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Obama Knocks On Doors In Iowa

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By AMY LORENTZEN, The Associated Press

Published: October 14, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Barack Obama knocked on doors in the Iowa capital Saturday, talking up his opposition to the war in Iraq.

At one stop, Obama got a warm welcome from a woman who said the visit might persuade her to attend the Democratic presidential caucus in January.

'I'm flabbergasted that he's here knocking on my neighborhood door,' Jody Degard told reporters after the visit from the Illinois senator.

Degard, who works for a local cable company, said she has narrowed her choice to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Obama.

'I'm quite pleased that somebody is that local,' she said. The war, she said, is an important issue. 'I think it's time to send our troops home.'

Obama spent about an hour going door to door on Des Moines' east side. He started the day by encouraging supporters to talk to fellow Iowans about the war in Iraq.

'The main thing that we want to communicate today is that this war that we've been fighting in Iraq has got to stop, that we can no longer afford $275 million a day spent on a civil war between factions in Iraq where there is no military solution to be had, that it's time for us to begin bringing our young men and women home: They have been there long enough,' Obama said at a high school.

'All across the state, people are gathering together just like they are gathering together here to go out and start knocking on doors and talking to folks about how we can bring about big change in America,' he said.

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