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Ed Rendell told Obama he was too skinny and needed to eat a Philly cheesesteak everyday.
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Notice the black man smiling in this picture.
I just love seeing black people so obviously happy.
It gets me all teary-eyed.
This post has been edited by Beamer: Oct 11 2008, 04:41 PM
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Quote: Ed Rendell told Obama he was too skinny and needed to eat a Philly cheesesteak everyday.
I think he's lost weight too- but boy, he has to have an awfully demanding schedule.
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Quote: Posted on Sat, Oct.
11, 2008
Thousands cheer Obama at four Phila.
Stops
By Larry Eichel
INQUIRER SENIOR WRITER
Helen Henderson, 82 years old and African American, sat in the sunshine at 52d and Locust yesterday, waiting for Barack Obama to arrive.
She said she felt excited, honored and blessed.
"I never thought I'd live to see a black man in the White House," said the retired nurse, who lives in University City.
"I sent him a small contribution in the mail.
I owe it to him because he's taking a chance for us.
I pray for him."
Yesterday, thousands of African Americans and other Philadelphians got to see and hear the Democratic presidential candidate.
On a warm and cloudless Saturday, Obama did something he had never done before in the campaign - make four consecutive stops in the same city, stumping mostly in black neighborhoods.
He started in North Philadelphia at 8:15 in the morning, then hit Mayfair, Germantown and finally West Philadelphia in early afternoon.
He'd done two fund-raisers in the city on Friday.
That he would devote so much time to Philadelphia at this point made perfect sense.
In the world of presidential politics, where New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix are in non-competitive states, this is the biggest city that matters.
And with three weeks left before Election Day, it was time to stir the urban faithful.
Supporters turned out by the thousands, an estimated 20,000 in West Philadelphia alone.
They cheered his speeches and jumped for joy as his motorcade passed.
"No question, the mayor [Michael Nutter] and I were clamoring to get him to do this kind of day," said Gov.
Rendell, who, along with Nutter, Sen.
Bob Casey Jr. and numerous other Democratic officeholders accompanied Obama on his tour.
". . . Think of the buzz this will create."
Tony Goodwin, 58, a retired firefighter from the Logan section, already had all the buzz he needed.
"The dream is becoming a reality, thank God," said Goodwin, wearing an elaborate Obama t-shirt at Progress Plaza in North Philadelphia, where the line started forming at 11 p.m.
Friday. "I've already got president and first lady shirts, five of them.
If he doesn't win, I'll stroke out."
At all four stops, Obama gave a variation of the same speech.
A key element was a thank you of sorts to his Republican rival, Sen.
John McCain.
On Friday, at a town hall meeting in Minnesota, McCain had drawn boos when he defended Obama as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president."
Said Obama: "Now, I want to acknowledge that Sen.
McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric yesterday, and I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Sen.
McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks for that."
For the most part, though, Obama talked about the economy, blaming the Republicans for the current crisis and laying out his own plans to cut taxes for families making less than $250,000 a year and invest $15 billion per year in renewable energy.
"I don't Quote: Ronald Reagan that often, but are you better off than you were four years ago?" Obama asked the multiracial crowd outside the Mayfair Diner, his smallest of the day.
"Are you better off than you were four weeks ago?
We've had enough, and it's time for a change."
A McCain spokesman, Tucker Bounds, described Obama's words as "pie-the-sky rhetoric" and said the Democrat's tax plans would burden small business.
In the four speeches, Obama toyed with his audiences at times.
He told a story about ordering a piece of pie at a small-town Ohio diner where the workers were Democrats and the owner a Republican.
The story ended with Obama suggesting the owner vote Democratic because, on the economy, "we can't do any worse."
The problem with the diner, he told his listeners, was that it didn't have sweet potato pie - an African American favorite - on the menu.
At the rally at Vernon Park in Germantown, a woman shouted out an offer to make him some.
"We might have to have a sweet potato pie contest," Obama said, as other offers flowed.
"I'll be the judge, because I know my sweet potato pie."
At Vernon Park, David Wilcots, 46, an environmental engineer, contemplated the prospect of an Obama victory, which he and other African Americans now believe is a probability.
On the one hand, Wilcots said, the venom expressed by the crowds at Republican rallies last week makes him fear for Obama's safety.
On the other, he marvels at what might transpire on Nov.
4.
