Obama Up NOW (live from Houston, TX)

[Tatiana]

Crowd is boisterous! There is so much energy in the place.

[Tatiana]

1. "Y'all know how to do it in Texas!" n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

2. "Houston, I think we've achieved liftoff here"

n/t

:kick::kick:

[TexasObserver]

3. over 20,000 and it's HUGE

[VolcanoJen]

4. I love you, Wisconsin Voters!

Just wanted to get that out there!!!

[Tatiana]

5. Early voting has started in Texas.

BTW... he is not using a teleprompter for this speech.

[apocalypsehow]

6. Excellent.

:kick:

[Tatiana]

7. Obama's talking about the primary/caucus system.

Encouraging supporters to attend caucus to get "us a few more votes."

"Can you do that Houston?"

"YES WE CAN!"

[Tatiana]

8. "We just heard that we won tonight in Wisconsin."

Thanks the folks in Wisconsin for their friendship and support and their "extraordinary civic pride."

[Tatiana]

9. "The change we seek is months and miles away."

"But we need the good people of Texas to help us get there."

[libertee]

15. He is living in a dreamstate!

[Cha]

21. You're living in

hell.

[Tatiana]

10. UH OH.... Obama mentions the workers in Youngstown, OH

Coincidence?

[Bad Thoughts]

11. "More than speeches, more than policy papers"

Great line. Should be repeated widely.

[Rick Myers]

12. Absolutely SMOKIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow!!!

That's a freaking speech!!!!

:kick:

[libertee]

13. McCain is gonna scorch him bad!

[adabfree]

23. bitter much...lol

[Tatiana]

14. This crowd is really loving him. n/t

[meow mix]

16. some serious looking security in that crowd...

army of "guys" standing around in suits n stuff. they are quite large.

[Hill_YesWeWill]

17. My mom, my brother and my neice are at that rally!

I couldn't go, I had school, plus the tickets were gone days ago!

[Cha]

24. That's good that they're there..

you can hear all about it first hand and report back:)

[shadowknows69]

18. He's tearing it up!

GoBama!

[thatsrightimirish]

19. kindergarten papers

omg lol!

[shadowknows69]

20. Yeah big ouch there lol

[Tatiana]

22. "We cannot wait to fix our schools...."

Tired of a politics that tears each other down. They want a politics that would lift the country up. They want a politics based on honesty, truthfulness, and straight talk to the American people.

[Tatiana]

25. Crowd cuts into speech, starts shouting "YES WE CAN!" n/t

[Tatiana]

26. Says he's not a "perfect vessel."

I can't do it by myself. No President can. The question I have for you Houston is "are you really ready for change?"

Thunderous applause.

[Kolesar]

27. Obama needs something more to talk about than why he is running for president

...and "ready for change".

[Tatiana]

28. Restore balance to our economy.

We don't believe in government doing what we can do for ourselves.

But when we have CEOs making more in 10 minutes than workers make in a whole year then something has to change.

We're gonna roll back the Bush tax cuts.

Senior citizens making less than $50,000 a year, you're already having a tough time making ends meet. You won't pay taxes.

We want our trade deals to have standards.

Minimum wage to keep pace with inflation.

(This is his domestic laundry list...)

[Kolesar]

29. Ok. Cap and trade of CO2 is important

Everybody on this forum is going to be talking about it for the next ten years.

[crispini]

30. This is good stuff.

I think I'm looking at the next POTUS here.

Indeed.

[Tatiana]

31. "I want to go to the world community and say America is back and we're ready to lead." n/t

[meow mix]

32. ut uh, he reveres mccains service and hes a hero. that means...

he's about the rip the guys guts.

[Tatiana]

33. LOL Booing McCain. He's represents the failed policies of yesterday.

We want to be the party of tomorrow.