Obama: Rural Ohio has nothing to fear (The Toledo Blade)

4 September 2008, 2:20 am

DILLONVALE, Ohio - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama took his campaign into rural Ohio yesterday, telling people gathered outside a barn not to worry about his "funny name," but rather to believe in his promise to raise up the middle class. Mr. Obama made fun of what he said would be a Republican effort to sow fear about him. "People are going to say he's got a funny name. They ...... read more

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