"It wouldn't resolve everything in race relations, but it would mean we'd reached a milestone in this country thought to be impossible a few short years ago," he said.
"America would be embracing as president a black person, a person of mixed-race background, and a person one generation removed from Africa.
Those are three pretty big embraces."
Contact senior writer Larry Eichel at 215-854-2415 or leichel@phillynews.com.
Inquirer staff writer Carolyn Davis contributed to this article.
Find this article at:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking...rd=101108032902
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Quote: Quote:
Notice the black man smiling in this picture.
I just love seeing black people so obviously happy.
It gets me all teary-eyed.
I know it's been a long time coming for some folks what I like is the sea of diversity here....it feels like America.
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The bottom picture in post #2
I can see Jews smiling, and whites smiling, and blacks smiling, and Hispanics smiling.
The whole world is smiling.
There will be a worldwide sigh of relief that will solve the ozone problem on the morning of Nov.
5 when people wake up knowing Barack Obama
is our new president.
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Quote: the bottom picture in post #2
I can see Jews smiling, and whites smiling, and blacks smiling, and Hispanics smiling.
The whole world is smiling.
There will be a worldwide sigh of relief that will solve the ozone problem on the morning of Nov.
5 when people wake up knowing Barack Obama
is our new president.
That's exactly the way I feel Graham...that sigh of relief!
I hope they don't pull another fast one on us yet again.
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Quote: October 11, 2008
Obama's Philadelphia Campaign Blitz
(CBS)From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:
(PHILADELPHIA) Barack Obama took the city by storm today, attracting crowds of tens of thousands at four rallies that took place over a span of just five hours.
This marked the campaigns first major push into the Philadelphia area, a region that Obama must win if he intends to capture the states 23 electoral votes.
Joined by the states top guns, Gov.
Ed Rendell, Sen. Bob Casey, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Obama spoke to diverse, working class crowds through out the city, arguing that John McCain can not relate to their struggles.
John doesnt really seem to get whats going on, Obama said at a rally outside of the Mayfair Diner, When this crisis first started, he talked about how the fundamentals of the economy are sound.
Now I dont know about you, but where I come from nothings more fundamental than a job.
Hundreds lined the streets and people stood outside of their homes as Obamas motorcade whizzed through neighborhoods.
Most rallies drew crowds as large as 15,000, as supporters packed city parks and streets.
The rally in West Philadelphia looked more like a street fair than a political event.
Both Rendell and Nutter said that they made the suggestion to the campaign to host the campaign blitz through out the city, stressing the importance of the area.
Senator Obama being in Philadelphia, the enormity of our media market, generates a tremendous amount of attention and excitement about his campaign, Nutter said.
When we max our vote in the city and in the suburbs, we take the state.
Rendell told supporters that they must generate a high voter turn out in order for Obama to win in Pennsylvania.
I wanna see Philadelphia go over 70%, Rendell said referring to turn out, Theres no excuse.
At all four of the rallies, Obama responded to John McCains efforts to tone down his rhetoric, saying that he appreciates his opponents call to disagree without being disagreeable. In turn, Obama praised McCains military service, something that he hasnt done in recent weeks, and called on his supporters to do the same.
I expect all of my supporters to understand this Senator McCain has served this country with honor, Obama said at the Georgetown rally, He deserves our thanks for that.
Every veteran deserves our thanks.
Despite the call for more respect in the election, Obama said he expects that the McCain campaign will continue to hammer away at him with negative ads and accusations.
They want to spend the next four weeks talking about me - making up stories.
Weve seen some rough stuff on TV from them, Obama said, adding, What I got to explain to them is I can take it for four more weeks what America cant take is four more years of Bush-McCain economics.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/11/po...ry4515189.shtml
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That sketch of him is a dynamite likeness!
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Thnx for the great articles Beamer!
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DWB -- Thanks for the great pics!!
Beamer -- Thanks for the great articles!!
As for Rendell's suggestion about Obama's need to eat a Philly cheese steak daily -- I agree!!
Obama is one skinny guy in person --- and is even more handsome in person, too!
"I'm asking you to believe.
Not just in my ability to bring real change in Washington ...
I'm asking you to believe in yours." BARACK OBAMA
I'm Barackin' around the clock!
"Why couldnt Lucas McCain AKA The Rifleman run for president instead of John McCain.
At least he had a gun and a basic set of morals
.." Credited to a random blogger
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