the endorsement of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh and named him a national Campaign Co-Chair.

"Hillary Clinton is a seasoned, experienced leader who will be ready to lead this country on Day One," Bayh said. "She will run the kind of campaign and administration that will appeal to all corners of America, emphasizing national security and middle class economic progress."

Sens. Bayh and Clinton are members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and have traveled together to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and met with the Presidents of those countries.

First elected to the Senate in 1998, Sen. Bayh has earned a reputation as a bipartisan problem solver, committed to strengthening our national security, growing small businesses to create new jobs and encouraging responsible fatherhood.


Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker,Phoebe Crane, DNC Member
Bob Pastrick, DNC Member, Joe Andrews,

Indiana Democratic Leaders Endorse Clinton
The Clinton Campaign today announced the endorsements of Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker and 16 other leading party officials.

“Indiana is ready for change, and Hillary Clinton has the strength and experience to deliver it,” Parker said.

“Hillary is uniquely qualified to hit the ground running on her first day in office and begin tackling the challenges we face at home and abroad,” said Democratic National Committee Member Phoebe Crane.

“Hillary’s impressive record of working across the aisle to get things done is the kind of consensus-building leadership we need to provide quality, affordable health care for every American and move our nation towards energy independence,” said Democratic National Committee Member Bob Pastrick.

“I am grateful for the overwhelming support I’ve received in Indiana,” Clinton said. “With the help of these local leaders, we’ll take our message of change across the state and this nation.”

INDIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS ENDORSING HILLARY TODAY:


Dan Parker, Chairman, Indiana Democratic Party

Dora May Abel, Indiana Democratic Party Deputy Chair
Linda Buzinec, Indiana Democratic Party Treasurer
Butch Morgan, 2nd District Chair
Michelle Livinghouse, 2nd District Vice Chair
Steve Haines, 3rd District Chair
Marjorie Warnick, 3rd District Vice Chair
Jeff Fites, 4th District Chair
J.D. Lux, 5th District Chair
Jan Ellis, 5th District Vice Chair
Tom O’Donnell, 7th District Vice Chair
Anthony Long, 8th District Chair
Mary Lou Terrell, 8th District Vice Chair
Kevin Murray, Indiana Democratic Party Parliamentarian
Marty Titsworth Chandler, Indiana Democratic Party Legal Counsel

What matters-Candidate of the people-Obama08

Franz Fanon and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr wrote about the dilemma of having to choose whether one is black or just a citizen of your country. What does it matter your skin color? This age old question is relevant even today as Senator Barack Obama attempts to become President of the United States of America.


Photo: Gerald People

Critics wants to know, how say you Obama? Black, African, African-American, HalfAfrican, or bi-racial? The answer it seems will determine if Obama will get a nod from African-American voters or not. Earl Ofari Hutchinson writes

in the eyes of many blacks, Obama departs from past black presidential contenders such as Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Messrs. Jackson and Sharpton. They were readily identifiable, urban-bred, African-Americans who spoke out boldly on civil rights, poverty, and economic injustice. On the other hand, the racially mixed, Harvard-trained Obama, as the so-called postracial candidate, has soft-pedaled these issues. It's no accident that his appeal among whites seems stronger so far than among blacks.

Hutchinson, a darker hue African-American subtlely suggest that Obama is not a chocolate favored brother who understands what it means to live in a predominately African-American poor community. Obama has lived in a more isolated and protected world because of his raced white mother and grandparents and therefore he is unable to connect to the issues that are destroying black communities.

If true, Obama is not the first contender for Presidency that was of the fairer hue.
Colin Powell, the four star general, was thinking about running for President, and the color or race issue was not a big deal. Why? It's something about this first time out Senator Obama that has the well-established brothers in an uproar.

There is something beyond Obama blackness. Obama had no problem claiming backness.

Obama was not afraid of offending his mother from Kansas, when he identfied himself as being black. Unlike, Tiger Woods who was given the same question and decided to combine his father and mother ethnic background and not offend either parent. Nevertheless, America will still defined him black based on the fact that at least one of his parents was dark in complexion. So Obama claimed his blackness quickly.

