Obama Today

By: Allison O'Keefe
Topics: Barack Obama

From CBS News' Allison O'Keefe

(CHICAGO) - Back in the U.S. and back on the campaign trail, Barack Obama now turns his focus to domestic issues.

Obama flies to Washington, D.C. this morning where he will meet with economic leaders including Warren Buffett, Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger, and Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.

Not only is he focusing on the economy today, but Obama still needs to choose a running mate. The last time he was in Washington, Obama met privately with his search team and he is expected to do the same on this trip.

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by edward0275 July 29, 2008 2:28 AM EDT: Depression, here we come!; Reply to this comment


by edward0275 July 29, 2008 2:26 AM EDT: Depression, here we come!; Reply to this comment


by edward0275 July 29, 2008 2:25 AM EDT: Depression, here we come!; Reply to this comment


by edward0275 July 29, 2008 2:21 AM EDT: Depression, here we come!; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 July 28, 2008 5:19 PM EDT: The Conservative Agenda will draw the wealth away from the American Middle Class and continue to divert it towards the top 1%. John McSame has admitted to not being very knowledgeable about economy. McSane%u2019s top adviser on Economics was former Senator Phil Gramm. Gramm, expressed the McCain Conservative Agenda as that Americans were simply Whiners and the economic set back and recession in our standard of living was all in our heads.

Phil Gramm who is responsible for the Enron loophole allowing for the abuse of futures trading in Energy, Mortages, and Oil has been excused by the McLame Campaign but, the Agenda still remains.

NOW, THIS ISN%u2019T CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN, my friendz.; Reply to this comment


by obbcbs July 28, 2008 5:10 PM EDT: To clarify the lies and empty rhetoric about taxes.

Obama will ELIMINATE all taxes on persons and families whose income is BELOW the federally establish POVERTY level. That''s 10 million people.

McCain''s plan, like Bush''s, lowers taxes for the richest 1%.; Reply to this comment


by obbcbs July 28, 2008 5:07 PM EDT: McCain fired his financial advisor. He admits he is not aware of the nuances of economics.
After all, he attended a military school, where he was close to dead last in his class, while Obama was straight A''s at Harvard and was on the Harvard Law review, a great honor for the best and the brightest.
What McCain knows is adultery, McCain has more confessed adulteries than the combined Kennedy clan, including Peter Lawford.; Reply to this comment


by ob08 July 28, 2008 4:06 PM EDT: McSame said over the weekend that he would raise taxes....once again, he is moving towards Obama''s posiition.

McSame''s record regarding the armed forces has not be great. He recently refused to back the GI bill which President Obama supported, so for McSame to say that President Obama does not support the troops is a desperation on his part. The funny thing is that the video McSame is showing of President Obama playing basketball was with the troops when he visited Kuwait. How dump is that.
No substance - nothing to run on.
All I have to say is that right now President Obama is setting the agenda. McSame and lier Bush are doing everything that President Obama has suggested, troop withdrawal timetable, sending more troops to Afghanistan, diplomatic talks with allies including Iran etc., etc. I love it.

God Bless President Obama; Reply to this comment


by peterp111 July 28, 2008 3:22 PM EDT: After Obama%u2019s speech to an estimated 200,000 Germans in Berlin, a columnist for Britain%u2019s Guardian newspaper began his review this way: %u201CBarack Obama has found his people. But, unfortunately for his election prospects, they''re German, not American.%u201D

Obama''s speech to the Germans left much to be desired, from an American%u2019s perspective.

For starters, the crowd%u2019s size was beefed up by the fact that the event was billed as a free rock concert for German citizens, with popular musical performers helping to draw the big crowd. Scant U.S. media even noted the warm-up rock draws of reggae artist Patrice and rock band Reamonn.

Then there was the simple stage, with the podium surrounded by three potted plants. Missing was the American flag -- nowhere to be seen. Perhaps Obama%u2019s staff might consider the U.S. flag offensive.

And then there was his speech, in which he proudly proclaimed he was in Germany as a %u201Ca fellow citizen of the world.%u201D

And there was the spectacle of the presidential wannabe going to a foreign land to apologize about the United States.; Reply to this comment


by ariel133 July 28, 2008 2:52 PM EDT: Barack Obama will raise taxes on families making $250,000 or more but pledges that anyone earning $150,000 or less will get a tax cut under his proposed budget plan.

IN THIS ECONOMY, FOR ONE, 200K ISN''T ALOT; SO THOSE WHO WILL MAKE, FOR INSTANCE, 199K A YEAR WILL NOT WANT TO MAKE MORE BECAUSE THEY WILL BE TAXED MORE- AND EVIDENTALLY EARN LESS ANYWAY-

OBAMA IS AN IDIOT, NOT ME- YOU FOOLS...BELIEVE IN YOUR FAIRY TALES AND GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

LIKE CLINTON ONCE SAID- OBAMA BELIEVES "THE SKY WILL OPEN AND ALL THE ILLS OF THE WORLD WILL DISAPPATE" IF YOU BELIEVE IN THAT FANTASY THINKING OBAMA WILL SAVE YOUR SORRY A-- YOU ARE MORE DUMB THAN ORIGINALLY IMAGINED.; Reply to this comment