Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband

Arlen writes "As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today. He mentioned several things that will interest readers of Slashdot. The Senator said he wanted to free America from 'the tyranny of oil' and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol — a popular stance in the Midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers. He also talked about using science and technology to help those with chronic diseases, which is likely to have been an allusion to his staunch support for stem cell research. Perhaps most of interest to readers here is the following statement halfway through Obama's speech: 'Let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that.' Like nearly everything in his speech, this was met with robust applause from the crowd. You can watch a video of the entire speech at Obama's website."

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Re:Obama/Biden or Osama Bid Laden?

[sgt_doom]

WOW! I'm impressed...so you actually remember who Osama is? Are you a Repube or neocon? They all seemed to have conveniently forgotten that Bush family friend...wasn't he supposed to have had something to do with 9/11/01 and the murder of over 3,000 Americans??? Did someone in the Bushie Wushie administration forget that??? Oh, I'm sorry - the Bushies are ONLY CONCERNED with killing American soldiers (those whistle-blowing soldiers recently murdered by private security contractors, the Lt. Col. who was investigating Carlyle Group-owned USIS in Iraq, and that Delta team who was ordered to stand down after spotting Osama at Tora Bora, then witnessed the Pak helicopter transport him out of there).

Why yes, there is an Osama, Virginia, but the Bushies don't know it......