Barack Obama Speaks To Crowd Of 100,000 In Denver
By Nicole Belle Monday Oct 27, 2008 5:45amBarack Obama spoke in front of another enormous crowd about the honoring the battles and work of our forefathers by participating in the democracy.
We can do this. Americans have done this before. Some of us had grandparents or parents who said maybe I can't go to college but my child can; maybe I can't have my own business but my child can. I may have to rent, but maybe my children will have a home they can call their own. I may not have a lot of money but maybe my child will run for Senate. I might live in a small village but maybe someday my son can be president of the United States of America.
Now it falls to us. Together, we cannot fail. And I need you to make it happen. If you want the next four years looking like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change – if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs; if you want health care you can afford and education that helps your kids compete; then I ask you to knock on some doors, make some calls, talk to your neighbors, and give me your vote. In Colorado, you can vote early right here, and right now. To find out how, just go to voteforchange.com. And if you stand with me in nine days, I promise you – we will win Colorado, we will win this election, and then you and I – together – will change this country and change this world.
The full speech and pictures of the impressive crowd at BarackObama.com
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I was there yesterday, and it was incredible! The energy was amazing and it left me very hopeful that CO will go blue this year....
I wish I could see him speak at an event like that.
Saw him at the Fort Collins rally later in the afternoon. The energy was also amazing. 45,000 all together there. Since the announcement (Friday) the whole town has been buzzing with anticipation. People lined up as early as 5 am for a 3:30 speech. The line to get in was 2 miles long. I still have my doubts about Colorado going blue, but it's a very good possibility.
Here was a rally for Sarah Palin in Colorado:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
The people at the rally have bought Palin's and McCain's lies about Obama hook, line and sinker.
And just in case ya'll haven't heard about this blatant attempt Bush is making to steal Ohio for McCain, here's the link:
http://www.alternet.org/election08/104735/jus...
I'm having a phone banking bash at my house this Saturday for Obama/Biden to call swing voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania. If any of you can't find an event for phone banking close to you, organize your own!! I'm providing coffee, a few pastry thingees and I have jokingly told those who are attending that I'll even provide Aspirin for their Halloween hangovers. Ha!!
I love to listen to Barack; such a refreshing change from the tortured English of the last 8 years.
Even if he wins I am afraid he is being intentionally saddled with so much baggage that his first term will be a very diffcult ride with the Repukes hounding him all the way.
Then lets hope that the Democrats get a majority in both the House and the Senate.
The GOP is cannibalizing itself all over the country...not just the McSpain/Plain campaign.
....don't even acknowledge their party affiliation in their pathetic commericals...cowards!
That's happenin all over the country!
Ya know it's a bad sign (for the GOP) when they don't claim their party affiliation, lol!
Bastards!
You'd think that a state that is supposed to vote straight down Republican, they'll run on that ticket.
I heard an ad for a candidate... it never said his affiliation. However, he opposed gay marriage, gay adoption (I guess gay kids can't be adopted) and is supported by the NRA... I took a guess which party he's affiliated with.
Ashamed of their own putrid party.
Amen.
It's not just Bush's mangled English and odd speech habits, it's the sheer idiocy of a man who is proud of his ignorance.
McCain/Palin offers more of the same. Surely, someone corrected ol' Maverick after he made his 'overhead projector' comment. And Sarah's quip about studying fruit flies during her 'policy' speech - come on, that's a rookie mistake from high school debate class.
With a troubled economy and a foreign policy that has proven disastrous, we simply cannot afford another term of leaders who don't give a s***.
rocky mountain high -colorado
Oh, that was at the McCain/Palin Rally.
Nevermind.
...I'm getting the same feeling about these last eight days...
Your telling me, I'm not sure I can hold my breath that long, but that's what it feels like.
My understanding is that Obama bought 30 minutes of airtime for a major speech on CNN, MSNBC and they even agreed to move the World Series game on Fox back 30 minutes to sell him time right before the election.
Is this still happening??
Appreciate the feedback.
I think he bought the time on stations that aren't cable channels like for example NBC, CBS etc. I'm not sure exactly which ones, but it will be great for people who do not have cable. They'll get to hear and see him too.
