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Obama on CSPAN LIVE Sunday @ 11:30am

CSPAN (CH 18 Cable) will carry Sen. Obama LIVE at  11:30AM.  Here is the link to the schedule.

Speech: Civil Rights Issues

• Sen. Barack Obama
• Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, AL)

Campaign could smash social barriers in '08

2008 will go down in American history as the election that changed America...for the better.

From Reuters:

American voters have a chance to shatter social barriers in 2008, when either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton could snap the unbroken string of white men in the White House.

Obama, vying to be the first black president, and Clinton, expected to launch a bid to be the first woman president, bring diversity to a pack of presidential contenders that could test attitudes and tolerance among U.S. voters.

Despite huge political strides in recent years, no black or woman candidate has seriously challenged for the White House. The campaigns of Obama and Clinton, early Democratic favorites, could help answer questions about whether America is ready to put a black or a woman in the Oval Office.

"I think the country is at a point where voters will seriously look at a black or a woman candidate and support them if they like what they see," said David Bositis, a political analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which researches issues affecting blacks.

"The change in public attitudes is massive and real and it can be seen in the number of women and blacks being elected to office around the country," said Tom Smith, director of social surveys at the National Opinion Research Center.