Too quickly as he charmed America with blackness.

Obama has charmed raced whites folks, no protests, no marches, no dues paid.

It is that no dues paid by this educated, handsome charming Obama, that has old guard African-Americans in leadership in conference about Obama staying power among the powerbrokers. Obama is too young and the young die early in this game of dues paid. So, old guard leadership decides to hex Obama with the the Martin Luther King, Jr. hex.

Dr. King,Jr. like, Obama was deemed too young for a leadership role in taking his people to the promise land according to old guard ,established African-American leadership way of thinking. So, it is not his lack if blackness that will be their excuse for not supporting the well educated and handsome Obama. The brutal truth is that Obama is too new on the political scene, too untested, too politically nice, too liberal, and most of all, he's an African-American. To blacks even for the well-established old guards, Obama is too black to seriously have a real shot at the White House.

It's a nice way of saying, the old guard does not trust Obama. Pointing out his blackness, is a way of saying they don't believe Obama will stay true to the old guard way of being black by paying dues , keeping them around, if the people elect him to that seat. The old guard has no use for Obama because he is too black. It was Senator Joseph Biden who defined Obama blackness as non-traditional, by stating, he is storybook black. Not quite mainstream, but clean enough, not dirty black, but mixed with raced white to be considered even nice looking.

Clean enough blackness..

Shirley Chisholm experienced similar skepticismof her blackness in her bid for the white house. Shirley was too black because not only was she a first generation black American. And Chisholm, was a black female which made her definitely not part of the old guard leadership style or way of thinking.

Black leadership did not believe she was the right one, labeled an outsider, as well as not a "he". Chisholm had to go it alone,

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or special interests. I am the candidate of the people.

Chisholm did not wait on old guard leadership approval, she knew she was too black. Obama only knew he was black, not too black.

The old guard have no use for Obama because he is black, he thinks like a black, he is not quite mainstream, taking their lead from Joseph Biden. With all the limelight on Obama, old guard leadearship are worried that corporate America may not be willing to meet their demands. And Obama just may not take them along on his ride because they are not black enough. These old guards feel safe with Hilliary Clinton. Clinton will have to be black enough for these old school blacks and their connection to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

So Obama does a Chisholm. Obama takes his campaign to the people..to the street. It is here, the grass root folks who believe that Obama is rooted in the essence of what it means to be a black in America. It's in his walk. Watch Obama movement, he lets you know, it is an outsider that can mingle with the insiders without missing a step in his stroll walk. It's a style of blackness in that walk, a coolness, a level head under pressure. Other African-Americans will not vote for Obama because he is black. Obama has not embraced these African-Americans to map out their benefits in voting for him. Obama has not internalized their way of compliance with mainstream politics. Obama is too black in his identity still, for them to jeopardize their connections to raced white power.

But Chisholm said it best,

The next time a woman runs, or a black, or a Jew or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start… I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for President, but that has never really been true.

That's the same message Obama gives to this little boy (in the picture below) in Alexandria, Virginia, when his momma asks who shall I vote for?

photo: Gerald People

How Long? Not Long..John Lewis

John Lewis has switched. Lewis has heard the voices of the people and now suppots Barack Obama instead of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Lewis, a foot soldier of the civil right movement, could not avoid the freedom train of change.

According to the New York Times:

“In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit,” said Mr. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who endorsed Mrs. Clinton last fall. “Something is happening in America and people are prepared and ready to make that great leap.”


Welcome aboard the freedom train:

The freedom train is coming, can't you hear the whistle blowing
Its time get your ticket and get on board
Its time for all the people to take this freedom ride
Get it together and work for freedom side by side

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Seem like the times are changing people
The trains waiting at the station
go on up to the mountain top and get on board
Were gonna ride on through the valley
Under the clear blue sky
Everybody's gonna stand up proud with their heads held high

I'm gonna ride on the freedom train
I ain't gonna live this way again
I'm gonna get on the freedom train
from this day on I'll be a free man (yes I will I'll be a free man)

Keep on moving, Cast your vote
Tell 'em where to get off ,Keep on Going
We're gonna see the mountains, Keep on going
Gotta get your ticket,The Freedom Train

Strong Wind and Freezing Rain Obama Voters went to the Polls

CNNPolitics. The wind of change was joined by freezing rain, but Obama prevailed. The polls in Maryland was extended and hour and half beyond the 8:00 p.m. closing to accomodate voters battling traffic because of the weather.

