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**LIVE**: Barack @ CDA

By T. Neil Sroka - Jul 26th, 2007 at 4:00 pm EDT

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I'm Neil, the New Media Director in South Carolina, and I'm super excited to be blogging LIVE from the College Democrats of America convention in right here in the capitol of the Palmetto State, Columbia.

The Students for Obama team is already here in mass and Barack should be starting his speech around 5pm EST. Click the Read More link below to follow the speech as it happens.

Last Updated: 5:12 PM EST

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4:30 PM - Barack is here in the Russell House and will taking the stage within the hour.

4:40 - Bess Evans introduces Senator Obama. Reminds the crowd to text CDA to OBAMA (62262).

4:46 - Obama takes the stage to Jin's Obama Rap. Even the overflow room is cheering!

4:47 - "I'm fired up, I don't know about you... Thanks to Lauren Wolfe, President of CDA and Jamarr Brown chair of SC College Dems..."

4:49 - "But most of all I want to thank every student that's here for all the work you do around the country... you're breathing new life in to a politics that's never needed it more."

4:50 - "You know this is a war that never should have been authorized, never should have been waged and its time for your friends to come home."

4:51 - "A few years ago, after I got out of college, I got this crazy idea that I wanted to be a community organizer... Finally a small group of community organizers in the South Side of Chicago wrote back and gave me a chance to give back.."

4:52 - "As a community organizer, we didn't change the world, but we changed the community we lived in..."

4:54 - "Here's the point, I've been where you are. I took a look at the world and wanted to change it... The reason that this President has failed to lead this country, is that he's failed to bring this country together."

4:57 - "Its time for a new generation in Washington... It's time to get past the old debates that have divided us." Talks about the health care plan.
"If you graduate and you can't get a job right away, you're going to be able to stay on your plans insurance into your 25. I can't problem that they'll let you live at home until that age, but I can assure you you'll have access to health insurance."

4:59 - "If you don't think I can relate to the problem of paying for loans, you should know that Michelle and I were still paying for our Law school, eight years after school, then we were paying for our mortgage."

5:01 - "One more thing, it's time for a new generation of leadership to end this war in Iraq and restore American leadership in the World."

5:02 - "We need to keep turning on the pressure on those 15 senators that are holding up this end to the War."

5:03 - "Saying you won't talk to leaders that you don't like, doesn't show you're strength, it shows you're stubbornness."

5:05 - "I want to ask you to return to your college campus and register 10, 15 new voters. Let's show America that you do make a difference, that you're vote counts. This our chance to show them wrong."

5:05 - "Now in this election, it's our turn. let's right that next chapter, let's turn that new page. Let's change America."

5:07 -"This amazing thing happened on that day [in Selma]... but millions of people saw them and turned to their parents and said "That's not what you taught me." They loaded up on buses... they became a mighty stream of marchers, and they made it all the way to the State Capital. And in 1965, that same year, we got the voting act signed."

5:08 - "[Those marchers] didn't know me, but they imagined us and they realized that if they didn't act, that others would suffer... I couldn't conceive of running for the US Senate, let alone the US presidency, if that didn't happen."

5:10 - "That's how we're going to bring an end to the Iraq war, that's how we're going to end global warming... We're going to make a change because you decide you're going to change the country, we need you to knock on doors, we need you to transform this country."

5:11 - Speach ends.

5:20 - Obama joins us in the overflow room.

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