Watch Barak Obama in Asheville, NC

**5.02 pm** The text of his speech as prepared. (He veered off course toward the end of the speech).

**3.13 pm** The event is over. Please remind me not to rely on the Aheville Citizen-Times for live coverage...and it dropped out several times, so I switched over from the unreliable Mogulus player used by the AC-T to the more reliable Ustream player in the middle of his speech. I'll have a round-up of the coverage later.

Obama is in Asheville, and the lefties are loving it.

The senator has been in the area prepping for Tuesdays debate with John McCain in Nashville.

He showed up at the Vance-Aycock Dinner, and Gordon Smith got most of the speech on video.

Area Republicans will be celebrating McCain-Palin at the entrance of the High School during the event.

Barack Obama is expected to begin speaking at about 2 pm, and you can watch it here (if you have the stomach). The live coverage has already begun. I will remove the player once the event is over.



I have replaced the AC-T player with the Usteam Obama player. Which works better.
Be patient, the Asheville Citizen-Times camera operators keep cutting the camera off every once in a while. It will go black from time to time.