Obama Formally Enters Presidential Race

Here's the NYT article about Obama's announcement of his candidacy.  The challenges are going to get A LOT more pointed than this:

Some Democrats, including Mr. Obama’s opponents, seem increasingly game to challenge him, particularly when it comes to the substance of an Obama candidacy. Mr. Edwards offered a hint of what Mr. Obama faced in an interview the other day, as he discussed national health care, when he was asked his reaction to Mr. Obama’s views on providing national coverage.

“I haven’t seen a plan from him,” Mr. Edwards said. “Have you all?” 

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Obama Formally Enters Presidential Race

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY

Published: February 11, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/us/politics/11obama.html

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 10 — Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, standing before the Old State Capitol, where Abraham Lincoln began his political career, announced his candidacy for the White House on Saturday by presenting himself as an agent of generational change who could transform a government hobbled by cynicism, petty corruption and “a smallness of our politics.”

“The time for that politics is over,” Mr. Obama said. “It is through. It’s time to turn the page.”