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- Obama in his own words. No media spin. Uncensored. 100% accurate.
- Not just quotes or sound bytes but the full text of every speech, in context.
- Up-to-date and current. Even includes his 2007 presidential announcement.
- Two of his most notable speeches before he became a U.S. Senator: the 2002 Speech against the Iraq war and his 2004 Speech at the Democratic National Convention.
- Transcripts of Obama’s podcasts, including those called in from his cell phone while traveling in the Middle East and Iraq.
Seven of Obama’s inspirational commencement addresses.
- All of Obama’s major Senate floor statements since he became a U.S. Senator.
- Keynote addresses at high-profile events like the Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award, the National Press Club Dinner, World AIDS Day, his visit to the University of Nairobi, the AFL-CIO convention and much more.
- His talks marking the occasions of the Death of Rosa Parks, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Groundbreaking and the Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series win.

Here is the direct link to “Best Speeches of Barack Obama” 2007 Edition. It’s a PDF and is 515 pages so can take a few minutes to download!

“I Got a Crush…On Obama” By Obama Girl.

Obama campaign song featuring Obama Girl by BarelyPolitical.com. Add her to your Myspace!

I heart Barack Obama President 2008!

So were you among the 15,000 or so people  in Illinois on Saturday to  witness Obama’s announcement? Did you  watch the live streaming webcast?

I was lazy and didn’t feel like getting up early to watch myself, so I watched it yesterday at my leisure.  It’s 30+ minutes long, however, most of it wasn’t speech, but rather music over top of watching Obama smile, wave, and shake hands before and after his speech. Honestly, I think the music may have been my favorite part. Their choice of songs was amusing and had me laughing.

While listening, I also signed up for “My” BarackObama.com account.  The Obama campaign has been criticized in the past for having a lame non-interactive site.  Well, it seems someone’s taken note and produced the most community oriented interactive campaign sites I’ve ever seen (okay, I don’t visit many politicians’ websites, but still!)

The new Barack Obama site is set up like a social networking site à la Myspace/LiveJournal. You can create a profile and network with people in your local area, invite friends to join, blog (I think I’ll keep my Today.com blog), find out about local events, and I suppose most importantly to Obama: FUNDRAISE by creating a fundraising goal page and then email all your friends begging for contributions on Obama’s behalf in order to watch your fundraising goal bar inch up.

Oh and any new hip politician site isn’t complete without their very OWN BLOG.  Keep an eye on it for the latest updates!

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Senator Obama will be making a speech about his plans for the future in Springfield, Illinois on Saturday morning.

We are all invited to watch a live video feed of the event on BarackObama.com, which will be a brand new site in the morning.

Here are the details:

Live Video Feed from Springfield, Illinois
10:55 AM Eastern / 9:55 AM Central / 8:55 AM Mountain / 7:55 AM Pacific
http://www.barackobama.com

Veterans groups and Sen. Barack Obama say government officials are obscuring the actual number of wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars by leaving out of some public documents troops who suffer non-combat injuries.

…the number of wounded in the wars often circulated publicly is around 23,000.

That number only accounts for those wounded in combat. When troops from those wars who were wounded in other ways are counted, the number more than doubles, to about 53,000.

“It doesn’t make a difference whether you were hit by enemy fire, or injured because your vehicle crashed, or got sick because of serving in a war zone,” Obama said in a statement. “The effects on the soldiers and their families are the same. And the impact in terms of the current fighting force and future demands on the VA are also the same.”

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Harowo, .S. Senator Barack Obama Visits Counterterrorism Force Base In Djibouti