And the runner up is...

Submitted by markjohnson on October 1, 2008 - 8:13am.
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N.C. Democratic leaders pitched to get either U.S. Sen. Barack Obama or U.S. Sen. Joe Biden to speak at their annual Vance-Aycock dinner on Saturday in Asheville but apparently gave up on snaring their party's nominee for president or vice president.

They settled on Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen. Party officials announced the speaker on Tuesday. Obama and Biden haven't neglected the state, though. They appeared together in Greensboro last Saturday. Both have visited in recent weeks, and the campaign is pumping money and people into the state.

An appearance by Obama, the first black presidential nominee by a major party, would have been notable at a dinner named for Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock, a leading voice for the white supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900.

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Re: And the runner up is...

Submitted by FFC1304 on October 1, 2008 - 7:18am.

must be due to the gasoline shortage, which 'gov' sleazely has announced is over in WNC, while stations STILL have no gas...

but remember, NObama IS HALF white!...

Message to the V.A. dinnerguests: CORRUPT democrats have RUINED our ONCE great state!

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