U.S. Senator Barack Obama was howling with Colorado Democrats yesterday, according to the Rocky Mountain News. From the article, "Giddy Colorado Democrats embraced their party's emerging star Tuesday as he stumped for congressional candidate Ed Perlmutter and said the nation is hungry for new leadership.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told a crowd of about 1,300 people that during the past two weeks he has traveled to 15 states. Everywhere, he said, he hears the same thing. 'The country is in a serious mood,' he said. 'It's in a sober mood. People are tired of the slash-and-burn, sound-bite, lots-of-sound- and-fury-signifying-nothing style of politics. They are tired of small and timid politics. What they're looking for right now is someone who is willing to have a genuine conversation with them about the challenges we face as a nation.' Obama said he, by contrast, is optimistic, fueled by the hope that Democrats would get out the vote and flip the 15 seats needed to take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1994...
"Americans are hungry to earn a living wage and have affordable health care, Obama said. They are eager to stop funding both sides of the war in Iraq, to find an exit strategy and to find new sources of renewable energy."
Meanwhile Mike Littwin was on hand to observe the Obama phenomena. He writes, in his column in today's Rocky, "The Barack Obama love-fest tour came to Colorado. If you caught the act, you know why America has a crush on Obama. He's new. He's fresh. He's attractive. He's tall. He's quite tall. He's smart. You're guessing he feels your pain - or will by the time he runs for president. He's definitely got that -Tiger Woodsian-generational feel, and with a Harvard Law degree. It doesn't matter that no one, including Obama, has any real idea what kind of president he might actually make. Two weeks out from the end of another ugly political season, America needs a politician to love."
Here's the coverage from the Denver Post.
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