Obama’s Indiana Family Day
(CBS)
From CBS News’ Maria Gavrilovic:
LAFAYATTE, IND. -- After enduring several weeks of criticism from his opponents who have argued that he is out of touch and elitist, Barack Obama worked hard today to prove his rivals wrong. With his wife and daughters by his side, Obama met with small crowds at several retail stops through out central Indiana in an effort to reintroduce himself to middle class voters.
His wife Michelle told a crowd of several hundred at Forest Park in Noblesville that they wanted to host a family day. “Our hope is that when we get into the White House, the White House will be a place where children and family become the core of everything that happens out of that building.” She called her husband the “underdog” in the race for the White House, and urged voters to turn out on Tuesday. “We can't take anything for granted,” she said. “Not a thing. Everybody has to vote."
As the Obamas spoke to the crowd, their daughters, Malia and Sasha, played in the park with the other children. The girls seemed to enjoy themselves, and appeared comfortable in the limelight. Obama noted that his daughters have grown since he announced his candidacy. “I think Malia’s about a foot taller,” he said. “And Sasha’s about half of the roundness - now she’s this long beanpole, so you know this has been a long contest, a long race.”
The Obamas also visited his family’s former Indiana homestead in Kempton, which was once owned by his second, third and fourth maternal great-grandfathers. According to the campaign, Jacob Dunham, Obama’s fourth great-grandfather, moved to Kempton in the 1840’s. “Welcome to the Dunham homestead!” Obama said to the press as he walked onto the property.
He wrapped up “family day” at Great Skates roller rink in Lafayette, where his daughters courageously strapped on skates and took a lap around the rink as photographers marked their every move. Their parents walked in shoes as the girls tried to skate.
Obama will continue campaigning in the Hoosier state tomorrow, where he is expected to make several more retail stops.
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
Posted by truthyness
And what proof do you offer to back up your outrageous statement? I guess you think that we should all just take your assertion as truth because you use the word in your on-line name. Your observation about Americans certainly applies...to yourself.
The Clintons are willing to USE the american people to get what they want. They are willing to lie, cheat, steal, destroy, and take whatever they can to get into power. They have done a considerable amount of underhanded things and they play both sides of the issues in whatever way it serves them.
Senator Obama cares about how he wins and how he treats people. He has been incredibly restrained about not attacking the Clintons in the typical style of ''dirty'' politics even though it''s being done to him. His own values won''t let him do it. He doesn''t want to win that way.
I love Michelle Obama and I think she will be an excellent first lady.
I am grateful to Senator & Michele Obama for being willing to go through this ugly battle to bring much needed change to our country.
Thank you.
I am a 44 yr old, white, woman, single mother, business owner born and raised in Indiana.. now living in Colorado... and I approve this message.
lol, I talk to my pastor every day and night. I live with him!
Your HONEST Obama lied right out of the box when he said he is above politics as usual! He''s lied more times than Bush/Cheney!
Good people do not LIE!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/3/173827/4408/20/508482
http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/607790.html
Whatever you are trying to sew to him - it is NOT about him, but something close.
Do anyone want to be judge by your neigbor''s performance, thoughts and ideas???
How much do you know about your pastor''s ideas?
I bet - just 10 % ever talk to their paster.
Judge Yourself FIRST.
What sort of stupidity do you have ignoring Cli ntons dirty phony , but sewing paster to the Candidate.
LKook at HIM, personally.
Look at her, with all her OWN PERSONAL dirt and make a proposal, how she will continue to fool EVERYONE.
Do not touch private life with Your dirty hands.
All clintonists are Idiots
Thank God even Hoosier democrats are conservative and won''t listen to his krap.
Oh baloney! The government would have to honor all the contracts it has which usually run a couple of years!
All this tripe about people losing their jobs is horse hockey Obama scare tactics!
Email this link to everyone you know.
thanks
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05022008/watch.html
150 Economists, including 3 Nobel Prize Winners, issued an open letter today opposing suspension of gas tax for the summer and called it a bad public policy:
Brookings'' Henry Aaron sends over a statement (.pdf) signed today by 150 economists opposing the gas tax holiday. They include Nobelists Joe Stiglitz, James Heckman and Daniel Kahneman, as well as a Clinton O.M.B. director, Alice Rivlin, and Robert Shapiro, the chief economic adviser to Bill Clinton''s 1992 campaign. The letter says "Signers of this letter are Democrats, Republicans and Independents.%u201D
Link for the open letter here:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080502_list_gastax.html
Besides, the suspension would cost 7000 construction jobs in NC because of the lost $9 billion highway fund!
- by dewardbowles May 4, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
- It is worth noting that the primary in NC and IN and ultimately the election hinge on a bet by two of the candidates that low information voters will believe their preposterous assertions that a gas tax holiday will help them pay their fuel bills this summer.
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See all 18 CommentsAnyone with a high school level education in economics will tell you a gas tax holiday will actually have the effect of raising gasoline prices. The consumer will simply never see a dime and the oil companies will make even higher profits. Not to mention the fact that it might put as many as 300.000 people out of work when the country is reeling from job losses or drive our debt even higher.
It is simply impossible to even suggest that such a measure could be introduced much less pass through congress before the end of the summer given nobody but McCain and Clinton support it in congress.
We are witnessing an epic and historic clash of old and new politics, one rooted in pander and deception of the past and one with the promise of truth and transparency.
My vote is for Senator Obama