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Published April 19, 2008 12:03 am - He came out from behind the curtain and strode to the podium, people chanting, whistling, stomping, screaming. Cameras flashing, the Lycoming College gym sweltering, cheers reaching a frenzied pitch. Obama's hot in midstate on campaign swing College gives senator too warm a reception By Damian Gessel The Daily Item WILLIAMSPORT -- He came out from behind the curtain and strode to the podium, people chanting, whistling, stomping, screaming. Cameras flashing, the Lycoming College gym sweltering, cheers reaching a frenzied pitch. Because there he was, real as the unseasonable April heat: Sen. Barack Obama had arrived in Williamsport on Friday. "Hello everybody!" he called out. More cheers. "I'm going to get rid of my jacket. It's warm in here. Reggie, would you take this?" the Democratic presidential candidate said, handing his coat to a man standing behind him. "This is Reggie Love -- he's from Duke. Any Duke fans here?" Scattered boos. "Uh oh." After Obama finished his heat-related shtick and thank yous Friday (to Lycoming College for having him, to U.S. Sen. Bob Casey for introducing him, etc.), he began a 30-minute speech about his plans for the country, touching on everything from the economy, to the environment, to Iraq, to the state of U.S. railroads. Obama, of Illinois, faces Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary election. "I'm running for president because of what Dr. King called the fierce urgency of night," Obama said of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "There's such a thing as being too late, and that hour is almost upon us now. "We have one war we need to win (Afghanistan) ... and one that never should have been waged in the first place." Obama harped on the country's spending $400 million a day -- $10 billion a month -- on the Iraq war. Money, he said, that could be put to better use at home. "Our economy is in shambles," he said. "Lycoming County's unemployment rate is the highest it's been in three years, and it's the same all over the country." Obama used this point -- the U.S. economy -- to underline a difference between him and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona. 
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