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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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ElectionObama campaign: Rally at American Bank Center
Doors open at 3 p.m.; admission will be first-come, first-serve; event expected to start at 4:30 p.m.
By Denise Malan (Contact)
Originally published 03:13 a.m., February 21, 2008
Updated 03:13 a.m., February 21, 2008
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles following his address at a rally Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008, in Houston. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
CORPUS CHRISTI — Doors will open at Sen. Barack Obama's rally at 3 p.m. Friday at the American Bank Center, his campaign confirmed Wednesday night.
The event is expected to start at 4:30 p.m.
Admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis, not with tickets as previously reported. The campaign is not using the ticket format as in other events but does encourage RSVPs through the candidate's Web site, texas.barackobama.com, to help organizers gauge the potential size of the crowd. Admission is free.
The event, originally planned as a town hall-style meeting, was switched to a rally because of overwhelming interest, campaign spokesman Nick Shapiro said. Obama's advance staff was at the American Bank Center late Wednesday night preparing.
Obama's visit was announced Monday, but details such as time and place were delayed. A delay in details is common with these types of events. Confirmation of logistics for a Wednesday event that attracted 17,000 people in Dallas were released Tuesday morning.
Amy Gazin, spokeswoman for the Corpus Christi International Airport, announced Wednesday that Obama's plane will arrive at 3:30 p.m. at the airport. The senator is expected to leave Corpus Christi about 7:30 p.m.
Before his visit to Corpus Christi, Obama is scheduled to speak at 9:30 a.m. at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.
The event will be in the arena at the American Bank Center. Organizers were unsure late Wednesday how many people the arena could accommodate. Arena Spokeswoman Christina Garcia previously said arena officials are unsure whether they would charge for parking. The center typically charges $5 per car at other events.
More details will be available today.
Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, had a campaign rally Feb. 13 in Robstown. More than 6,000 people attended the event at Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds, and supporters said she raised nearly $50,000 at a VIP gathering before her speech.
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Obama offers Democrats inspirational leadership
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., offers voters a chance to get beyond bitter partisanship and polarized politics.
Democrats are watching one of the most exciting presidential nominating contest in years unfold in a series of state primaries across the nation. The two Democrats left in the race, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, now bring their campaigns to Texas. This is a memorable moment for Texans whose voices have been irrelevant in past presidential primary elections. But in this March 4 primary, Texas Democrats have a chance to make history.
The campaign of the 46-year-old Illinois senator has demonstrated his ability to bring new voters to the polls in every primary held so far. This is evidence of Obama's ability to reawaken faith in representative democracy among Americans sick of leadership that depends on division and demonizing of opponents.
The nation's politics have been mired for too long in a game of one-upmanship and retribution. Americans are looking for leadership, but their politicians have been hungering for payback.These are difficult issues to grapple with and they demand a broad and inclusive effort from the entire American political spectrum to arrive at solutions. This is the appeal of Obama. His candidacy is rooted in the notion that politics can be about solutions, not divisions, that elected leaders are elected to lead, not to drive wedges between groups of Americans. This is a chance to break from the past.
Obama is more than biography, but his family background -- the son of an African father and a Kansas mother, raised in Indonesia and the polyglot population of Hawaii -- gives him a wider perspective of the world. It is a profile much like that of a young generation of Americans who look beyond color and ethnicity and who are creating and being raised in biracial and even triracial homes. Obama's candidacy is a hope that the old ethnic and racial politics will fade. May that day come quickly.
The Editorial Board endorses Sen. Barack Obama because it believes that he offers the kind of inspirational leadership the country is hungry for.
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