And these liars try to characterize Obama as an elitist...absolute bullshit. Dumbya, Chenney, Rice, McCorpse, none of those fools believe in or speak to us common folk.
I could vote early!
We can in Florida and I swear I got so excited about casting my vote. It felt so good!
It felt great to vote for Obama, to approve the continuation of gay/lesbian marriage in the state and to vote for animal farmers to have to allow all animals in the future to have room to turn in their cages etc. (placed on the ballot by The Humane Society....should pass overwhelmingly!)
I like the fact that California has the Initiative process. "Direct democracy" is a great thing in which to participate!
he he mccains on cnn and msnbc at a rally guess news is news not a campaine event for the repukes in the hall of the mountain king, colorado
Let's hope that we can get lots of people into the streets after McCain and Little Miss Hitler are dieboldized into the Whitehouse.
Obama's gonna win HUGE!
http://snipurl.com/4nsrk
Stealing the election won't be so simple this go 'round!
Thanks for the link.
I won't breathe easy until Obama is sworn in.
I've never been so anxious about an election in my life.
I'm opening a bottle of forty year old scotch if Obama wins it.
I ain't gonna breathe easy until then either...
yeah...anxious...and excited as hell...
I'm opening whatever type of alcohol I can afford on unemployment WHEN Obama wins!
After saying that i wonder if they were the one's respnsible?
Or govt. officials symapthetic to the campaign?
I don't think Obamas people would be that dumb.
Could have been anybody, but the McCain people always go off half cocked before the facts are in. They would Nuke Iran before breakfast and then blame Israel at lunch.
With their history it would not surprise me if they were involved in it.
I'm not saying that Obama and his campaign people are squeaky clean...but damn if they don't seem like it...
The McSpain camp...buncha damn criminals and filthy lobbyists...the whole lot of 'em!
I was glad to have left the house at 6:15am to get a spot in line. We live downtown. I shudder to think how early others woke up and stood painfully still for hours. Wow was it worth it! While we unfortunately were not savvy enough avoid the teleprompter's obstruction of the podium, the event was spectacular. It was a fantastic fall day, and Obama's message of change rang through downtown (even over the state house carillon chimes at 12:15). Hopefully, the energy will get/keep people involved for the last week of the campaign.
He spoke directly to the people, and didn't even have to use that fake, "My friends" crap that McLame has to pull out of his pocket as the beginning to every other sentence. The other ones begin with "Joe the Plumber."
It's refreshing to see and hear actual intelligence and thoughtfulness in this process.
Obama/Biden '08
Last week I read that Obama had an office in Alamosa, I couldn't believe it.
Today in an op-ed by E.J. Dionne I came across this nugget -
"They have offices in places that have never seen a presidential campaign," she said in an interview, pointing to the campaign's work in Immokalee, a heavily Latino community in the Everglades area.
It doesn't get more "Real America" than Alamosa , and Immokalee.
Wow, that's impressive. Immokalee is in the middle of nowhere.
He's always upbeat when he talks about what we can all do together. When McCain speaks, he only talks about what he will do and what he knows how to do. Obama speaks with us and McCain speaks about himself.
I just listened to a McCain speech and it left me feeling down and depressed when he was finished. Obama's speeches always have just the opposite effect on me.
What a great experience to hear Obama speak. Lucky you guys. It will be interesting to watch McIdon'twantobehere, in the next few days. If Brokaw said he looked tired...
The GOP have probably got their final solution to steal the election in progress right now.
"Oh, Obama, can this really be the end,
to be stuck here in this voting booth,
with this diebold machine again."
Well, McCain, he's in the gutter
With his racism and his fear,
Speaking to some Caribou girl,
Who says I’ll go to Hell!.
And I would ask her a question
To find out if she's smart,
But she’s not taking questions
And the media has been balked...
Obama, can this really be the end,
to be stuck here in this voting booth,
with this diebold machine again.
Oh, Johnny, can this really be the end?
Run amok in Nieman Marcus with Johnny's AmEx again.
