Obama IS the boots on the ground in Iowa.

[AtomicKitten]

Obama Knocks on Doors in Iowa

By AMY LORENTZEN

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama knocked on doors in the Iowa capital Saturday talking up his opposition to the war in Iraq.

At one stop, Obama got a warm welcome from a woman who said the visit might persuade her to attend the Democratic presidential caucus in January, "I'm flabbergasted that he's here knocking on my neighborhood door," Jody Degard told reporters after the visit from the Illinois senator.

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Obama also evoked images of the civil rights movement, and said women were a driving force in changing history. "You are part of long tradition, because women like you were the backbone of the civil rights movement in this country. Women didn't always get credit — you know how men like to run to the front of the parade," the Illinois senator said as many clapped loudly.

Obama said their work is what will make it possible for America to elect a black president. "It's because of what they did that come 2009 we are going to have a first lady from the south side of Chicago in the White House," he said.

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Obama spent about an hour going door to door on Des Moines east side. He started the day by encouraging supporters to talk to fellow Iowans about the war in Iraq.

"The main thing that we want to communicate today is that this war that we've been fighting in Iraq has got to stop, that we can no longer afford $275 million a day spent on a civil war between factions in Iraq where there is no military solution to be had, that it's time for us to begin bringing our young men and women home — they have been there long enough," Obama said at a high school.

"All across the state, people are gathering together just like they are gathering together here to go out and start knocking on doors and talking to folks about how we can bring about big change in America," Obama said.

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Asked by reporters how he is differentiating himself from the front-running Clinton, Obama said that on foreign policy, "I think she tends to think more conventionally at a time that we are facing a series of unconventional threats. And, so how aggressive we are with direct diplomacy."

His campaign said that supporters were canvassing in 15 states, and that in Iowa nearly 400 volunteers knocked on more than 10,000 doors in 46 communities.

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[Grandrose]

1. K&R

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[Odin2005]

2. K&R GOBAMA! n/t.