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Article: Kaine endorses Obama at Richmond fundraiser.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2007
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Byline: WARREN FISKE
RICHMOND -- BY Warren Fiske
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
RICHMOND - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama challenged 4,000 Democratic activists to have "the audacity of hope" on Saturday night and gained a key endorsement for his presidential bid from Gov. Timothy M. Kaine.
"We need a different kind of politics," Obama said during his keynote speech at the state Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. "It's time to turn the page on the grimness, pettiness and gridlock of the last few years."
Obama, an Illinois Democrat, called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, labeling the war a "tragic mistake."
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