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OBAMA!

I was infact elated when I was contacted in February and asked if I could find a place in Cedar Hill for the Obama Campaign to set up their Southern Dallas County H/Q.
I contacted a builder in the community, Wes Pool who was more than glad to donate office and storage space in one of his businesses. When the Obama team came
for a visit, a conversation led to their deciding to locate in my house since it already had wireless internet and lots of outlets. So here came folks from all over the
country to camp at our house. It was exciting to watch these young men and women work from sun up until 2 am the next morning and up again at 7 am the next
morning. Training and distribution was done out of our living room and garage. Here are some pictures of some persons we caught when we were at home along with
election night fotos.

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Barack Obama shows amazing grace MIKE LUPICA
Wednesday, March 19th 2008, 4:00 AM
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LOS ANGELES - Barack Obama talked about race Tuesday in Philadelphia - talked about it in a way he should have long before this. It was only one of the best speeches, in its best moments
about race, any man or woman running for the highest office in this land has given lately.Obama stood at the National Constitution Center and talked about race as it really is, the third rail in this
country, the exposed conductor that does not change even in a time like this, with the war in Iraq about to go past 4,000 American casualties, with the casualty that the economy has become under
George W. Bush. Obama talked about race in this way because he had to, because it was time, not just because his pastor from Chicago had said things in his church for which Obama was now
forced to apologize, a church Obama ought to think about quitting. In the process Obama said more than most of the other candidates in this campaign have said in a year and that stands today
whether you think it should be him or Hillary Clinton to run against John McCain in November. Even though Obama has to know that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's good works aren't enough for
him to beat the rap on the hateful and divisive things he has said about race in America. It doesn't work that way. In Philadelphia on Tuesday, Barack Obama said, "I am the son of a black man from
Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a depression to serve in Patton's army during World War II and a white grandmother who
worked on a bomber assembly line in Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations." Obama said, "I am
married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners - an inheritance we pass on to our precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and
cousins of every race and hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible." He said, "If we walk away
now [from the subject of race], if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together." On this day he reminded you once again that he is the one running for
President. Not his wife, not his pastor. He runs not just out of Chicago and not just out of the Rev. Wright's church on the South Side, but out of being black in America. It is why, so far into this
process, you still don't know how it will go for him, whether he even gets the nomination. We know from the results from all the primaries and caucuses that black voters in this country are ready
to elect the first African-American candidate, especially one with this much game. What we do not know, despite all the polls, polls where people lie routinely when asked about race, is whether or
not white America is ready to do the same. Bill Clinton was on "Good Morning America" with Robin Roberts the other day saying that the media misrepresented what he said about Jesse Jackson
and Obama in South Carolina. No, we did not. We understood him perfectly. Black guy won South Carolina twice, another black guy wins now, what's the news? With a single line, Clinton, who
was a hero himself to black voters, shows you his cards, race and otherwise, when he thinks the nomination might go to someone other than his wife. At the finish Tuesday from Obama was the
story he told about a young white woman named Ashley Baia, who organized for his campaign in Florence, S.C. About how Ashley Baia fought amazingly across her young life to make a better
world for a mother stricken by cancer and by poverty in America. One day in South Carolina, she told her story to some voters, then went around the room and asked why other people there were
supporting Obama's campaign. Finally, Obama said in his speech Tuesday, she came to an elderly black man. And when asked why he was there, he did not talk about Iraq or the economy or health
care or education. Or even about Barack Obama. "I am here because of Ashley," the old man said. Obama's speech Tuesday was about race, about young whites and old blacks. But it was more than
that. It was not a perfect speech. He has said that he is not a perfect candidate, and maybe he has no chance to beat McCain even if he holds on against Hillary Clinton. It does not change something:
There were things Obama said Tuesday that nobody has said as eloquently since the Rev. King.