Obama: "I Voted!"

(CBS)

From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(CHICAGO) - Barack and Michelle Obama voted this morning just shortly after 730am central time. The Obamas, accompanied by daughters, Sasha and Malia, did not wait in the long line outside of the Beulah Shoesmith polling station in Hyde Park.

Upon arriving, the Democratic nominee walked over to a table, where he and Michelle signed in. They then walked over the voting station, where they spent about twenty minutes filling out the ballots. Obama appeared relaxed, often smiling and joking with daughter, Malia.

After casting his ballot, Obama looked over to the press and said, "I voted." Cheers erupted in the polling station.

Obama briefly shook hands with a few voters before departing the polling station.

On the airport tarmac, Obama told reporters that voting with his daughters was a "big deal."

Interestingly, shortly before Obama arrived at the school, William Ayers (the founder of the Weather Underground that John McCain and the Republicans referred to as Obama's "terrorist" friend) voted at the same polling place. Ayers and Obama missed each other by less than a few minutes.

[thisniss]

My point in the preceding post was to say that your need to point out the "Ayers Connection" just shows how effectively the McCain camp has skewed the coverage of this race on this one point. NO ONE CARES about William Ayers - including, if we''re to take him seriously, John McCain.

Why did you feel the need to ruin a perfectly good story about Obama voting with that addendum? It''s like some sort of Pavlovian newsie drool response, painstakingly trained into you by the Republican party. blech.

[thisniss]

Ayers = a guy in Obama''s neighborhood. A respected Professor of Education. A man who was NEVER convicted of ANY criminal activity. Someone with whom Obama, and many other people, interacted in the circles of Chicago politics and education reform.

G. Gordon Liddy = a convicted felon. One of Nixon''s "Plumbers." A man who firebombed the Brookings Institute and later served time for his role in the Watergate burglary. McCain''s friend.