Three of us Daily folks drove out to Cobo in Detroit to see this guy, Barack Obama, speak at an NAACP event. He's one of those up-and-comers that everyone talks about.

10,000 people.

The guy from DOC donated a buncha cash so he made an appearance for appearances sake.

Among the actually important people were state reps like Debbie Stabenow. They all realize you're taking photos and therefore try to look as noble as possible. Power of the press.

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

and yet another rep. Not to state the obvious but here were a lot of important people out there.

Carl Levin, another rep

Obama's as charismatic guy as everyone else says and a good (also easy to photograph) speaker. Made for an interesting road trip to cover news too. With the summer weekly paper it looks like we'll be covering more stuff outside-a Ann Arbor. Speaking of which, in the next entry I put up I'm off to Farmington Hills.

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