A Maryland judge ordered polls in the state to remain open an extra 90 minutes because of extreme weather that hindered some voters from reaching their polling places. Maryland polls closed at 9:30 p.m. instead 8 p.m. Watch voters brave the weather to vote »

High winds and freezing rain caused traffic tie-ups in the central part of the state, portions of which were under an ice storm warning.

"It's really hard for people to get anywhere, so we are giving everybody a little extra time to get to the polls," said Ross Goldstein, spokesman for the Maryland Elections Board.

Drivers on Interstate 95 between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., told CNN there were dozens of cars on the sides of the road because of the ice.

NAACP denies email supporting Obama as a hoax

Baltimoresun.com reports: The NAACP denounced as a hoax yesterday an e-mail purportedly written by the head of the civil rights group titled: "Your Ten Reasons to Choose Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton."

"I did not write the '10 reasons' and have not and will not support or oppose any candidate or party for president," Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in a statement. He also said the group "is studiously nonpartisan and does not engage in partisan politics."

Richard McIntire, a spokesman for the Baltimore-based civil rights group, said he learned of the e-mail yesterday. He said it was not known who disseminated the e-mail or when it was first sent.

Sweet Victory-Maryland and D. C. Obama Wins!

David Espo of WASHINGTON writes: "Barack Obama has won the Democratic presidential primary in the District of Columbia, adding it to victories in Maryland and Virginia. That makes it eight straight triumphs for him since Super Tuesday over Hillary Rodham Clinton."

CNN Projects Obama Wins Virginia

Obama Wins Virginia's Democratic Primary
By DAVID ESPO

"Barack Obama has won Virginia's Democratic primary, defeating Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Obama is also hoping to capture first place in Tuesday's Democratic primaries in Maryland and the District of Columbia."

Obama challenges Clinton with 62 percent. Obama will have to wait on Maryland and Washington voters who have been granted longer hours to vote due to the weather, polls closing at 9:30 p.m.

Some folks working for Hillary Clinton are not taking the sound defeat so well. According to Suzanne Goldenberg and Ewen MacAskill of guardian.co.uk, The crushing defeats for Clinton brought new signs of disarray within her camp including the resignation of her deputy campaign manager, Michael Henry. As the results came in, her campaign worked the telephones in an effort to reassure donors that she remained a viable candidate.

Who is Obama's running mate?

At the Obama rally in Alexandria, Obama opened the floor to questions. Obama only answered four questions, one from a young lady in a green sweater, a young man from the Ivory Coast, a young woman who was undecided, and a young male teacher.

Of course, I had my hand in the air, I wanted to know what qualities would he look for in his running mate? I did not get a chance to ask the question. However it appears that Obama is charmed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. Does this mean that Obama will forego selecting a woman as his running mate.

If Obama support comes from women, it makes sense that his running mate will be a female. Otherwise, why are women voting for him, if he is support to be an agent of change surely he would not select a male.

What say you?

Superdelegates matters, Obama now, We can't Wait four more years,

This post comes from BlackPerspective. net.Yobachi breaks down the voting process for the Democrats nominee:

"If you’ve been following the news for the last week, by now you should know about “superdelegates”. I first wrote about them back in early January after the New Hampshire primary, and how in that case they gave Obama an actual win when he and Clinton tied in voter delegates.

But let’s recap so that everyone understands what we’re talking about. Determining the party’s nominee is not decided by the overall popular vote from the primaries. State by state delegates are assigned to each candidate depending on percentage of votes, and this is decided based on congressional district for the democrats as far as I understand it.

