Speaking to a crowd of about 2,000 in Birmingham tonight, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama described himself as a “hope monger” with more to offer the country than the current occupant of the White House.
The event at the downtown Sheraton ballroom was a small-donation fundraiser for the Obama campaign, which has prided itself in its large number of small donations. Attendees paid $25 each to hear the senator speak.
Earlier in the day in Huntsville and later Monday night at the home of HealthSouth CEO Jay Grinney, a smaller number of more generous donors paid as much as $2,300 for a more direct audience with the Illinois senator.
Speaking to the Birmingham crowd, Obama punched all the partisan buttons, blasting the Bush administration for having “a philosophy of can’t do, won’t do and won’t even try.”
“We know what is wrong and that’s before we even get to Scooter,” Obama said, referring to the former vice presidential assistant whose prison sentence President Bush commuted last week.
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