Obama in Butte for the 4th of July

Sen. Barack Obama celebrated Independence Day in the mining city with his family. Check out our photo gallery, and click on the image for a larger version.

By Alexia Beckerling, 7-05-08

Sen. Barack Obama chose to celebrate the Fourth of July in Butte with his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Malia and Sasha. The Obama family attended the Independence Day Parade and hosted a “family picnic” at Montana Tech where Obama gave a brief speech, cooked hamburgers and chatted casually to fans. Photos by Alexia Beckerling

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By frank blunt, 2-16-06

This is a comment upon "battleground" I feel the objectivity was fair to both points of view, though I would like to point out, one of the "officers" was to the effect, whether to kill others would have to be a "decision made by others" As long as that is the amount of thought our country"persons" choose to expound, I wonder how were ever gonna win a war, believing, myself, we live in a supposed "democracy" I find things disturbing that we "export" this, (Democracy) when, in reallity, we haven't quite perfected it here ... CAPITALISM CAN DESTROY THE WORLD, OR HELP LENGHTHEN OUR TIME HERE ON THE PLANET, but it's gonna require thought children, give the shishkabob a chance to enhance without false promises ...

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