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Obama Does Housework

Candidate works with a home health care worker for a day

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 9, 2007 8:52 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Barack Obama mopped, dusted, and made breakfast for an elderly amputee yesterday as a precondition for gaining endorsement from the powerful Service Employees Union. Accompanied by a throng of photographers, Obama helped a caregiver perform her daily duties, and did his best to please. "Is this the way he likes it?" he asked when making the bed.

The union requires that all candidates participate in the "Walk a Day in My Shoes" program to be considered for endorsement (although Obama's work actually only lasted two hours).  "I'm not going to lie to you. It's been a while," said Obama after mop duty. Hillary Clinton is scheduled to help out a Las Vegas nurse next month.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, puts sugar on John Thorton's cereal as home health care worker Pauline Beck, center, looks on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Obama went to work with Beck as part of a program by the Service Employees International Union called Walk...
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, puts sugar on John Thorton's cereal as home health care worker Pauline Beck, center, looks on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Oakland, Calif....   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is introduced by home health care worker Pauline Beck, right, during a news conference in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. Obama worked with Pauline Beck at the home of her 87 year old client as part of the SEIU Walk a Day...
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is introduced by home health care worker Pauline Beck, right, during a news conference in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. Obama worked...   (Associated Press)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., dusts the bedside table at the home of John Thornton Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Obama went to work with home health care worker Pauline Beck as part of a program by the Service Employees International Union called Walk a Day...
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., dusts the bedside table at the home of John Thornton Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. Obama went to work with home health care worker...   (Associated Press)
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