Former President Barack Obama is marking the retirement of the South Carolina woman credited with popularizing the chant “Fired up, ready to go!”
FILE - Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, laughs with Greenwood County, S.C., Council Woman, Edith Childs, right, in Aiken, S.C., on Oct. 6, 2007. Obama is marking the retirement of the South Carolina woman credited with popularizing the chant"Fired up, ready to go!" The chant came to epitomize Obama's two presidential campaigns. The former president says Childs' energy played a key role in lifting his spirits and his candidacy. COLUMBIA, S.C.
“Leadership and power and inspiration can come from anywhere,” Obama said in the video to mark Childs’ retirement after 24 years on the Greenwood County Council. “It just has to do with spirit, and nobody embodied that better than Edith.” This week, Childs told the AP that she had come to know the “fired up” verbiage from its use decades ago, the words energizing participants during NAACP voter registration drives.
Childs attended several events with the Obama family at the White House during his presidential tenure, led delegates in the chant during the 2012 Democratic National Convention and sat with first lady Michelle Obama at her husband'sIn the years since, the chant has become ingrained in South Carolina’s Democratic political scene. Politicians, including state Sen. Marlon Kimpson, regularly use it to amp up crowds at rallies across the state.
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