"Mustard and Relish" Sandwich girl an Obama organizer Pittsburgh

Ashley Baia, who has put more than 30,000 miles on her car campaigning for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, was mentioned in his Tuesday speech on race. Ms. Baia is now working out of the Obama headquarters in East Liberty.

Ashley Baia is officially a footnote in political history.

No matter what else she goes on to achieve, she'll be remembered, in part, as the 9-year-old girl Sen. Barack Obama spoke of Tuesday near the end of his landmark speech on race in America.

The little girl who ate mustard and relish sandwiches for a year.

"I'm a field organizer and I get to be a part of this," said Ms. Baia, 23, of Venice, Fla., yesterday at Obama headquarters in East Liberty. "So, every day is pretty great in general."

Being mentioned in what some predict will be one of the most remembered speeches in American political history, is just icing on the cake, she said.

"It's a cool thing," said Ms. Baia, quite unassuming and Bohemian prep in her khaki pants, green-and-white striped Oxford shirt, tan pullover V-necked sweater and flip flops. "I just think of my story as just my story. ... I don't feel my story is any more important than anyone else's."

I guess, I didn't really doubt that it was, really, but man... A real person now an adult?

Weird

Cool.

David

that made me tear up. and it still does.