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Political Play: Now, a word from Obama
posted 2:48 pm Wed June 11, 2008 - CHICAGO
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Sen. Barack Obama (web|news|bio) gave four dozen 8th graders a graduation to remember Wednesday when he unexpectedly walked onstage in the middle of their ceremony.
The mostly black crowd of students, family and friends erupted in squeals of disbelief in seeing the Democratic presidential candidate, who had just finished a hastily arranged economics forum across the hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Screams and cheers nearly drowned out his brief remarks to graduates of the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago. "I'm proud that you graduated from the 8th grade, but it's just the 8th grade," Obama said. He urged the students, all girls, to read, turn off the TV and decide "how can I make myself the best young woman I can possibly be."
Obama shook a few hands and walked off as those in the auditorium, still pinching themselves, chanted "Change, change."
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Compiled by Charles Babington
Obama shook a few hands and walked off as those in the auditorium, still pinching themselves, chanted "Change, change."
__Compiled by Charles Babington
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