Obama crashes the Democratic party


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."

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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!!

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

"Meg Scott Phipps, Jim Black, Rep. Wright, Balance and his former judge son, should I go on?"

Uh, they already were thrown out...by the Democrats.

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

First Marine is right.

Obama's service as a community organizer was much more heroic and dangerous than McCain's military picnic! McCain was lounging around in some Hilton Hotel while the real fighting was going on!

Do you have any idea the strain of community organizing? Do you even know what it is? Does anyone know what it is?

But I would guess community organizing would involve a whole bunch of coffee drinking. Was Starbucks in business during Obama's community organizing days? How could you ever sit through all those organizing meetings without good coffee?

Obama is the real hero here.

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

Yep, 100+ years of total democrackkk domination in NC has yielded us a state that is more CORRUPT than Louisiana or New Jersey! Throw the bahstads OUT in 2008! Dont EVER vote for another corrupt democrackkk in NC!!!

Re: Here we go again...

AlGore was the one that first brought Willie Horton into the public eye, but that was OK, right?

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

The Republicans are getting desperate. Palin's allegations of Obama "partying with terrorists..." etc Forget her. Let's look at McCain. All facts described in his own book, or independently verifiable.
http://www.truthout.org/100508A
"In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot. "

"...His grandfather's name and his father's forbearance brought McCain a charmed existence at Annapolis. On his first trip at sea - to Rio de Janeiro aboard the USS Hunt - the captain was a former student of his father. While McCain's classmates learned the ins and outs of the boiler room, McCain got to pilot the ship to South America and back. In Rio, he hobnobbed with admirals and the president of Brazil. " "In the cockpit, McCain was not a top gun, or even a middling gun. He took little interest in his flight manuals; he had other priorities.

"I enjoyed the off-duty life of a Navy flier more than I enjoyed the actual flying," McCain writes. "I drove a Corvette, dated a lot, spent all my free hours at bars and beach parties." McCain chased a lot of tail. He hit the dog track. Developed a taste for poker and dice. He picked up models when he could, screud a stripper when he couldn't.

In the air, the hard-partying McCain had a knack for stalling out his planes in midflight. He was still in training, in Texas, when he crashed his first plane into Corpus Christi Bay during a routine practice landing. ..."

Correction - Fayetteville

Sen. Obama was in Fayetteville...he spoke at FTCC. Sen. Clinton spoke in Fayetteville twice, once at Methodist (as you said), and once at Terry Sanford High School.

Sen. Obama has had a Medal of Honor recipient speak in Fayetteville twice.

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

Paul Terrell continues his effective campaign to get destroyed by his Democratic opponent because all he does is hang out here. Thanks for giving up, Paul.

Re: Obama crashes the Democratic party

LOl you Obama supporters kill me. Uh we do need change in North Carolina. It is time to kick out the corrupt Democrats from power in NC. Meg Scott Phipps, Jim Black, Rep. Wright, Balance and his former judge son, should I go on?

The mental healthcare disaster, failing schools, crumbling newly built roads, and all of the corruption coming from state government and the State Ethicss Commission. Heck they have been rebuilding major parts of I-540 right after redoing parts of I-40 west of here and around Goldsboro. Another mental hospital is losing funding and a judge has told Secretary benton he is WRONG, the new hospital is not ready and please quit applying bills from the new hospital to the old account at Dix. That is called fraud by the way.

This crap coming from the 5 or 6 Democrats running state government will not end until we vote out the people suporting them. VOTE REPUBLICAN IN NC!

Paul Terrell III- State House 33 candidate
http://terrellforhouse33.blogspot.com

Re: Here we go again...

I could not agree more.

I only hope that the Republicans will exercise the same restraint that have the Democrats when discussing Sarah Palin. The Democrats have shown their high standards in their fair and balanced treatment of Sarah Palin. Hopefully the Republicans will respond in kind.

Re: Here we go again...

Can you hear the Swift Boats revving? See the ghost of Willie Horton stalking behind the strip mall?

What incredible nonsense is being bandied about here. It would be beneath serious comment, except for the fact that it illustrates a larger theme. The McCain campaign has decided that they can't succeed in debating the economy, and they can't win by selling their candidate on his merits. They admit it, in almost those exact words, in comments to reporters nationally now.

Instead, look for the next 30 days to bring a non-stop cascade of increasingly viscious, remarkably vacuous character attacks on Obama. The Karl Rove scorched-earth strategy of completely poisoning campaign debate will be in full screaming cry.

Haven't we had enough? We see the results of this poison in Washington, and on Main Streets around the nation. It's time for real change, and only Obama is bringing it.

Obama supports putting older Cary NC business out of business!

The last poster made some statements that prove my point.

1. Is there parking at the Obama Headquarters? YES. Unlike the Cary small business (Shuttles Needles Hooks) the Obama Headquarters has an entire parking lot! Plus, there are two parking lots across the street (BB & T and strip mall lot).

2. Why park directly in front of a small business? You guys may be a temporary neighbor BUT you are a bad neighbor.

3. You would prefer older citizens to park far away and walk? But the Obama supporters who use the spots right in front of her shop are much younger and would have less trouble walking. Nice of you guys at Obama Headquarters!

4. Take the complaint to the city? Why cannot people work things about instead of relying on government? What exact change does Obama want?

Re: Hey Obama, come crash the Cary NC Headquarters

let's see:

1. is there parking in front of the headquarters? if not, and the parking is only on the side of street as the store, she's gonna lose parking, not only from ppl going the the dem's hq, but also to ANYONE ELSE who doesn't have parking, or just b/c ppl see an open spot. i bet good money she's lost spots to just that - ppl seeing an open spot. it's just happening more often now that the dem's hq is very active across the street from her store.

2. the older customers may not like to walk to her store, but you can't complain if you don't take a chance. i mean, just b/c all spots are taken, doesn't mean that the store is crowded.

3. if the lady wants "her" spots back (the supporter was right, she DOES NOT own the road) she can either wait til the election is over, or take her complaint to the city.

my complaint is that for all of the postering that the pol's have been saying about helping the military, the ONLY person who's come to fayetteville, was hillary. she was at methodist univ this past spring. now she's a methodist so to have her rally there was a bit of a no brainer. but at least she was here!

Re: Hey Obama, come crash the Cary NC Headquarters

I wish that Obama had come to Cary and "crashed" the good work supporters are doing at the Obama Headquarters on Chatham Street in Cary.

Since Obama frequently claims that he is very concerned about the middle class and small businesse. As such, I would expect that Obama would be very disappointed that his supporters park their vehicles *all day long" in front of a Cary small business (Shuttles, Needles and Hooks) and then meet all day across the street from Shuttles at the Obama Headquarters.

Shuttles has been in business for 19 years and is owned by an older woman who is trying to care for her husband with cancer and supplement their social security with the tiny amount she earns by running Shuttles.

The owner of Shuttles loses business whenever Obama supporters park in front of her shop.
1. Many Shuttles customers are older citizens and drive by when they see no parking places in front of the shop.

2, They do not stop either because they physically cannot get into the shop OR because the older customers are concerned that they shop will be too crowded for them to get assistance with their questions.

The Shuttles owner tried to explain the problem to an Obama supporter who was parking in front of her shop and she would lose business. The Obama supporter told the owner "You don't own the road."

Customers of Shuttles have even gone over to the Obama headquarters to explain the problem. Obama supporters do not care if they are hurting a small business. And that's a reflection of Barack Obama himself.

Shame on Obama and his supporters in Cary. What "change" do they want? The "change" to put a older Cary small business woman out of business?