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Ba-rack-in Philadelphia: A Declaration of Independence from cynical politics

On the 233rd anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, the legacy lives on in Pennsylvania.....

 35,000 in Philadelphia!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/caitlinharvey/gGCxFF

 

Obama Rocks Philly: Over 40,000 at Downtown Rally/March - largest crowd ever

Amazing rally and spontaneous march in the streets of Philadelphia - "Declare your Independence!"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/22105/1053/669/498696

 

Tune in to C-SPAN tonight (Saturday, April 19) at 8:45 Eastern, 7:45 Central to watch the On Track for Change tour rolling into Harrisburg LIVE!   It will be aired AGAIN at 11pm Central Time (midnight Eastern Time) Saturday night, and 10:30 am Central Time (11:30 am Eastern) Sunday morning.


"In four days, you get the chance to help bring about the change that we need right now.  Here in the city and the state that gave birth to our democracy, we can declare our independence from the politics that has shut us out, and let us down, and told us to settle.
We can declare our independence from the politics that's put the oil companies, and the drug companies, and the insurance companies in charge of the decisions that impact our lives and our children's lives.
We can declare independence from the say-anything, do-anything politics that's all about how to win and not why we should; that politics that exploits our differences instead of speaking to our common concerns and our common destinies as Americans.
We can do all these things, but only if we declare our independence from the cynicism and the doubt that tells us that change can't happen."   

- Barack Obama, to a crowd of 35,000 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, 4-18-2008.


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