(Bob!)
oh god make it stop! palin hurts muh head ,
Palin is giving a speech right now and it sounds more like a small town high school pep rally than a vice presidential speech. Everything she says, the crowd repeats it in a chant. It's bizarre. They are doing the Joe the plumber thing with lots of different names and occupations. That horse they are beating the hell out of is so dead.
LEAVE JOE THE PLUMBER ALOOOONE!
.....here in Philly we have a new hero: JOE the PITCHER!
Barack Obama is terrific at stirring up the passions of a crowd but the [alleged] anti-war candidate remains silent regarding United States aggression to other countries. The US attacked the town of al-Sukkariya in Syria which killed at least 8 and wounded 14 others. In all likelihood Obama will proclaim that Bush was wrong in ordering this unprovoked on Syria but that if he were president he would be able to [somehow] "manage" those attacks better than his Republican rival.
Yesterday 24 Afghans were killed who were guarding a road construction project in an attempt to ward off a Taliban attack. On Wednesday, a US air strike in Khost province destroyed an Afghan army checkpopint, killing nine soldiers. It is highly unlikely that the [alleged] anti-war candidate will be speaking out against these outrages since he is quite keen on escalating the war in Afghanistan if he is elected president.
On Sunday a US drone missile attacked a village in Pakistan killing at least 20 people. This is the 2nd reported US drone strike in the past few days. On Thursday morning, an air strike on a religious school killed 10 Pakistanis. Since Obama, the alleged] anti-war candidate, has come out in favor of the US invading the sovereign territory of Pakistan, it is highly unlikely if the [alleged] anti-war candidate will condemn this latest atrocity by the United States.
One could only wish that a third party or independent or [god forbid] a socialist candidate would do what the two major presidential candidates refuse to do and that is to flood the corporate airwaves with ads and messages condemning these latest incident of imperialism and war crimes conducted by the United States.
We are not there yet. One step at a time.
In normal times I would vote Socialist.
Obama is not my choice; I prefer Kucinich.
Considering the stakes, I feel that voting for Obama is the best way to protect and serve my country and the Constitution.
I've voted Democratic since Shrub first ran.
I don't much like it.
But reality can be a real bummer.
I agree, Mick. I've voted Democratic since 1980, although not always because I liked the candidate. I'm a Kucinich supporter, but Obama is certainly the better of the 2 remaining candidates. McCain is showing himself to be like all the rest of the repugs: a shill for big business and the rich.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
There is no choice here. This was, is, and always will have been a NO BRAINER.
It's time for a change. A change away from rhetoric with no substance. A change away from politics but no policy. A change away from leveraging power against not only the weakest among us, but against the people who actually pay the freight in this country.
Enough is enough.
Obama's Saturday rally at UNM in Albuquerque also drew a huge crowd. The news estimates were anywhere between 35,000 and 50,000 people (for reference: Kerry won on the order of 300,000 votes in NM in 2004 and lost by < 6,000 votes). It was an incredible turnout.
What's even better is many of those who came to hear Obama speak had either already voted or went to vote while waiting for the rally to begin (UNM is an early polling location for Bernallio county)! :-D
My guess is that, after the Republicans steal this election, the punchline will be delivered by John McCain: "Don't blame me... I voted for that one."
I awake every morning lately feeling very positive about the race, then as the day goes by I become more and more anxious. I start thinking about the election being ripped off again or whatever evil plans might be out there. I wish we could just fast forward to next Wednesday morning and wake up to the news telling us the election is over and Obama won by a landslide. I think I will dance outside in my nightgown if that happens.
...for you: every time tyou start to get anxious, go back, find that
Les Misbarack youtube video and listen to that, One More Day!
Eroll, I'm aware of the Syria attacks by the US, a couple and their child were killed in a lonely farmhouse near the border. I'm aware of the US drones attacking Nth Pakistan, also the suicide bombings in Iraq, and not a day doesn't go by when I dont think of the 4,5000 plus young US military who died in an illegal war. But don't you see it's the Bush regime who are ramping it up for some kind of final solution in the dying days of his presidency, under the distraction of the election. You can't compare that with the radical withdrawing of troops from Iraq proposed by Obama. No leader can be completely anti-war, that's untenable. But you can't put Bush and Obama's defense strategies in the same category.Interesting how everyone is down on Russia for moving into Georgia to defend Russian citizens in Ossetia, when the US are invading countries everyday and have done for decades.