To become the Democratic nominee you have to win 2025 delegates. But, on top of the delegates that are earned from voting in the primaries and caucuses, there is this group of people called super delegates. Super delegates are simply individuals who are party officials who are handed a delegate that is equal to the delegates earned in the voting. These folks include Congressmen, ex-presidents, some governors and mayors, and simple state party officials.

For example, in New Hampshire, 8 out to the 30 delegates were super delegates. That means 8 individual people made up 26% of the total vote by themselves. That’s right, it’s rigged.

Right now Hillary Clinton has a total delegate count of 1,148, with Obama closing fast, up to 1,121 after sweeping 4 primaries and caucuses this weekend. Clinton receives 924 from primary and caucus votes or what are called “pledged delegates”, and the other 224 are from super delegates. Obama takes 986 of his votes from pledged delegates and 135 from super delegates. So Barack Obama has to date actually won the voting and earned more delegates from the voters; yet, Hillary Clinton is in the lead!

THEY’RE STEALING THE ELECTION Y’ALL, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

Hillary is receiving support from 63 percent of the super delegates to Barack’s 37 percent. That’s an almost 2 to 1 split. If you take away the super delegates Barack would lead by 62 delegates, but because of the entrenched party machine folks favoring Hillary, she instead leads by 27. That’s an almost 90 point turn around.

It’s really simple here. Hillary Clinton is the entrenched party candidate. She’s worked for Congress since the 1970s; her husband was head of the Democratic Leadership Council; then they were in the white house for 8 years; now she’s been a Senator for 8 years.

The whole apparatus of the Democratic Party has loyalties to them. They’ve raised money for these folks to win, campaigned for them successfully; made back room deals with them for years, even decades. And the Clinton business interest can be a luring attraction to these folks who want to make big money on the side. Plus the Clintons are known for selling ambassadorships, cabinet positions, and even the Lincoln bedroom in the White House to their allies and friends. And these slick ass politicians who are the super delegates, these party bosses want part of that action.

The political bosses have the fix in. This is how it’s going to go. Obama is going to win the majority of delegates tonight, and may even sweep like he did this weekend, catapulting him further ahead in the pledged delegate count of the voters. Obama will win the voter delegates and be right on the cusp of the nomination; except, the party bosses will support Hillary, putting her over the top. The Democratic political machine will hand the election to Clinton in defiance of the voters and will of the party rank and file. They will steal this election from the voters the same way these same people complain about republicans stealing elections.

And if some how that doesn’t quite work, the folks that run the party will then seat the Florida and Michigan delegates that Clinton won overwhelming because Obama didn’t campaign there as agreed, due to those two states violating the Democratic National Committee rules on when they hold their primaries. That will give Clinton a net gain to put her over the top if it is close.

Either way, the Democratic Party Machine has politricks to make sure their patron gets elected.

The voters of the democratic primary and party members must demand that super delegates suspend their role, and not cast votes at the convention; letting the will of the people stand. For the voters to vote one way, then to have the party machine come behind them and hand the nomination to someone else is undemocratic. The people should not stand for this. Call the DNC and call on the Super Delegates to pledge to refrain from stealing this election!
If you still need help understanding the whole delegate thing, CNN has a graphic and more explanation.

Letter requesting volunteers to those who attended the Alexandria rally

Friends, [that would include me]

First of all, thank you so much for joining us at Senator Obama's rally yesterday in Alexandria

We are in the final hours of the campaign here in Virginia. We NEED your help tomorrow (and tonight!) to make sure Senator Obama sweeps Northern Virginia and the whole state.

Many of you have volunteered with the campaign before, and have assignments for tonight and for election day. So, if someone from the campaign has already given you marching orders, go with those.

For the rest of you, it's all hands on deck time. Our main office location is 6066 Leesburg Pike in Falls Church. We need volunteers TONIGHT (we go until 9 PM) and TOMORROW (Election Day) All day (9 AM - 7 PM). Any time you can give us is a big help. We need folks on the phones, knocking on doors, and helping with office work. Drop by the office and lend a hand!


Rallies are great, but this is the stuff that wins elections!


