Barack Obama surprised more than 700 N.C. Democrats on Saturday night with an unscheduled appearance at the party's annual Vance-Aycock dinner.
"I hope you don't mind me crashing the party," the Democratic presidential candidate told an enthusiastic crowd in a ballroom at the Grove Park Inn. He was greeted with a prolonged ovation and shouts of "Yes, we can!" Some people stood on chairs for a better view.
Obama arrived in Asheville for a rally this afternoon and two days of quiet preparation for Tuesday's debate against Republican John McCain, Jim Morrill reports. It's Obama's third visit to the state in two weeks.
He alluded to his success in the state's May primary, when he soundly defeated Hillary Clinton.
"People said, 'What's he doing spending so much time in North Carolina?'" Obama said. "It turns out, the people of North Carolina decided they were going to lift up the Obama campaign. ... Maybe we should just keep on coming to North Carolina."
In remarks that lasted about 10 minutes, he gave a truncated version of the stump speech he delivered recently in Charlotte and Greensboro. He criticized the "failed policies" of the Bush administration, including a foreign policy he described as "talking tough but acting dumb."




Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party
Beverly Perdue is a liar …..“You can't trust her, I just call it like I see it” THESE ARE THE WORDS OF Joe Mavretic, the former DEMOCRATIC speaker of the NC house. Here is the video of Mr. Mavretic saying these words and explaining why he said it. The entire clip is 6 minutes long, forward it to 5 minutes if you just want to hear the part where he says WE CANT TRUST BEVERLY PERDUE!!!
***This is something you will only see on this blog!! Contact your local media and ask them why they haven’t said a word about this shocking clip!!