Obama at UNC-CH: Time for new chapter
The News & Observer | April 29, 2008
By Barbara Barrett
Sen. Barack Obama rallied thousands of supporters at UNC-Chapel Hill late Monday, saying he is the best candidate to bring Americans through the crisis of rising gas and food prices.
Speaking after 10:30 p.m. to a crowd that skewed young and screamed loudly enough to be heard up the street, Obama ended a day of campaigning in the Dean Smith Center. There, he said that he would bring troops home from Iraq, that he would unify the country, that he would fight special interests and, as much as anything, that he believes in hope and the American dream.
"This campaign is about you," he said. "And when we remember that, that's when government works."
Obama's image was broadcast over four giant screens above the crowd, which the campaign said numbered about 18,000.
"It is time for us to write a new chapter in American history," Obama said. "That's why you're here tonight."
