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When I heard the news last night that Secret Service protection has been extended to Barack Obama it sent shivers up my back. Jill Miller Zimon at Writes Like She Talks already mentioned this on her page today, but as soon as I heard it last night I was thinking the same thing. […]

Matthew over at RAB has decided to host a live chat session (it may be just Matt and me, but… stop by and say hi).
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RAB’s Live Debate Chat: 2008 Presidential Primary, MSNBC Debate #1
Submitted by Matthew on May 3, 2007 - 7:13pm. […]

I’ve posted a compilation of some of the live blogs from last night’s Obama event at Tri-C over on The Silent Majority. My thanks to tablemates Anthony Fossacecca of Blue Ohioan and Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks for their camaraderie, to Jerid Kurtz of Buckeye State Blog and Jason Haas of […]

The cramps in my fingers are dying down and I’m going to try and make ryhme or reason out of last night’s Obama event and live blog by combining everyone’s live posts onto a page on the Silent Majority.  For the moment I’ve got my weekly 24 update to post.  Check in this afternoon for an […]

The crowd’s milling out , but the Senator’s still shaking hands.  I’ll post game the event tomorrow. 
The best part of this whole thing was the interaction with my fellow bloggers.  Reading one another’s posts and then responding.   This is a great free form forum to exchange ideas.  We need to do more of this.
Ta, ta for […]

He just finished up with a reference to an elderly woman in Illinois and how if she can work hard so can he.  If she won’t give up neither will I…
Good speech good event.  I didn’t hear anything that was earth shattering, but it’s still early.

Jill’s looking over my shoulder and we’re give and taking…
She seems to think that Obama’s giving answers.
I’m him reciting the litany of problems, but his solution is a little too simplisitic - I am the answer.
I think he’s having some trouble raising the big bucks, he just said “I’d rather have a 100,000 votes than […]

The Senator appears comfortable with his stump speech… he’s hitting the old Democratic standards:  “our children will be the first generation of Americans to inherit a poorer country than their parents inherited.”
This is his crowd they’re eating it up.  I’m a little more skeptical (hey it’s my job).
It’s a good speech, but here’s what I don’t like […]