Best,


Yohannes Abraham
Obama for America, Virginia
(515) 418 2702
www.VA.BarackObama.com
YAbraham@barackobama.com

Michelle Obama -What Obama achieves it does not matter

Michelle Obama stated in Bethesda, Md, it was one year ago today Barack Obama announced he was going to be the next president. Obama stood on the steps of the Illinois statehouse in Springfried. Michelle stated that nobody was going to show up because the temperature was sub temperature. But, she found out like many folks are discovering she was wrong about the Obama appeal more than 16,000 folks showed up.

Here are some other things they got wrong about Obama campaign:

1. Could not raise the money

2. No Organization to compete with political dinosaurs

3. Iowa was a caucus-you need to spend time on the ground/no chance of winning

4. National Poll had him losing delegates but there was only a 2 point difference

5. South Carolina did not matter because he was support to win but Obama won by 28 points.

conclusion: Pundits sometimes get things wrong, or they don't know what they are talking about or all alone the people knew---Obama was like the little choo-choo, yes I can, I know I can.

Wind of Change is blowing in VIrginia calling for Obama

Mason Simms

Maryland for Barack Obama source

The email blasts went out that a ticket only event would take place in Alexandria, Virginia. I did not get the email! Over 3000 red tickets were gone by the time I discovered that the tickets were being given out, and by 6:00 p.m. I did not have a ghost of a chance of getting a ticket.

I decided that I would at camp out early on Sunday, to at least be a part of the Obama phenomenon. I talked two new comrades, Gerald and Fred, to take part in this moment of Obama fever. Fred was a little reluctant. I think it was because he had exprienced my driving skills and he did not have a lot of faith in me driving him on I-495. Nevertheless, I talked the two into going, and it was only after I got Fred on the road that I revealed we did not have tickets.

But I believed, we could get ticket based on the conversation that I had with one of the Obama campaigners. Fred was a skeptic, as I told him we are going to get in. I wanted to leave by 8:30 a.m. but the fact that I had to wait on Fred, we did not get to T.C. Williams High School until about 10:00 a.m. This made me worry about our chances of getting inside to see Obama.

There were about 100 folks already standing in line. So much for being the first folks there. Now, I had to get my beg on. As I asked campaign workers if there were extra tickets. No, No extra tickets. So the next step was to get the message into the crowd that this woman was in line looking for a ticket to get in.

Maggie would come to my rescue with a red ticket. .
I gave Maggie a big hug. But, I had two comradres with me, it would not be fair to go in without them. I still needed two more tickets.

John who was standing in front of me tells me that his wife and 2 children would be joining him and if his children would not need tickets to get in, he would give us his two tickets. Cool, we were almost in, until one of the campaigners came out to announce that no one would be able to get in without a ticket, including children!

It was at this point that Cassandra came forward with two tickets. Me, Cassandra, Gerald
Cassandra stated the tickets were orginally for her parents, but they would not be attending. By the time the announcer was ready to kick out of line Fred, we had our three red tickets. Now we are ready to go in when the doors open at 12:30 p.m.Monica FikesMekayla and Mom

John gave me a little background about the school as we wait to go in.

John, informed me that T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia was the topic of a movie called "Remember the Titans", starring Denzel Washinton about a school that was desegregated.Noah Belkhayat,Anna Moeser, Christopher Wong, me and Zack Neurohr

Interesting. John had been to other Obama events and was very helpful.


The doors opens and we have to pass through a metal detector. Fred is traveling with a cane. After they checked Fred's cane for a hidden sword, Fred is ushered in and gets a front row seat! Of course Gerald and I do not know this until after the event, because we were trying to get though the metal detector when Fred received special treatment.

Yes, this is the same Fred who was reluctant to attend the event!


Anyway, I decide I do not want to sit in the benchers and I finally get one of the campaign workers to allow me to sit on the floor. I get to sit right behind the VIP section. This means I will not get a chance to touch Obama, but I would get an upfront and eye contact view. It will have to do.

I am in the room, even if I did not get into the press room..Alex Lorman and M.E. Sprengelmeyer

Obama is on the move toward change

Barack Obama wins big. Obama is slowly cutting into Hillary lead. According to David Espo -WASHINGTON - "Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination."

