Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Person lifts, tries to sell Obama speech

|
|
 
  
Published: Nov. 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A pilfered binder holding U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's campaign stump speech on change apparently has shown up on the eBay auction site.

A self-identified "volunteer staff member" spirited away the binder and speech from a Las Vegas podium during the final, hectic days before the Nov. 4 election and listed it on the Internet auction site, the Los Angeles Times reported.

So far, no bids have been posted for the "Rare Sen. Obama authored speech" with a starting price of $2,500 and a Tuesday closing.

Obama is said to have written the seminal speech on race, but most of his other speeches are penned by staff and delivered by the candidate, the Times said.

Topics: Barack Obama
Recommended Stories
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Cow helps shy Englishman propose to his cow-crazy girlfriend. Thanks, Rosie
Your Canadian girlfriend just won an award for how many wieners she can stick in her mouth
Not news: Man gets probation for driving erratically, runing into a wall, getting stuck, and blowing...
Family forced to flee their apartment after their upstairs neighbors start shooting into the floor...
Ladies mount your poles. The RNC is coming
If you ever did win the lottery, would you give it away or surprise people with it in fun ways?