Viola
I remember during something called the Vietnam War when LBJ said that he would not allow American boys to fight in a war which Asian boys should be fighting. He ended up eventually ordering 500,000 Americans into that quagmire. But Obama is not even offering that pretense. You say that these attacks are Bush's fault. Is that supposed to somehow let Obama off the hook for not speaking out against these atrocities?
You claim that Obama is "radically" removing troops from Iraq. I suggest that you may wish to attempt to tell that to an American family whose loved one returns to this country maimed and crippled and/or in a body bag because of Obama's [alleged] radical withdrawal plan which is stretched out over a 16 month period of time. You say that "No leader can be completely anti-war". No, we cannot have a candidate actually stand on principle instead of playing it safe in order to get elected.
I simply it stunning that you can claim that you are aware of these incidents of aggression which seemingly offends your sensibilities but yet you then attempt to somehow rationalize why Obama is not condemning these blatant examples that I listed of United States aggression and imperialism. This is the choice that so many Americans are led to believe that they have in this election between an overt war monger and yet again another Democrat who will claim that he is against war but that he is somehow capable of handling it better than his rival. Of course, the fact that Afghans, Syrians and Pakistanis are getting blown up and ripped apart is of little concern apparently to Obama's supporters and especially to Obama himself. As another commenter has stated "One step at a time." If only Obama and his loyal band of followers could remember the words of Henry Clay when he stated: "I would rather be right than president."
And i would rather have an intelligent President.
Basically moving troops out of Iraq (where the Iraqi's have made it clear they are not wanted anyhow), and moving them into Afghanistan!
Ask the Russians about fighting in Afghanistan. I saw a recent film clip of our soldiers getting hammered by those wacko Taliban warlord nuts! They have so many secret caves and the terrain there is so practically uninhabitable that we will get ourselves involved in a quagmire that, I believe, will be worse than Vietnam. THIS is what Obama and Brezenski want for the U.S. military.
And sadly, and this isn't just my opinion, all this will cause is more terrorist "blowback" against us. Sending troops into Afghanistan and now Pakistan too (where we are not wanted) will not serve the security of the people of the United States one f'ing whit. Whether we are at home or traveling abroad.
I'm hoping once Obama is elected he will listen to Colin Powell (the war criminal who happens to be right about the fact Russia did NOT attack Georgia!) and that he will take the advise of the various military leaders who understand we should get OUT of the Middle East and stop with the nation building and stealing of natural resources already. Believe it or not, there ARE military higher-ups who will be happy to see the militaristic Neocons go away. They are tired of shedding the blood of their troops in illegal military invasions and occupations! The whole notion of pre-emptive first strikes that are internationally illegal needs to stop. I hope and pray Obama will look at the world anew if he is elected POTUS. (An honest investigation into 9/11 certainly couldn't hurt).
Read Jim Kunstler's "Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle" today at Kunstler.com if you want to see what's coming down the pike. Obama will have bigger fish to fry here at home. We need to call our military dogs off and take care of business here!
Kindly explain, if you can, the intelligence behind Obama, as an [alleged] anti-war candidate, advocating attacks against Iran and Pakistan. Can you actually attempt to defend the intelligence behind Obama's vote for the FISA bill even though he initially opposed it? Or Obama's voting, like McCain, for the bailout package of Wall Street? Or the intelligence behind Obama's desire to leave approximately 50,000 troops in Iraq as well as 100,000 civilian contractors [which would include the infamous para military organization Blackwater] even after his phased [as opposed to immediate] withdrawal plan is finally completed. Would that somehow mollify the fear and hatred that Iraqis already have toward the United States? I think not. Or the [alleged] intelligence of escalating the war in Afghanistan which will then add to the misery and suffering of the Afghan people? Or do their concerns not count because their faces are brown?
