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Barack Obama Backstage, 1-On 1 With Fans

August 31st, 2008

Moments before he took the stage in Denver to touch 84,000 people Thursday night, I stood just a few feet away, camera rolling, to capture Sen. Barack Obama, as he touched two dozen voters, picked at random to meet him, in a rare and personal way.

He’s an active listener, engaging, bantering, even comforting with one woman who was so overcome with emotion, she burst into tears.

“Why are you crying?” he asked, hugging her, telling her everything was going to be okay. Read the rest of this entry »

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Clinton-Biden-Obama Electrify Convention

August 28th, 2008

Denver, Colo., Aug. 28–With my laptop back from a crashed hard drive, I can now report what it was like to sit in the cavernous Pepsi Center in Denver last night, with the Democratic all-stars knocking speeches out of the park, from the surrogate war heroes like double amputee and decorated chopper pilot Tammy Duckworth…to ex-Prez Bill Clinton did what I thought impossible. Read the rest of this entry »

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SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE! BIDEN, 0BAMA VEEP!

August 23rd, 2008

It looked like Joe all day, with the Virginia governor, then Sen. Evan Bayh saying they were not Barack Obama’s co-pilot. Hillary admitted she’d never even been vetted by his committee and was left licking her wounds with the consolation prize of a speech, plus one for Wild Bill, at the convention.

Then it was only Sen. Joe Biden, for days uncharacteristically quiet and coy with the press for someone never known to be at a loss for words…a frontrunner by many expert accounts all along, then confirmed by news wires as Obama’s choice after midnight Friday…We’ll see him in Denver.

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