Obama on Pennsylvania bus tour
After a brief respite in the Virgin Islands, a rally in North Carolina, and a little fund-raising in New York, Barack Obama returns to Pennsylvania Friday for a six-day bus tour, his campaign announced today.
Despite Pennsylvania's high-stakes primary on April 22, Obama has not campaigned aggressively in the Keystone State in the two weeks since the March 11 contest in Mississippi. His most visible appearance so far was his big speech in Philadelphia last week on race.
The bus tour kicks off in Western Pennsylvania, home to Pittsburgh, and concludes in the southeast part of the state, where Philadelphia is located. Obama's campaign says he will "continue his dialogue with voters about the need to change Washington in order to tackle challenges like creating jobs, improving our schools and making health care available to every American."
That suggests Obama, as he tries to close Hillary Clinton's wide lead in polls, will continue holding more intimate policy-oriented events with voters, which have increasingly become part of a campaign calendar once dominated by big, boisterous rallies.
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Can we try to be careful about the use of the word 'boy'...
Barack Obama is about 48 years old. That means he is a man. Calling him a boy is either old school racism or ignorance. Maybe you are young and ignorant. Hope it is ignorance on your part. If so, study some history before you write another article.
The boy???? What is this, 1953 in the Jim Crow South?
Mr. Helman:
Are you too young to know that using the term BOY to describe a Black Man is offensive?
The Boy? He's a Senator and a grown man.
The Boy is a grown man and U.S. Senator. I suspect you're more of a 'boy' than Barack Obama.
I think your term "boy" in the headline is tasteless.
The boy's back on the bus? The last time I saw Sen. Obama he was a man! What's going on describing the Senator as a boy, I think he deserves the respect and dignity to be labeled what he is--a man!
The term "boy" is a tasteless and provocative attempt at sensationalism.
Mr Helman, you are a race baiting a-hole. You should be fired. There is no
place for you or people like you. If you want to compete with a pig like James
Carville, join the monsters campaign.
Fran Villa -- Thank you for your Hillary commercial that has nothing to do with the topic of this blog. Thank you for reminding us that Hillary has been around and around and around . . . and has therefore lost the openness of mind (or "plasticity of mind" as the psychologists say) that allows new thinking and true change to occur.
Before everyone gets upset about the "boy" headline, I think the reference is to a book named "Boys on the Bus," which is about the the traveling press covering the 1972 McGovern campaign:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_on_the_Bus
Good post #12. Everyone take a chill pill on the race issue. It's not like the title of the article was "Boy in the Back of the Bus" Give it a rest already.
I live in PA and want to know where I can go to see Obama. It strikes me as odd that on late Friday (the day the tour starts) there is no schedule for the weekend --- or beyond. I'll surely vote for the guy (man), but sheez, where is the plan?
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