Obama goes gloves off, head-on

[ursi]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

January 14, 2008

In a Sun interview Sunday, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama addressed the suddenly front-and-center issue of race in his fight with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Looking poised and relatively fresh given the grueling schedule of a presidential campaign, the senator from Illinois spoke in his customary manner — cool, measured, deliberate — about urban issues, his appeal to Hispanic voters and a controversial lawsuit about Saturday’s caucus that is pitting some Clinton backers against Obama and the union that endorsed him last week, Culinary Union Local 226. Also, the TV show “The Wire” came up.

Obama, framed by a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Doolittle Community Center classroom, addressed the lawsuit in which a group of Democratic activists, including the state teachers union, is suing the Democratic Party, declaring as unfair the existence of nine at-large caucus sites on the Strip. Those sites are designed to allow shift workers union and nonunion to caucus in case the 11:30 a.m. start time falls during their workday. The plaintiffs say the Strip caucus sites are designed to give an unfair advantage to the Culinary.

Obama addressed the lawsuit head-on: “Look, the caucus structure was agreed to by every major player in the Democratic Party here in Nevada and was negotiated by the major players in the Democratic National Committee. Six days before the caucus is taking place, some of the people who were connected to setting up this very structure are now filing suit, trying to change the rules. It’s hard not to draw the conclusion that people were unhappy about the outcome of the Culinary Union endorsement process and now people are trying to fix it. In the process it is disenfranchising dishwashers and bartenders who work hard and should be able to participate in their democracy.”

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/14/obama-gloves-off/

[aquart]

1. "Obama, framed by a portrait of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ..."

LOL!

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Since he's decided to go "head on" do we have to apply him directly to the forehead?

:shrug:

[Diane R]

3. Good for him. The Clintons play dirty and he needs to call them on it.

[murielm99]

4. I haven't seen anything about the Clintons being

a party to this lawsuit.

The reader comments on that article were appalling. The people calling him Hussein Obama are crazy.