It is possible that Obama will take the lead after Tuesday primary, as he courts Republicans defectors.

Colin Powell for Vice President

From CNN Political Ticker:

Colin Powell may support Democrat or Independent in ‘08
Posted: 08:12 PM ET


Click on link to Watch Colin Powell discuss the presidential race.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who served under President Bush, said Friday he may not back the GOP presidential nominee in November, telling CNN that “I am keeping my options open at the moment.”

“I have voted for members of both parties in the course of my adult life,” Powell, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “And as I said earlier, I will vote for the candidate I think can do the best job for America, whether that candidate is a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent.”

Powell also offered praise for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, calling him an “exciting person on the political stage.

“He has energized a lot of people in America,” said Powell, who briefly weighed his own run for the White House in the mid-1990s. “He has energized a lot of people around the world. And so I think he is worth listening to and seeing what he stands for.”

Powell, who has largely steered clear of politics since leaving the administration in 2004, noted that the next president will need to work to restore America’s standing in the world.

“I will ultimately vote for the person I believe brings to the American people the kind of vision the American people want to see for the next four years,” he said. “A vision that reaches out to the rest of the world, that starts to restore confidence in America, that starts to restore favorable ratings to America. Frankly, we've lost a lot in recent years.”

Programming note: Tune in for the full interview with Colin Powell on “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,” airing this Sunday, 11-1 PM, ET.

Obama coming to Virginia

From VirginiaDem.org


RICHMOND, VA – U.S. Sen. Barack Obamawill criss-cross Virginia in the days leading up to the Potomac Primary, making stops in Richmond, Alexandria, Virginia Beach and Roanoke to talk directly to voters about his plans to bring people together to deliver change we can believe in.

Obama will hold a Sunday “Stand for Change” town hall event at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, a rally in Virginia Beach and a Monday morning town hall in Roanoke. (Details on the Roanoke event will be announced soon.) He will also be attending tomorrow night’s Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Richmond.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Richmond, VA

DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VIRGINIA JEFFERSON-JACKSON DAY DINNER

AlltelPavillion at the Stuart C Siegel Center 1200 West Broad Street Richmond, VA Doors Open: 6:00 PM Tickets are required for more information visit the Democratic Party of Virginia website

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Alexandria, VA

“STAND FOR CHANGE” TOWN HALL MEETING

TC Williams High School Gym 3330 King St Alexandria, VA 22302 Doors Open: 12:30 PM The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Free tickets can be picked up at either of Obama for America’s Northern Virginia offices, listed below. Tickets are limited to two per person. Tickets will be available beginning at 5:00 PM Friday. ***For security reasons, no bags are allowed and please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted. Parking is limited, so please car pool or take public transportation. ***


Ticketing Locations: Falls Church Field Office 6066 Leesburg Pike, 4th Floor Falls Church, VA Open 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Phone: 703-778-6866 and the Falls Church Phone Bank 400 North Washington St, 3rd Floor Falls Church, VA Open 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Phone: 703-778-6866



SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Virginia Beach, VA

“STAND FOR CHANGE” RALLY WITH BARACK OBAMA

Virginia Beach Convention Center 1000 19th St Virginia Beach, VA Doors Open: 5:30 PM Program Begins: 7:30 PM The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but an RSVP is strongly encouraged. To RSVP or for more information, please visit va.baracakobama.com. An RSVP does not guarantee admission. Admission is on a first come, first served basis. Seating is extremely limited. ***For security reasons, no bags are allowed and please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted.***


MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Roanoke, VA

“STAND FOR CHANGE” TOWN HALL MEETING Location To Be Announced Doors Open: 7 AM The event will be free and open to the public, but tickets will be required. Ticketing information will be released soon. ***For security reasons, no bags will be allowed and please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted. Parking is limited, so please car pool or take public transportation. ***



UpdateStand for Change Rally with Barack Obama

University of Maryland
Comcast Center
1 Terrapin Trail
College Park, MD 20742

Monday, February 11, 2008
Doors Open: 10:30 a.m.

