Terre Haute for Obama

Even if you do not have a ticket to tonight’s event you should still plan to come by and be a part of the experience. There will be areas inside that have live video and audio of the speech and showing the Senator just how much support there is for him by packing the area […]

Barack Obama in Terre Haute, IN
Join Barack Obama at a Town Hall in Terre Haute on Friday, April 11th.
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Road to Change Town Hall with Barack Obama
Terre Haute North Vigo High School Gym
3434 Maple Ave
Terre Haute, IN

Friday, April 11th
Doors open: 6:15 p.m.
Program Begins: 8:15 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public however seating is limited and a ticket is required.
For security reasons, do not bring bags. Please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted.
Ticket distribution center:
Meadows Shopping Center
Obama for America Table
25th St. & Ohio Blvd.
Terre Haute, IN

Free tickets will be available on Thursday, April 10th from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

For more information, please call 812-232-2008

Below is information for the Lafayett and the Muncie visits…Lafayette on Thursday and Muncie on Saturday…But What is Barack Obama doing on Friday? Hmmmmm.
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Barack Obama in Lafayette, IN
Join Barack Obama at a Town Hall in Lafayette on Thursday, April 10th.

Road to Change Town Hall with Barack Obama
Jefferson High School
Marion L. Crawley Athletic […]

Beginning Wednesday Barack is in South Bend at Washington High School. the event begins at 10pm and is a free ticketed event. The notice went out late Monday night and by the time offices in South Bend opened at 10am on Tuesday, all the tickets were gone. Surprise.
The real question is where will he […]

Daily Talking Points
April 07, 2008Message of the day: Fighting for America’s middle class

Barack Obama believes that to bring about real change for working Americans, we need to stand up to the special interests that have been setting the agenda in Washington for too long.

We can trust Barack Obama to take on the special interests […]

Message of the day: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Through his faith, courage, and wisdom, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved an entire nation. He preached the gospel of brotherhood; of equality and justice. That’s the cause for which he lived – and for which he died forty years ago today. Barack Obama is in Indiana today, where Robert Kennedy spoke on the night of Dr. King’s death, to discuss the ways Dr. King’s life and legacy speak to us today.

• Much of the commemoration this week centers on issues of racial justice – on the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington, on the freedom rides and the stand at Selma. That’s as it should be – because those were times when ordinary men and women, straight-backed and clear-eyed, challenged what they knew was wrong and helped perfect our union. And they did so in large part because Dr. King pointed the way.

• But Senator Obama also thinks it’s worth reflecting on what Dr. King was doing in Memphis, when he stepped onto that motel balcony on his way out for dinner. And what he was doing was standing up for struggling sanitation workers, who were being denied fair treatment, a decent wage, and recognition of their union.

• Dr. King understood that the struggle for economic justice and the struggle for racial justice were really one – that so long as opportunity was being opened to some but not all, the dream that he spoke of would remain out of reach.

• While the sanitation workers eventually secured their union contract, the struggle for economic justice remains an unfinished part of the King legacy. Because the dream is still out of reach for too many Americans. All across this country, families are facing rising costs, stagnant wages, and the terrible burden of losing a home.

• Part of the problem is that for a long time, we’ve had a politics that’s been too small for the scale of the challenges we face. Instead of having a politics that lives up to Dr. King’s call for unity, we’ve had a politics that’s used race to drive us apart, when all this does is feed the forces of division and distraction, and stop us from solving our problems.

• That is why the great need of this hour is much the same as it was forty years ago. We have to recognize that while we each have a different past, we all share the same hopes for the future – that we’ll be able to find a job that pays a decent wage, that there will be affordable health care when we get sick, that we’ll be able to send our kids to college, and that after a lifetime of hard work, we’ll be able to retire with security. These common dreams are at the heart of the struggle for freedom, dignity, and humanity that Dr. King began, and that it is our task to complete today.

Supporting struggling families

• Today we learned that the economic crisis continues to spread to more American families, as we have now lost 232,000 jobs this year and the unemployment rate has reached its highest level since immediately after Katrina. This bad news is just the latest evidence that Washington needs fundamental change because it has failed the American people. For millions of unemployed Americans, the American Dream has been slipping away while their government has put special interests ahead of their interests.

• It’s time to turn the page on a Bush-McCain approach that tells Americans who are struggling that ‘you’re on your own’ unless you have a lobbyist in Washington, because we’re not going to strengthen our economy unless we come together on behalf of our common prosperity. Instead of doing nothing for out-of-work Americans, we need a second stimulus that extends unemployment insurance and helps communities that have been hit hard by this recession. Instead of tolerating decades of rising inequality, we need to grow the middle class by investing in millions of new Green Jobs and rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. And after decades of flawed trade agreements and tax breaks that ship our jobs overseas, we need to invest in companies that create jobs right here at home.

Come meet Jeremy Piven and hear why he is visiting ISU as a surrogate for Senator Barack Obama’s Campaign. Piven will talk about this year’s election, the importance of the youth vote, and why he supports his candidate. He’ll of course take questions from the audience and take a few pictures.
Where: ISU Sycamore Lounge (across […]

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Bob Casey endorses Barack Obama

Today, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is endorsing Senator Barack Obama. Working families in Pennsylvania have few stronger advocates than Senator Casey. And that is why they can trust him when he says that Senator Obama is the one candidate who can take on the special interests, and bring Democrats and Republicans […]