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For Obama, First Bowling, Now Hockey

April 05, 2008 11:58 AM

ABC's Sunlen Miller reports: “Uffda,” Obama said, delighting nearly 17,000 North Dakota residents in a colloquial Norwegian term of the region at the annual North Dakota State Democratic Convention.

Obama used the local slang -- which roughly translates to "Oh, my!" -- when he was given a hockey stick from the University of North Dakota Sioux , whose hockey team who is heading into the "Frozen Four" championship.

“I am deeply honored and thankful to get that hockey stick,” Obama said after he raised it high over his head. “It will have a place of honor in my office, but I promise you I will not wield it because my hockey game is worse than my bowling.”

He was given the stick by supporter Sen. Byron Dorgan.

Obama told the North Dakota crowd in a caucus state he handily won that they do matter in the general election.

“I know there’s been some talk that maybe states like North Dakota don’t count all that much in this process. Some people think that Democrats can’t win in North Dakota. Some people think it’s just a fly-over state. Well, I’ll tell you what: We didn’t fly over North Dakota. We landed. We competed in this caucus, we won this caucus, and we will keep competing in this state all the way to November.”

Offering more of a critique of Republican John McCain than his Democratic opponent who spoke later in the evening, Obama said the Republicans are a party of the past.

“The Republicans running for president could’ve offered this path, but their primary became nothing more than a contest to see who was best qualified to run for George Bush’s third term. John McCain won that contest, and now he’s offering four more years of the very same policies that failed us for the last eight.”

He said McCain offers a “cant-do, won’t do, won’t-even-try style of politics.”

Obama said regardless of the Democratic nominee, that person would do a better job than John McCain.

“No matter how long or heated this primary contest gets, I believe that either Sen. Clinton or I would do a far better job of leading this country over the next four years than John McCain.  That is something that we can all agree to,” Obama said and offered up his feelings for the unity of the Democratic Party after the extended primary. “So I don’t worry abut the fact that this contest has gone on a long time. We’re doing fine.”

April 5, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (21)

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