Obama and Huckabee in College Park, MD

From baltimoresun.com:
Obama, Huckabee plan events in College Park
Clinton also plans to campaign in state on Monday, aides say
By a Baltimoresun.com staff reporter

12:25 PM EST, February 8, 2008

Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee plan to hold rallies in College Park in the coming days, and Hillary Clinton's campaign said the candidate will be in Maryland on Monday.

Huckabee, one of two remaining major candidates for the Republican nomination, announced today that he will speak Saturday at noon at the Stamp Student Union Building on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Obama will be in College Park on Monday to host a "Stand for Change" rally at the University of Maryland. The event is set to take place at the university's Cole Field House on Campus Drive. Doors will open at 10:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is strongly encouraged. To RSVP, click here. For security reasons, no bags are allowed inside the event. No signs or banners are permitted.

Obama is also expected to attend a town hall meeting on Sunday at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.

A rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton is planned today at noon outside the Maryland State House in Annapolis, with Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Barbara Mikulski planning to attend.

Clinton isn't planning to be at the event, but aides said that she will campaign in Maryland on Monday, one day before the primary.

For a complete list of scheduled campaign events and appearances, click here.

The Associated Press contributed to this article

Obama's Kenya Grandmother tells Obama to keep trying

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama's Kenya village looks to US vote by Katy Pownall, Associated Press Writer, writes:

"KOGELO, Kenya — Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother listened to primary election results under the shade of a mango tree, none too bothered to learn that the U.S. presidential contender was neck-and-neck with his chief rival..." Re/ad more click here

Obama on Fire

The Obama and Hillary Battle is close. If anyone thought it was a given for Hillary in winning the nomination, they were sadly mistaken. CNN reports the total number of delegates to get the party's nod is 2025 delegates. Hillary after Super Tuesday is leading with 823 to Obama's 731. Amazing. Obama's first time out of the box, compared to John Edwards second run, is less than 100 delegates away from taking the lead from the well branded second Bill Clinton.

According to CNN, on Super Tuesday, the votes were spit 582 for Clinton and 562 for Obama. Talk about closing the gap, Hillary captured only 20 more delegates than Obama. And this was after Edwards dropped out of the race !!!

The next round of caucuses should have Hillary's fan worried. On Super Tuesday Obama won 13 states and Hillary won only 8. This means the closet Obamaholics must stand front and center in supporting a victory for Obama. According to CNN, althought Obama lost both California and New York, money is on his side. Four states hold contests this weekend; three other races set for next Tuesday

"Heading into the next states ... Barack Obama has a money advantage," Borger said. "And now Hillary Clinton wants to debate every single week because she doesn't have the money to compete with him for paid media. I think we'll be seeing a lot more Obama and Hillary Clinton one-on-one."

The Democratic campaigns now turn their attention to the Louisiana primary and Nebraska and Washington caucuses Saturday, the Maine caucuses Sunday and the so-called Potomac primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia next Tuesday.

The candidates also have circled February 19 when Wisconsin holds its primary, March 4 when voters in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont head to the polls, and April 22 in Pennsylvania.

While failing to win the biggest prizes of California and New York, Obama should see many positive trends in the Super Tuesday results as he battles Clinton, the presumptive nominee a few months ago."


For those folks who doubted Obama ability to win, it appears Obama is in it to win.

Sweet Georgia! Obama Wins!

Read the story by David Espo, special correspondent:

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama won the Georgia primary Tuesday night, the leading edge of a coast-to-coast struggle with Hillary Rodham Clinton for delegates in the grueling Democratic presidential campaign. Arizona Sen. John McCain challenged his remaining rivals for control of the Republican race.



It was Obama's second straight Southern triumph, and like an earlier victory in South Carolina, was built on a wave of black votes.

The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls.

The 87 delegates at stake in Georgia's primary were divided between the two candidates in rough proportion to the votes.

After an early series of low-delegate, single-state contests, Super Tuesday was anything but — its primaries and caucuses were spread across nearly half the country in the most wide-open presidential campaign in memory.

