The Progressive Truth

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Obama Enters Presidential Race


From the NYT:

"Senator Barack Obama of Illinois stood on the steps of the Old State Capitol in this city of Abraham Lincoln on Saturday and, in a grandly choreographed announcement of his plan to seek the presidency, offered himself as the face of a new generation that would bring change to a government hobbled by cynicism, petty corruption and “a smallness of our politics.”