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Obama: The closing argument

 

Published 10/27/2008 by Carrie Dann at First Read

"Obama is giving what his campaign calls the 'closing argument' of his presidential bid in Ohio, where he already lost once this year, to fellow Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope,' Obama said in prepared comments released in advance early Monday by his campaign....( read more ) (link)

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