Obama Touts "Track Record of Service"
(CBS)
DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS -- At a town hall meeting in a suburb of Dallas, Barack Obama assured voters that he will do his best to implement his campaign promises if he wins the presidency. He argued that his record of public service is an indication of what kind of president he will be.
"It wouldn't make sense for me to run and then suddenly act completely different from what I was doing over the course of years," Obama said.
He said that his record in the Illinois Senate and U.S. Senate are examples of his experience and a guide for his future decisions. "At every point in my career I have fought for working families, I fought to give health care to people who didn't have them. I fought to give tax breaks not to people who are rich but people who need them," Obama said.
"My track record is of service."
Obama also argued that he is obligated to voters and not to lobbyists and special interest groups. "I don't take money from federal lobbyists so I was never funded by the special interests, I was funded by you. So I don't have any string attached to me. The only people I owe are you."
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The New Republic
Race Man by Sean Wilentz
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
Post Date Wednesday, February 27, 2008
"Senator Barack Obama''''s promises of a pure, soul-cleansing "new" politics and the calculated, deeply dishonest conduct of his actually-existing campaign."
"As insidious as these tactics are, though, the Obama campaign''''s most effective gambits have been far more egregious and dangerous than the hypocritical deployment of deceptive and disingenuous attack ads. To a large degree, the campaign''''s strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, and successfully portrayed Clinton and her campaign as unscrupulous race-baiters--a campaign-within-the-campaign in which the worked-up flap over the Somali costume photograph is but the latest episode. While promoting Obama as a "post-racial" figure, his campaign has purposefully polluted the contest with a new strain of what historically has been the most toxic poison in American politics."
"Above all, it is a commentary on the cutthroat, fraudulent politics that lie at the foundation of Obama''''s supposedly uplifting campaign."
Hope that Obama is being at least 95% honest with what he is telling us.
I know the Clintons and know that I can''t believe what they say. Her (their) experience speaks for itself and I don''t want anything to do with that again. It was pointed out in the last debate, and not by Obama, that she promised to create millions of jobs for the people of New York, instead of gaining jobs they lost jobs. She, of course, blamed that on the republicans also, as she has with everything that has gone wrong in her life, including her husband''s *** life.
I ask you, how in the world can this person unite the people when she clearly cannot work with most of them?
As I said, I will be voting on the side of HOPE.