Obama takes questions from Blue Bell audience
Barack Obama spent an hour today talking to several dozen mostly middle-age adults in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Barack Obama spent an hour today talking to several dozen mostly middle-age adults in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Wearing his shirtsleeves rolled up and sitting atop a park-type bench at Montgomery County Community College, in Blue Bell, the Illinois senator and contender for the Democratic presidential nomination took questions rather the delivering a speech.
He demonstrated deep knowledge on a wide range of concerns, from keeping the Internet open for all types of users to the problem of providing sufficient nursing staffs at hospitals.
Not once did Obama expressly ask for votes in the primary tomorrow, nor did he say much about his rival, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"People do feel we've got to fundamentally change how Washington works, and that's what this campaign is all about," he said.
"All of us," he said, referring to Clinton and himself, "believe we need to provide universal health care, in one form or another. . . . But not all of us have talked about how we need to change the way Washington works."
Obama, on his fourth full day in a final campaign swing through Pennsylvania, began the day in Scranton. From the Philadelphia area, he planned to fly to Pittsburgh.
