Road Blog: The Day in Pictures, Ohio
August 31, 2008
As the sun set over the football stadium at Dublin Coffman High School, Battalion Chief O’Connell gave a crowd count of about 18,000 people. They came to see Barack Obama and Joe Biden, joined by three of their own — Governor Ted Strickland, Senator Sherrod Brown, and former Senator John Glenn — lay out the case for the change.
It was a perfect ending to an action-filled day that ran the emotional spectrum — from hearing people’s stories at a diners and farmstands to speaking at the funeral services of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a pioneering Congresswoman who passed away last week.
Barack and Joe concluded the day with a press event at which they addressed Hurricane Gustav.
Barack was briefed today by Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Paulison and spoke with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and Governor Jindal.
They spoke about how evacuation plans were going, particularly for the elderly and poor and the pre-staging of personnel and supplies in the area. They also talked about the levees in New Orleans.
Senator Obama offered whatever he could do to help, and he and Joe said the following to the press:
Arun Chaudhary
August 30th, 2008
Marysville, OH
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It is time for our candidates to take advice from Georgian President Saakashvili and move from “Word to action”. These two men are applying for the most powerful job in the nation, if not the world. They are in command of enormous wealth and hordes of willing volunteers. They have more influence than any religious leader, any rock star. Rather than talk about the horrors of natural disaster, I would love to see them mobilize these resources to combat the effects of Gustav. The one that mobilizes their base to set up shelters, provide food and comfort, to join Habitat for Humanity is the man I will ultimately find, above and beyond legal opinions or economic acumen, will win my vote.