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	B. Obama Walks the Walk

devans00

8-31-2008 9:09 PM

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barack, obama, disasters, katrina, iowa, flood, new orleans, community, service, volunteer

devans00 says:

This article summarizes one of the main reasons I back Barack Obama. I believe in community service and helping out others in need and apparently so does he. We don't have to wait for him to finish being president to see him interacting with people who make less than $500k per year.

To see him doing this stuff before he can score political points shows that this is the real him. Not a put on. The fact that he's called on to do these events shows his general respect level.

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