Overall, Clinton was winning only a slight edge among women and white voters, both groups that she has won handily in earlier contests, according to preliminary results from interviews with voters in 16 states leaving polling places. Obama was collecting the overwhelming majority of votes cast by blacks, and Clinton was gaining the votes of roughly six in 10 Hispanics.

In Georgia, blacks cast slightly more than half the votes, and Obama was winning nearly a 90 percent share of those. Clinton was supported by nearly six in 10 white voters, according to the exit polls.

In the GOP race, McCain had a small edge among voters calling themselves Republicans, a group he had not won in any of the earlier races. As usual, he was running strongly among independents. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was getting the votes of about four in 10 people who described themselves as conservative. McCain was wining about one-third of that group, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee about one in five.

Democrats and Republicans alike said the economy was their most important issue. Democrats said the war in Iraq ranked second and health care third. Republican primary voters said immigration was second most important after the economy, followed by the war in Iraq.

The survey was conducted in 16 states by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and television networks.

McCain was the Republican front-runner, all but unchallenged in winner-take-all primaries in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He looked for a home-state win in Arizona, as well.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, struggling to sustain his candidacy, concentrated on Missouri and California as well as several caucus states.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee concentrated on a swath of Southern and border states. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had the fourth spot on the ballot.

In the first contest decided Tuesday, Huckabee won all 18 delegates at the West Virginia GOP convention after McCain's supporters sided with him in a successful attempt to deprive Romney of a victory.

Democrats Obama and Clinton conceded in advance that neither was likely to emerge from the busiest day in primary history with anything more than a relatively narrow edge in convention delegates.

"Senator Clinton, I think, has to be the prohibitive favorite going in given her name recognition, but we've been steadily chipping away," said Obama, seeking to downplay expectations.

As she voted in Chappaqua, N.Y., Clinton said, "The stakes are huge."

Her aides conceded in advance that Obama might win more Super Tuesday delegates than the former first lady.

Already, both campaigns were looking ahead to Feb. 9 contests in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington state and Feb. 12 primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. And increasingly, it looked like the Democrats' historic race between a woman and a black man would go into early spring, possibly longer.

Democrats had 1,681 Super Tuesday delegates to allocate in primaries in 15 states and caucuses in seven more plus American Samoa.

Clinton led Obama in the delegate chase as the polls opened, 261 to 202, on the strength of so-called superdelegates. They are members of Congress and other party leaders, not chosen by primary voters or caucus-goers. It takes 2,025 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.

Republicans had 1,023 delegates at stake in 15 primaries, six caucuses and one state convention.

The evening began with McCain holding 102 delegates, to 93 for Romney, 43 for Huckabee and four for Paul. It takes 1,191 to win the Republican nomination.

The de facto national primary was the culmination of a relentless campaign that moved into overdrive during Christmas week.

After a brief rest for the holiday, the candidates flew back to Iowa on Dec. 26 for a final stretch of campaigning before the state's caucuses offered the first test of the election year. New Hampshire's traditional first-in-the-nation primary followed a few days later, then a seemingly endless series of campaign days interspersed by debates and a handful of primaries and caucuses.

Along the way, the poorest performers dropped out: Democratic Sens. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio; and Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.

Former Sen. John Edwards pulled out of the Democratic race last week, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the Republican field.

Edwards offered no endorsement as he exited, instead leaving Obama and Clinton to vie for help from his fundraisers and supporters.

But Obama benefited from an endorsement by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who made a series of campaign appearances in California as well as his home state of Massachusetts.

Giuliani quit the race and backed McCain in the same breath, clearing the way for the Westerner in New York and New Jersey.

Giuliani's departure also made it possible for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to back McCain. Schwarzenegger said he would not have done so as long as the former mayor was in the race.

Obama and Clinton spent an estimated $20 million combined to advertise on television in the Feb 5 states.

Obama spent $11 million, running ads in 18 of the 22 states with Democratic contests. Clinton ran ads in 17, for a total of $9 million.

Neither advertised in Illinois, Obama's home state.