That is the headline on the Cincinnati, Enquirer.These headlines are showing across the nation -- Austin, LA, Iowa, Cleveland, and the list goes on. The local headlines are all about the huge crowds Senator Obama is drawing. Unusual for this early in the campaign. Along with the large crowds small donations are being collected. This is truly a grassroots campaign and a campaign like no other.
About 1,000 Obama supporters – including a handful of Republicans – crammed the main ballroom at the Westin. There weren’t enough seats at the tables to go around.Dozens had to stand through the breakfast, lining the ballroom walls. It was an unusually large fundraising event for Cincinnati, which spoke to the star power Obama carries. Former President Clinton drew only 600 to a downtown hotel last October when he appeared at a fundraiser for John Cranley’s congressional campaign.
Something amazing is happening all across the United States. Thousands of people are congregating to hear a black man with a foreign name speak. OhBama!, OhBama! From LA to Cleveland crowds cheer. Americans are hungry for a leader who will lead them out of the darkness brought on them by the divisive Bush Administration.
Senator Barack Obama is changing the face of politics and the face America – he is the new face America wants to put forward to the world. Gone is the polarizing image of "with us or against us". It is being replaced by an image that says we are one.
It is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper -- that makes this country work.
It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one.