Photos: Barack Obama speaks to 6,000 at Arizona State University on Friday, October 19th

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Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks Friday, Oct. 19, 2008 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Barack Obama addresses crowd of 6,000 at ASU

The East Valley Tribune
October 19, 2007
By Paul Giblin

Presidential candidate Barack Obama told nearly 6,000 people at Arizona State University Friday that the country needs a change of leadership.

"We don't need somebody who knows how to work the system. We need somebody to change the system," he said. "I'm not running to uphold conventional wisdom. I'm running to change the conventional wisdom."

Obama spoke on a range of topics.

He called for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Iraq war, and said that if elected his first course of business will be to call for a meeting of the joint chiefs of staff to order them to remove Americans from the Middle East. He also promised to provide health care to every single person in the United States that is as good as health care U.S. senators receive.

He pledged to close what he termed the "achievement gap" in education by recruiting an entire army of new teachers. He also vowed to make college more affordable, which prompted rousing applause from the largely college crowd.

Obama said he would mandate increased fuel efficiency in cars in order to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

On immigration, he advocated securing the U.S. borders and providing a pathway to citizenship for foreign nationals already living and working in the United States.

"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants” and those things are not contradictory," he said.

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/10/19/barack_obama_addresses_crowd_o.php

[Olney Blue]

1. I have to say- he is one fine looking man.

[gateley]

2. Great pics! He can sure energize a crowd! nt

[FlaxieB]

3. Nice Pictures

[AtomicKitten]

4. I so look forward to your photos of the Obama campaign.

Thanks.

[jillan]

5. I'm really sorry I had to miss it.

Hopefully he will be back again.

[zulchzulu]

6. Absolutely fantastic!

K&R!

[MNDemNY]

7. Did he have his "Homophobe Choir" with him?

Obama and The Homophobes.

[William769]

8. I wonder how many homophobes in that crowd?

I know of at least one.