JACLYN HOUGHTON
The Edmond Sun
EDMOND — OKLAHOMA CITY — James Allen brought his 13-year-old daughter along to see history in the making on Monday.
The Oklahoma City resident, along with more than 1,000 Oklahomans, filed into the Farmers Public Market Building in south Oklahoma City to hear U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama speak.
Some have said Obama lacks experience needed for the presidency, but Allen felt differently.
“George Washington probably had less experience,” said Allen, 56.
The event was a fundraising rally charging $25 a ticket.
The U.S. senator from Illinois spoke to the crowd on a day that marked the four-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Obama shared his opinion on the war.
“We’ve got a war that should have never been authorized,” he said to a cheering crowd that held up signs reading: OU students for Obama. “A war that cost us half a trillion dollars. A war that’s cost us almost 3,200 of our bravest men and women.”
He said he thought the war was a mistake back in 2002 and he hopes that by March 31, 2008, the troops will come home.
“It is time for us to bring this war to a close,” Obama said.
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