Here's a video I compiled from Obama's visit and press conference earlier today.

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Obama is off the stage. His speech took about 45 minutes. I'll be bringing some video and audio later this afternoon.

Obama, parodying his critics, just called himself a "hopemonger."

Barack Obama is slamming John McCain for his pro-war stance, saying he's happy to debate him about it.

He says the Arizona senator is "perpetuating the failed Bush (foreign) policies."

Need more comparisons between an Obama rally and a Beatles concert?

A woman in attendance apparently just fainted.

Barack Obama is talking about changes in health care.

"We're not going to wait to do this. We're going to do this by the end of my first term!" he told the crowd.

First term? Sounds like there's no four-and-out for him if he wins.

Remember the story about Sen. Barack Obama and Vice President Dick Cheney being distant relatives? Obama just joked about it:

It’s kind of embarrassing to be related to Dick Cheney. You always kind of expect to be related to somebody cool. That was a bit of a letdown.

Early in the speech, someone from the crowd yelled, “I love you!”

Cheers.

Obama smiled. “Well, I love you back.”

More cheers.

Obama just stepped on stage. I've been at KeyArena many times for SuperSonics games, but I've never heard it this loud.

Then again, I think Obama has won more states than the Sonics have games this year.

Gov. Chris Gregoire said she decided to endorse Obama after lots of "soul-searching and debating." She drew the loudest cheers so far.

Rep. Adam Smith is on the stump now. Usual boilerplate stuff, but here's the best quote so far:

He is right on the issues. On health care. On energy. On changing our foreign policy. He’s right on the issues, but he’s the only person in this race with ability to deliver. The only persopn with the ability to bring people together and make those changes.

They just introduced Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. There were a significant amount of boos when he walked to the stage.

But here's how he started off:

"I gave the fire chief the day off today," he said. "This building holds 18,000 people and we are over capacity!"

No boos there.

It took a little work, but I'm inside KeyArena. It's at capacity, and the crowd is rocking in here. They're chanting, doing the wave and singing along to the music thumping from the speakers.

Thousands of people who couldn't get in are outside chanting Obama.

The press follows Sen. Barack Obama -- and all the presidential candidates -- like a hip-hop star's entourage. During the factory visit, here's just the photographers and videographers hoping to get shots of the candidate.

Throughout the McKinstry Company’s buildings, banners tout the manufacturing company’s commitment to green technology. Sen. Barack Obama used the Seattle company’s building as a venue to tout his climate-change proposals.

Before hosting a press conference in which he promoted his plans, he toured the company’s warehouse, cafeteria and offices. He strode among workers shooting sparks into the sky with their welders in the warehouse, and he stopped to sign one worker’s copy of “Audacity of Hope,” a book he authored in 2006.

Upon one wall of the warehouse sits several dozen sheet-metal jerseys – hung like retired jerseys at a baseball stadium – with long-time employees’ names and the years they worked. There was a jersey for Obama with the number 8.

“Congratulations McKinstry on doing such a great job!” Obama signed it.

He then moved to the company’s cafeteria and walked through a cubicle-filled office, shaking hands and chatting along the way.

During the press conference, one reporter asked the candidate about the significance of Washington’s caucuses Saturday.

“Many in Washington state thought our vote wouldn’t count,” the reporter said.

The senator cut him off.

“It does now,” he said to applause.

Pete and I are out of the press conference. Obama talked mostly about his climate-change proposals, but he also touched on gun control, whether superdelegates should vote against their constituents' will and other topics.

I'll post some videos and more details soon.

Pete Callaghan and I are heading up to Seattle a little bit early. Democratic candidate Barack Obama is touring the McKinstry Company, a mechanical engineering company in Seattle. He’ll have a press conference afterward, and I’ll post some video from that later today.

I’m going political the next two days. I’ll be covering a Democratic caucus on Saturday, and today I’ll be at KeyArena for a Barack Obama rally. I’ll be cross-posting stuff on Political Buzz, too.

No word if Obama Girl will be there: