Barack Obama still has Wisconsin on his mind.

[a kennedy]

John Nichols — 5/10/2008 7:27 am

In the victory speech he gave after winning the North Carolina primary and almost winning the Indiana primary Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate celebrated his best night since he swept the Feb. 19 voting in the Badger state.

And he did so by recalling an incident on the campaign trail in Wisconsin and suggesting that he is strengthened in his resolve to win the nomination and the White House by the memory of "the mother in Wisconsin who gave me a bracelet inscribed with the name of the son she lost in Iraq; the families who pray for their loved ones to come home; the heroes on their third and fourth and fifth tour of duty.

"They can't afford four more years of a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. They can't afford four more years of our veterans returning to broken-down barracks and substandard care. They need us to end a war that isn't making us safer. They need us to treat them with the care and respect they deserve. That's why I'm running for president."

A variation on the story is featured in Obama's latest national fundraising letter, which went out this week to hundreds of thousands of supporters across the country.

Full article here: http://www.madison.com/tct/news/CTstaging/285632

[elocs]

1. I still think WI was a pivotal turning point in the Obama campaign. n/t

[sybylla]

2. I think he's using us as a subtle reminder

We're a state that's just chock full of those uneducated whites HRC says are supporting her yet she lost big here.