Photos: Barack Obama campaigning today in Newton, Iowa

[flpoljunkie]

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a campaign stop Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007 in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)


U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa December 30, 2007. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)


Avary Hunsinger sleeps on the chest of her father Andy Hunsinger as U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa December 30, 2007.
REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)

[DemKR]

1. That's when he told a voter to "lift me up"......is he reaching out

to religious right wing nuts?

[skipos]

2. Are you trying to be the most annoying DUer ever? You are doing a great job of it. nt

[earthlover]

10. Good observation! I couldn't agree more! My dog wonders why I broke out laughing!

[jefferson_dem]

5. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Take your spew to another thread, ok.

[loveangelc]

7. go away

[Sultana]

3. Great pics

The baby is so cute, she is dreaming of a Obama presidency :D

[AtomicKitten]

4. Thanks for bringing us this report and photos.

You are a credit to the Obama campaign and I am very grateful. K&R

[flpoljunkie]

12. Thanks, AK, for your kind words, and for the terrific photo of Obama, as well.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Here's a short video of the event -->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MBtrB9lPXQ

[AtomicKitten]

8. "We are now on the brink of doing something special."

Indeed. Gobama!

Thanks for posting this video. :)

[flpoljunkie]

11. Great clip! Thanks for posting, jefferson_dem!

[Cha]

15. "The Real Gamble"! Obama

has that one Down! Thanks, Jefferson:)

[madrchsod]

9. "Is There (Middle Class) Life After Maytag?"-newton iowa

"THE last of the Maytag factories that lifted so many people into the middle class here will close on Oct. 26. Guy Winchell and his wife, Lisa, will lose their jobs that day. Their combined income of $43 an hour will disappear and, soon after, so will their health insurance. Most of the pensions they would have received will also be gone.

The Winchells are still in their 40s. They can retrain or start a business, choices promoted by city leaders in a campaign to “reinvent” Newton without its biggest employer. But as they ponder their futures, the Winchells are uncertain about how to deal with a lower standard of living. “I’m not wanting to go waitress,” said Mrs. Winchell, who, at 41, drives a forklift and earns $19 an hour, “but I can do what I have to to make money.

Mr. Winchell, 46, having earned $24 an hour as a skilled electrician, seems paralyzed by the disappearance of his employer. He imagines that there is work for electricians in central Iowa but he hasn’t looked. “Lisa is always on me because I’m so angry,” he said. “She says, ‘What would your mom have said?’ My mom would have said, ‘Worrying is not going to help....


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/business/yourmoney/26maytag.html
Is There (Middle Class) Life After Maytag? - New York Times
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[Olney Blue]

13. Great pics! Avary will cherish this photo some day.

[Cha]

14. The drama critic from

the NYT, Jeremy McCarter, had kind words for Obama's appearance on mtp this morning..that goes well with these pics.

snip~

"..Barack Obama was more satisfying on Pakistan, and on pretty much every other subject (though he couldn't boast of getting kind words from Truckers Magazine, as Huckabee did). Like all good politicians, Obama can slip out of an inconvenient question by reframing it in his answer. When Hillary does this, it's grating; from him, it's somehow ennobling. Russert cited a Washington Post editorial criticizing Obama and his aides for arguing that Hillary's vote on the Iraq war contributed to Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Obama made clear that he was "not drawing a causal relationship between any single vote" and the tragedy, yet the upshot of his two-paragraph-long answer was that Iraq distracted us from Afghanistan, which has destabilized Pakistan, which has created the kind of volatility that gets people killed--and he said it all in a way that reinforces the notion that he's thinking more complexly about the world than his opponents. He can overdo the parsing sometimes, as when he claimed that "every objective observer" says the three leading Democratic candidates "basically have the same plan" for fixing health care except for some philosophical differences, which would be news to readers of Jon Cohn or Paul Krugman. Still, the more times you see him think and talk circles around people who have been showing up on Sunday morning TV since his school days, dodging their clichés and seeking original solutions of his own, the more you have to wonder about the true nature of his inexperience: Is he more like a rookie next to tested veterans, or young Mozart in a crowd of Salieris?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3911258

[calteacherguy]

16. Young Mozart.

:-)

[Cha]

17. Amadeus it

is and to a long a healthy life for Obama! :toast: