Durbin stumps for Obama - "This man touches our hearts. He gives us hope."

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Illinois' other senator stumps for Obama
by John McCormick

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- Illinois' senior senator is out on the trail today with his junior colleague, Barack Obama, whom he introduced this morning with his trademark deadpan.

"You were expecting another Illinois senator?" Sen. Dick Durbin asked a crowd of several hundred at a stop here. "He's on his way."

Durbin, who serves as the Senate's majority whip and is a friend of Obama, recalled being at a meeting about a year ago at Chicago's Union League Club, where he said he had a "heart to heart conversation" with the younger senator and urged him to run.

"This man touches our hearts. He gives us hope," Durbin said.

When it was his turn, Obama made a point of thanking "the senior senator from Illinois."

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[peoli]

1. good for Dick

[Bitwit1234]

3. Yeah buddy one dick to another.

[Cha]

6. Sez the hillary surrogate

who only knows how to lower people's opinions of hillary with her shit flinging political barbs.

[Imagevision]

2. After following up on Obama's speehes/events the man has given me more hope...

[BringBigDogBack]

4. kickdrum

[Flabbergasted]

5. kick

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7. You're nice...goin' around

kickin' all the positive Obama threads. :)

[Flabbergasted]

8. Actually I'm kicking positive threads. I am so sick of the negativity.

[Cha]

9. Cool...I just noticed

the Obama ones today..I took a break yesterday:)

Happy New Year, Flabbergasted..out there in Portland, Ore.

[IsItJustMe]

10. I feel that Durbin is a true progressive, but even a progressive can wrong

every once in a while.