Barack Obama's speech from today will be on cspan tomorrow

Road to the White house. 6;30 Central time. Anyone who is interested, mark your calander.

on an Alabama car today in the french quarter.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=68960

April 21, 2007

Senator Barack Obama says the Reverend Al Sharpton helped lay the foundation for Obama's presidential run.

Speaking at Sharpton's National Action Network annual convention in Midtown this afternoon, Obama made a direct appeal for votes from the black community, reminding the audience about his work on healthcare reform and education.

"If there is somebody who has been more on the forefront on behalf of the issues that you care about and has more concrete accomplishment on behalf of the things you’re concerned about, then I am happy to see you endorse them; I am happy to see you support them,” he said. “But I am absolutely confident that you will not find that, because there is nobody who has stood fast on these issues more consistently each and every day, then I have. That is something that I know."

Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., laughs with Rev. Al Sharpton during a speech to an audience at the 9th annual National Action Network convention Saturday, April 21, 2007 in New York. This election, the high-profile Sharpton, fresh from the fight over Don Imus' derogatory remarks, is attracting all the party's major candidates this week for his annual National Action Network convention. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/us/politics/22obama.html?ref=politics

The Sharpton-Obama-Clinton dynamic was made unusually plain at one point yesterday when Mr. Obama, pausing in his remarks, looked at the podium and said, “There’s something humming down here.”

“That’s Sharpton’s BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama added, and then quickly quipped, “Is that Hillary calling?”

As the audience laughed, he said: “I was just checking. I wasn’t sure.”