Barack Attack: Stumping in Colorado

Barack attack

By JOHN MOTSINGER Colorado Daily Staff
Monday, March 19, 2007 10:19 PM MDT

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) appeared before a capacity crowd of 1,400 avid supporters at the Sherman Event Center in Denver on Sunday, calling for troop withdrawal in Iraq and lampooning accusations that he lacks experience.

A line snaked around the block as fervent Coloradans waited over an hour to see the presidential hopeful, many paying up to $100 to attend the fundraiser event. Obama finally appeared after a rousing introduction by Colorado State Senator Peter Groff in which he encouraged Coloradans to take the state into “deep blue territory” by giving Sen. Obama their 9 electoral votes.

Though he addressed a broken healthcare system, the “absence of an energy policy,” and children still being “left behind” as the result of underfunded education programs, the greatest applause came when Obama spoke about the war in Iraq, which he said “never should have been authorized.”

“We no longer have good options [in Iraq] ... only bad options and worse options,” he said Citing the economic toll the war has already taken, Obama declared the country cannot achieve its domestic goals while sending $100 billion a year overseas, and mentioned legislation that he introduced in January to begin withdrawing and redeploying troops by May 1 of this year.

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Denver Post: Barack Obama in Denver, Colorado Raising Money

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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