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Obama: U.S. ready for black president
White House hopeful Barack Obama, taking a fellow black lawmaker to task, said Saturday voters are ready to elect a black president.
I agree. President Condi Rice has a nice ring to it ...
"Some people said we can‘t do this, we can‘t do that, so we shouldn‘t even try. If I have your support, if I have your energy and involvement and commitment and ideas, then I‘m here to tell you, ‘Yes we can.‘"

The first-in-the-South contest here is seen as a test of candidates‘ abilities to reach black voters. Half of the state‘s Democratic primary voters are black. Obama responded to comments this past week by Democratic state Sen. Robert Ford of Charleston, who helped mobilize black voters for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards in 2004, but has switched to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential race. Ford said one reason he was supporting Clinton, the New York senator, is that he is skeptical Obama can win the presidency and worries his nomination could hurt other Democratic candidates.
Posted by: Fred 2007-02-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=180796