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Craziness...
This story is from May I believe... just before I left Mason City.
Obama Visits NIACC
by Anthony Welsch
KIMT NewsChannel 3
KIMT.com
Senator Barack Obama nearly filled the NIACC gym in Mason City Wednesday night as the first democrat to stop in North Iowa this caucus season. The packed gymnasium rallied behind the first term senator from Illinois, many of them eager to hear the highly touted speaker in person for the first time.
The presidential hopeful spoke at length about the very same thing he's often chastised for by fellow lawmakers in Washington: Hope. But for this audience in Mason City, it was a message they could embrace.
"Ordinary people who at each and every juncture have inspired this country to great heights. That's the moment we're in right now. That's the moment we're in right now," Obama said.
The first-term senator says our country is at a crossroads, a time when he feels the middle class is at a disadvantage, and stuck in a war he doesn't support.
"Most of all, we've got a war that should've never been authorized and should have never been waged," he said.
He then rallied his North Iowa troops on virtually every hot-button topic this campaign year. Calling for Universal Health Care by 2012 and cutting tax breaks to companies that move jobs out of the U-S, and showing Union support.
"People who have worked at a plant for 20, 25 years suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them and see their jobs move to or ," he said.
This election, he believes American voters are keeping a closer eye on the issues.
"They are paying attention in a way they have not paid attention in a long time. And when that happens, good things happen," Obama said.
That, he says could spark a change in how politics works in the United States. Instead of political jousting he thinks Americans want problem solving.
"That sense that somehow we can come together to solve problems and make everybody's lives a little better," he said.
Falling back on those principles of hope and faith, in the process he believes will help the country.
And ultimately--- put him office.
"We're going to have an energy policy that makes sense... We're going to bring an end to this war in Iraq. And you might, just might elect a new President named Barack Obama," he said.
While it is early in the campaign, the gymasium full of applause might be a sign that plenty of North Iowans are ready to pick their candidate.
Obama will be at NIACC again Thursday morning for an invitation only health-care roundtable and then plans to head west to Algona for a noon rally at the High School.
This story is from May I believe... just before I left Mason City.
Obama Visits NIACC
by Anthony Welsch
KIMT NewsChannel 3
KIMT.com
Senator Barack Obama nearly filled the NIACC gym in Mason City Wednesday night as the first democrat to stop in North Iowa this caucus season. The packed gymnasium rallied behind the first term senator from Illinois, many of them eager to hear the highly touted speaker in person for the first time.
The presidential hopeful spoke at length about the very same thing he's often chastised for by fellow lawmakers in Washington: Hope. But for this audience in Mason City, it was a message they could embrace.
"Ordinary people who at each and every juncture have inspired this country to great heights. That's the moment we're in right now. That's the moment we're in right now," Obama said.
The first-term senator says our country is at a crossroads, a time when he feels the middle class is at a disadvantage, and stuck in a war he doesn't support.
"Most of all, we've got a war that should've never been authorized and should have never been waged," he said.
He then rallied his North Iowa troops on virtually every hot-button topic this campaign year. Calling for Universal Health Care by 2012 and cutting tax breaks to companies that move jobs out of the U-S, and showing Union support.
"People who have worked at a plant for 20, 25 years suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them and see their jobs move to or ," he said.
This election, he believes American voters are keeping a closer eye on the issues.
"They are paying attention in a way they have not paid attention in a long time. And when that happens, good things happen," Obama said.
That, he says could spark a change in how politics works in the United States. Instead of political jousting he thinks Americans want problem solving.
"That sense that somehow we can come together to solve problems and make everybody's lives a little better," he said.
Falling back on those principles of hope and faith, in the process he believes will help the country.
And ultimately--- put him office.
"We're going to have an energy policy that makes sense... We're going to bring an end to this war in Iraq. And you might, just might elect a new President named Barack Obama," he said.
While it is early in the campaign, the gymasium full of applause might be a sign that plenty of North Iowans are ready to pick their candidate.
Obama will be at NIACC again Thursday morning for an invitation only health-care roundtable and then plans to head west to Algona for a noon rally at the High School.