road team posts on the blog regularly, i just did one, you can read it here or go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog
Warriors in Missouri: On the road with Senator Joe Biden
Over a thousand students, teachers, union workers, elected officials and marching band members filled the classically outfitted gymnasium of Arnold, Missouri’s Fox High School. The Fox Warriors have won many a state championship in their day, and they certainly seem to be aiming for another victory on election day. This crowd was ready for Joe! He took time to shout out to the marching band & students as well as walk them through the major issues of the day. Starting with today’s news on the shrinking GDP and increasing gains for Exxon Mobil, he hit hard on the McCain-Palin economic plan. He called it upside down and contributing to the shrinking of the middle class.
“They’re not bad guys,” he said in light of Exxon Mobil’s record quarterly profits announced today, “they just don’t need a tax break, that 4 billion dollars should go to middle class tax payers.”
Watch this section of the speech here:
ok, i missed my chance to upload yesterday's photo file, but here's tonight's!
i am having such a good time taking photographs again, and i have both a wide and tele camera at my disposal. sorting through all the photos, hundreds after each event, between two or three events, on lurching buses, on rowdy planes, then making selects and using my blackberry bluetooth connection makes me feel like a print journalist, racing to submit, always racing. add the hvx slung around my neck and i look like a crazy person, i do. it’s really, really fun. plus, because of my hard pin and staff status, i get to stay when all the other press has to go. i get the run of the place, the buffer, backstage, anywhere. but job one is not imposing, it’s still, at the end of the day, always all about relationship.
outrageous! true!
go jt
my friend chris wrote the following and sent around this video to the campaign, thought you all might enjoy it: “If anyone needs a boost of encouragement about what we’re doing here, Barack gave a tremendous speech in the rain in Fredericksburg, VA over the weekend. Barack is soaked, people are using their “Change” signs as umbrellas, and it’s one of the best stumps I’ve seen in recent memory. Definitely worth 26 minutes of your time.”
