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Obama: "The country calls us"

By Karen E. Crummy
Denver Post Staff Writer

Article Last Updated: 03/19/2007 06:34:40 AM MDT

ocratic presidential contender Barack Obama, portraying himself as the candidate for the common man, called upon hundreds of people in Denver on Sunday to shed their political apathy and embrace a movement to reclaim their government.

The Illinois senator said he understood that people no longer had confidence in their elected leaders and that they believed "government feels like a business instead of a mission." His campaign, he told the roughly 1,500 people in attendance, is their campaign, and "the country calls us."

"We have to take over Washington," he shouted into a microphone at the 1770 Sherman Street Event Complex. "At every juncture when the people decided to change this country, it changed."

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