VIDEO: Obama’s Iowa Victory Speech
PubDef had a front-row seat to history last night.
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Loved it! Very inspiring!
For me the race of the person leading our country is not important — what matters is their conviction, progressive intellect and leadership ability. Obama has it and the good folks of Iowa showed they recognize his abilities as such a leader.
Race isn’t important either, which is why he does not stress it. If Obama ran a racialized campaign he would certainly lose.
Most whites are less concerned about race than blacks are. Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, and Charlie Dooley are just some of the proofs.
Front-page of the PD this morning, featured a front page story by David Espo and Mike Glover. I cannot locate the story at stl.com. this is the way the story reads from Dallas:
DES MOINES, Iowa - Sen. Barack Obama, bidding to become the nation’s first black president, captured the Iowa caucuses Thursday night, opening test in the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination. Mike Huckabee rode a wave of support from evangelical Christians to victory in the Republican caucuses.
I do believe that Huckabee rode a wave of support from evangelical Christians. I do not believe that Obama is bidding to be the nation’s first black president—I believe he is running for president.
The post dispatch saw fit to give Huckabee, (who received 38,000 votes, top billing over obama, who received 84,000. The Dallas paper mentioned Obama first—the pd had it rearranged so that the wave of support line for Huckabee was in the first sentence of the front-page article.
Sorry about the nit-picking—-
Wow! What a speech! Go Obama! Fired up and Ready to go, baby!