The Overdue Video Gallery

I've finally managed to upload the good videos I took from the event. The first one is the American national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, being sung by a Hispanic student from the high school it took place in. Now, I'm no Simon Cowell but there were definitely a few hairy notes here.

Here are Obama's opening words at the town hall meeting after the single mother had spoken. You can see it takes him a while to calm the crowd down from their religious-like fervour. Then he has to go through the adulation of all the local officials starting with his former rival, New Mexican Governor Bill Richardson. I cut him short on this one.

The following is Obama's main speech before he began fielding questions from the crowd. In this he focuses on the theme of the event, the economy, while managing to get in a few digs at Mc Cain. It's too large to upload on to the blog so click here to view it.

Here was the dicey first question asked by a member of the audience looking for an explanation as to why the Senator had compromised on his position on Iraq since the primaries. Obama's response really impressed me. It was frank, open and he effectively managed to diffuse the potentially embarrassing situation.