The above questions certainly do not indicate any kind of concern and compassion by the [alleged] peace candidate who keeps mentioning how he was against the Iraq War resolution while rarely if ever stating how he has continuously voted to fund the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq despite the fact, as Kucinich has tried to point out, that there is already enough money to provide for the welfare of the troops. It would appear that the only kind of intellectual thought that concerns Obama is the type that will put him in the White House.
...a hundred FUCKING years.
Lonely being a genius and stuff, isn't it?
In 2003, the US military INVADED Iraq, a sovereign nation that was no threat to the US and that has resulted in the murder of 300,000 Iraqi civilians (UN figures). There was no justification according to international law for this INVASION -- e.g., self-defense -- and, additionally, only Congress can declare war according to the constitution and it did not. The only rational assessment of this unilateral military AGGRESSION is that the US is guilty of an international crime that is the equivalent of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Nazi invastion of Poland, as two glaring examples. The inaccurate use of certain linguistic terms -- in this case, "war" -- muddles all discussion of real and important events and, in the end, provides a smokescreen for manial despots and the ignorant masses who support their incursions.
The Left side of the internet will probably be silent the day after the election. We'll either be crying too much to type or we will be so relieved that we'll pass out.
I don't normally disagree with you, but in this case i have to.
If Obama "loses" the internet and the streets will be quite noisy.
Same thing when he wins. :)
I'll be off Tuesday and Wednesday and I'm going to try not to get arrested.
dont think that will be a problem!
....to help the Obama campaign try to win in that "Klansmen paradise" state of yours. Lol.
dont bother l and l we got enough agitaters here ! but your welcome as long as you wipe your feet before intering ! and leave the slappy jack at home!
If Obama wins. For me, IF he wins, it will feel like New Year's Day!
If he loses I'll be busy making signs for a demonstration....probably in NYC in my case. (Hey! Any excuse to go to the city for lunch at Carnegie Deli, right!!)
POP...what's your address. ; 0 )
KIDDDING!!
On the same day he drew 50,000 in the small college town of Fort Collins (population 120,000). Simply amazing!
Get out and vote early if you can people. We don't just want a victory we want a trouncing!
I was gonna vote last week, but couldn't.
I am gonna go today by gawd!
I saw this speech in C-bus a couple of weeks ago. Thousands of people showed up. It was fantastic. If you get a chance to go see him, do it, but get there about an hour and a half early or you won't be able to see. I got there plenty early and was about 50 feet from the microphone.
Is that number correct? 100,00 thousand? That seems a bit high, but whatever.
Look at the pictures at the campaign link in the original post. You'll see how large the crowds were.
and the event there was a lot less historical (or as emotionally provocative) than any Obama rally.
Georgia started in person absentee balloting on 22 Sept. I went over to the courthouse and voted that day. I had about a 30 minute wait. Last week, it was being reported that the wait was a couple of hours.
This week Georgia opens up its early voting and will open many more polling stations.
And people are still linging up to vote.
So glad I voted early. Randy and Kris had to vote absentee but they have already sent in their ballots.
... when he called Barack "transformational."
We won't see somebody of his caliber for a long while.
What a contrast not only to McGramps and Moosegirl, but to the wastrel Wanton Boy himself -- the eternal template for silver-spoon, blue-blooded stupidity, venality, incompetence and cronyism.
In my spare time i've been constructing this time capzle all about Obama to help people that don't really know where he comes from can get a really good look for them selfs.
http://www.capzles.com/ff8fc5bc-de7c-40ee-bdb...
I wish he would come and visit Norway sometime! I am an American earning a living here and I would love to see him become the next president of the United States. This man is such a powerful speaker he almost brings tears to my eyes with his speeches. His message of change far exceeds McCain and the stance of the GOP. He sounds so presidential and convincing. If you have had the chance to see him, then I really envy you!
Please, please, please vote for Barack Obama! As an Australian I know that his presidency will be good for the international community and Australia too. He spent time in the region and knows more about it than McCain and Palin combined (Not saying much there... when did Palin get her first passport by the way?).
Obama in the preferred candidate among world citizens by almost 4:1
http://www.gallup.com/poll/111253/World-Citiz...
PLEASE VOTE!!!
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