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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Extra Golden : Obama : Tuesday Primary



Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to slug it out for Indiana. I think Obama is about three points up, less than a week from the primary. Absentee balloting is at an all-time high, so that's exciting. I don't think anyone in Indiana expected to be such an important state to the campaign, but it is shaping up that way.

Extra Golden is playing the Pitchfork Music Fest, Bonnaroo and the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, KY this year. Lots of love for the midwest, so you shouldn't miss out on them.

Like Extra Golden, I too am a fan of Obama, but their story and relationship with him is much more personal. In 2006 the Kenyan-American band was preparing to tour the U.S. for the first time. Unfortunately their Kenyan members were being road-blocked left and right in the visa department. It was looking pretty bad. They reached out to Barack, a Kenyan-American junior senator from Illinois. Obama put his pimp hand down, got them the papers they needed and saved the tour. The band wrote Obama as thanks, and the song is featured on their 2007 album Hera Ma Nono. Check into it.

Extra Golden - Obama

MOKB was on hand last weekend when Barack was in town. MOKB staff photographer Dave Evans shot the event. See his photos after the jump...


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)


Barack Obama in Indiana
(photos by Dave Evans)



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4 Talk back to yo' mama!:

At 6:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

obama will raise taxes and the minimum wage.
Thus proves his ignorance, when our market is down higher taxes are the last thing we need. Let's just add to corruptness and pay the government more and more. The middle class gets screwed.

 
At 7:07 PM, Anonymous CB spat...

I imagine you're for the Memorial to Labor Day gas tax cut? Promote burning more oil and in the meantime save a whopping $2 per tank! Just don't ask where funds to fix our roads will come from....

 
At 6:20 AM, Blogger YA76OO spat...

lovely. i like

 
At 9:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

For all Obama fans, Check it out http://www.djztrip.com/obama/

 

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