Reply #23: While campaigning for Edwards, I met a young man [View All]

[JDPriestly]

from Chicago who said he was voting for Obama because of his community activism and what Obama had done for Chicago. He seemed quite sincere. There was no reason for this young man to lie to me. I was campaigning for Edwards whom I still strongly support. The guy was not nasty toward other candidates. He was not hostile toward Edwards and was very friendly. He just told me that he thought highly of Obama because of the work that Obama had done. Prior to that time I was very skeptical about Obama's claim that he was a community activist.

I think the caller on the show on this audio/video clip is kind of on the make, kind of a greedy type. Note his view that Obama's job is to bring money back to Illinois. That is a rather self-indulgent view of a senator's job.