GRAND FORKS, ND - For a few hours on a Friday, North Dakota was the center of all the controversy over Bosnian snipers, the clergy shameless, and 3 hours of call superdelegates.
And North Dakota was grateful.
In a rare event, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, converged at Grand Forks, in a few hours of each other, signaling, the intensity of competition and national Dakotans from the north, which is not uncommon sense, left national debates, a Welcome sense of civic pride.
Obama, the key stakeholders in the status of the Convention of the Democratic Party, a speech of 35 minutes with populist themes laced with a sitting-room-only much more 19000th He threw last month, the loss of 80000 jobs and on a national level is dominated by Washington-Special Interest Groups. The Illinois senator, won the state’s Democratic group meetings in February, also recognized, North Dakota Public:
“Some people think that this is just a fly-over-state meeting of the group of countries are not really fair. I tell you that we do not fly through North Dakota, we disembarked. Us’ have no cushion North Dakota, we are competing in this group meetings, and we believe the path of all competitors in November. ”
Obama took the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King reflect what the citizens rights leader would have thought that the possibility of the nation Black, the former presidents.
“Forty years later, he will be pleased to this audience, I stand here, there would be progress has been made in the Americas, and he would say:” You see a rainbow in the direction of the bending is justice. “However, it also wants to remind you that we are not bend on its own. It will flounder, because each of us is ready to hand that our rainbow and turn in the direction of equity. ”
In group meetings, Obama won eight Clinton’s five delegates, but also Democrats to decide this weekend, residents are regarded as delegates to the National Convention, which the chances of last-minute manoeuvres by the campaigns collection one or two additional delegate.
“Rocky” and hockey
More than a quarter of the amount left before Clinton came on stage at 8:40 pm on the theme of the song “Rocky”. She obtained a bat hockey at the University of North Dakota, with the hockey team, as Obama.
“The Fighting Sioux, which I know very little about them, they never give up. Exciting it is when a Democrat of North Dakota at this time,” she told the quantity.
Recalling the flood, 1997 at Grand Forks, Clinton referred to the work of her husband, Bill, who came from Grand Forks and pledged the support of the Confederation for reconstruction. “She was a partner in the White House. It had a president, the first of your family, you had a director of FEMA, which was in fact a little more natural disasters,” she said.
During a speech that lasted 50 minutes, Clinton has criticized the Bush administration for the marketing to corporate special interests at the forefront, and has worked hard in recent Families “by reductions d ‘taxes for millionaires, nor command.
They also talked about health care universal, equal, the solutions proposed by members of Congress and are committed to the use of renewable energy, they help, “said United States farmers and the reduction of dependence on foreign oil.
Clinton there were no signs of it, the proposals it is considering to leave their country where they Obama hiking trails in the overall delegate count. “I know what they stumble. I know what his demolished happy, but I am not going to stay, “she said.
Happy to have
Obama was invited to the Convention of North Dakota United States Senator Byron Dorgan. Clinton was relatively late, with news of his visit next Monday. In fact, the events of the Convention obsolete so quickly that the official position guide was printed before publication, so that the absence of a mention, while a smile Obama was visible.