DrudgeReport.com featured a video of Barack Obama speaking about John McCain at his rally in Wilmington, Delaware yesterday.
Barack Obama Rallies at Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware on February 3, 2008, two days before Super Tuesday.
From Wikipedia:
In February 2007, standing before the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois, Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.[2] Describing his working life in Illinois, and symbolically linking his presidential campaign to Abraham Lincoln's 1858 House Divided speech, Obama said: 'That is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America.'[78] Speaking at a Democratic National Committee meeting one week before the February announcement, Obama called for putting an end to negative campaigning. 'This can't be about who digs up more skeletons on who, who makes the fewest slip-ups on the campaign trail,' he said. 'We owe it to the American people to do more than that.'[79]
Obama's campaign raised US$58 million during the first half of 2007, topping all other candidates and exceeding previous records for the first six months of any year before an election year.[80] Small donors, those contributing in increments of less than $200, accounted for $16.4 million of Obama's record-breaking total, more than for any other Democratic candidate.[81] His campaign reported adding 108,000 new donors through third quarter fundraising, for a total of 365,000 individual contributors in the first nine months.[82] Amid concerns for his safety as the first black candidate seen as having a viable chance of being elected president, the U.S. government assigned Secret Service protection to Obama 18 months before the general election.[83]
With two months remaining before the Iowa Democratic caucuses and New Hampshire Democratic primary, 2008, and national opinion polls showing him trailing Hillary Clinton, Obama began directly charging his top rival with failing to clearly state her political positions.[84] Campaigning in Iowa, he told the Washington Post that as the Democratic nominee he would draw more support than Clinton from independent and Republican voters in the general election.[85] At Iowa's Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner in November 2007, he expanded the theme, saying that his presidency would 'bring the country together in a new majority' to seek solutions to long-standing problems.[86] In January 2008, Obama won the Iowa caucus with 37.58% support, ahead of 29.75% for John Edwards and 29.47% for Clinton.[87] His Iowa lead was boosted by majority support from a record turnout of voters under 30 years old, most of them first-time caucus goers.[88] Five days later, Clinton won the New Hampshire primary with 39% of the vote to Obama's 37%.[89]
On January 26, 2008, Barack Obama easily defeated top rival Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary, in a victory that could reinvigorate his campaign after losing New Hampshire by a slight margin to Hillary Clinton, the New York senator. Fox News says, 'Returns showed Clinton leading former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards for second place, but Obama held on to a gaping lead. The final results had Obama with 55%, Clinton with 27% and Edwards with 18%.' [90] Senator Obama has shown the ability to reach across political divides, recently getting the endorsement of former Reagan speechwriter Jeffrey Hart.
