Barack Obama transcends skin color

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/04/iowa_dems/
Jan. 4, 2008 | DES MOINES, Iowa --- Early Thursday evening -- before Barack Obama's breakthrough victory had been signed, sealed and delivered -- Iowa attorney general Tom Miller looked out at the army of hope-mongers in his own home precinct. "I thought we had a chance to win," he said, "but nothing like this." Then Miller, who last February was one of the first major Iowa political figures to endorse Obama, said with wonder in his voice, "He's going to be the next president."

There are many rivers to cross before Obama is greeted with "Hail to the Chief." But this is the moment to marvel at what the first-term Illinois senator -- virtually unknown in the nation before his epic speech to the 2004 Democratic Convention -- has already achieved. A semi-reluctant candidate just a year ago, Obama defeated Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Inevitability in a state that destroyed anti-establishment candidates like Howard Dean and Bill Bradley. By leading the way to attract 236,000 Democrats to the raucous rough-and-tumble of a caucus -- nearly double the 2004 turnout -- Obama turned Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest into a virtual primary.

Despite her third-place finish in Iowa

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[tubeviewerX20]

Obama transcends skin color to unite ALL COMMUNISTS and WELFARE DEADBEATS in America and around the world!

[ColeLite]

Obama transcends skin color??? Find a Negro who does!

[ColeLite]

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[ColeLite]

Obama transcends shin color??? Find a Negro that does my friend!

[snuffelsuf]

your silly and uninformed..

[Mischeaux61]

well said

[cqsr63]

I Agree with you whole-heartedly sir.... We have seriously GROWN as a Nation....

Thanks to GOD!

[atheistforchange]

want lies, want secrecy, want more of file-gate and travel-gate and cattle-futures-gate, want an impeachd former prez as first spouse to be in co-charge? vote billary! want improved international relations, want our country to be back on track in the respectability arena? want a cohesive america? VOTE OBAMA!

[TrouserChafe]

Obama is nothing more than a coward and a racist in a good suit. His empty sound bites are what great CULTS are made of...and you follow. If he steals this election by playing the nonstop race card he will LOSE and so many of us will make sure that happens. We can't stand this liar, sexist, phoney. He's such a BS artist that even though we are DEMS we are going to work to BRING HIM DOWN. Say no to RACISM! signed, "typical democrat"

[StopObamaNow]

Bill Bradley is on the Obama payroll-of course he supports him!