Obama Takes His Message To Record Crowd
(CBS)
PORTLAND, ORE. -- With just two days left until the May 20 primaries, Barack Obama continued to campaign in Oregon today, drawing a massive crowd at an outdoor rally here, his largest crowd to date according to the campaign. They estimated that 75,000 people were in attendance, citing the Portland fire chief.
Noticeably absent from Obama’s campaign schedule in the coming days are stops in Kentucky. When asked if he has given up on state’s primary, where Hillary Clinton holds double-digit lead in the polls, Obama said he doesn’t give up on anything.
“I don’t give up on things, we've gotta make choices and we can’t be everywhere at once,” Obama told reporters after making a local stop for ice cream with his family.
Obama’s top advisers have argued that May 20 will be a pivotal day for the campaign because they will have gained the majority of elected pledged delegates. Even though Obama said he will not declare victory on Tuesday, he said he will have a stronger case to present to superdelegates.
“We will have the majority of pledged delegates at that point and obviously are going to make the argument to any superdelegates remaining that we should be the nominee,” Obama said.
Publicly the campaign has said they will not encourage Clinton to drop out of the race and will leave that decision up to her. However, Obama has altogether stopped criticizing her on the stump and has ratcheted up his rhetoric against John McCain.
“I just want everybody to understand, that Senator Clinton and I have had a terrific contest, she has been a formidable candidate, she has been smart and tough and determined and she has worked as hard as she can. And she has run an extraordinary campaign, it has been an extraordinary campaign,” Obama said here today.
“And look, we have real differences on certain issues, but whatever differences exist between myself and Senator Clinton pale in comparison to the differences with the other side.”
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See all 79 CommentsUhh they don''t look all "young" to me, nor do they look like they are there to see a rock star. They are there to see the next president of the United States.
Astounding. I can''t think of a politician that draws these kinds of crowds. It''s a grass roots movement that is beginning to sweep the country. I am lucky to have seen him close up before everyone caught on.
Obama in 08
I do not in any way mean to be disrespectful to Clinton supporters but it is time to end this frivolous and petty party infighting. We have an election to win in November. This country cannot survive another 8 years of failed policies.
Want to know why they and all the DNC voted NOT to count such states as MICH that went ahead of NH? Because if you have a very small state first, anyone can run.
If you have MICH and Florida first with 35 million people, only the rich and famous will be able to run. The document Clinton''s 11 people ALL signed LAST year, said "we vote this way so that money cannot buy the election."
The idea is: you can be an unknown person and go to the six small towns in NH and you can be heard, without having to be rich or a famous name. She was taped on National Public Radio saying that she agreed with the ruling not to count MICH specifically, when she was in NH campaigning.
Does that make her a liar, now, when she omits these facts? There are errors of commision and errors of omission. This seems a bit of both, doesnt it? She is forgetting the Bible says, Exodus 20:16 "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour".
People of Kentucky:
The 10 commandments apply to us all, both sexes, all races.
Want to know why they and all the DNC voted NOT to count such states as MICH? Because if you have a small state first, anyone can run.
If you have MICH and Florida first with 35 million people, only the rich and famous will be able to run. The document HRCs people ALL signed LAST year, said "we vote this way so that money cannot buy the election."
The idea is: you can be an unknown person and go to the six small towns in NH and you can be heard, without having to be rich or a famous name. She actually told NPR that she agreed with the vote not to count MICH specifically, when she was in NH campaigning.
Does that make her a liar, now, when she omits these facts? There are errors of commision and errors of omission. This seems a bit of both, doesnt it? She has lost her moral compass in her lust for the office. In Exodus, "thou shalt not bear false witness". the 10 commandments apply to us all, both sexes, all races.
Thank you. And, the war on terror is a pretext to take away our rights as citizens. Two remaining candidates would restore habeas corpus, our right to be charged with an actual crime, and see evidence and cross examine witnesses.
Only Ron Paul and Barack Obama. Voters of both parties should choose to restore democracy and say "no thanks", to the Senators who say there is a terrorist under every bed. TAKE BACK our Constitution.
Vote Obama or Paul on Tuesday.
The right wing slime say things like Obama is the anti Christ because they are appealing to people who are looking for an excuse to be misled. For the longest time, they were saying that he is a Muslim. Now that that is obviously not true, they try more slime. Since their readers are into such claims as the end of the world, they are vulnerable.
Be sure to keep up the good work, without targeting the ones who tend to fall for that stuff.
I saw that stuff early in the campaign, people pretending to know what Nostradamus said.
It is all rubbish. No one can say what he meant.
So they pick on their opponent and paint him with slime. They were saying that HRC is a socialist, when she was the leading candidate.
No claim is too low for them. It will take diligence to address these false claims without antagonizing the innocent.
I heard what I had hoped to hear. Emphasis on health care, global warming, ending the war in Iraq, and joining together for a common cause - not politics for the sake of getting elected!
I heard what I had hoped to hear. Emphasis on health care, global warming, ending the war in Iraq, and joining together for a common cause - not politics for the sake of getting elected!
I heard what I had hoped to hear. Emphasis on health care, global warming, ending the war in Iraq, and joining together for a common cause - not politics for the sake of getting elected!
I heard what I had hoped to hear. Emphasis on health care, global warming, ending the war in Iraq, and joining together for a common cause - not politics for the sake of getting elected!
I heard what I had hoped to hear. Emphasis on health care, global warming, ending the war in Iraq, and joining together for a common cause - not politics for the sake of getting elected!
Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 11:32 PM : May 18, 2008
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Your sense of humor is like your candidate''s chances at the nomination -''none existent''.
Posted by ERoosevelt08 at 11:19 PM : May 18, 2008
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Another lame attempt by a Hilly supporter. Those are some old arguments that have passed -but go ahead if it makes you feel better.
''Sweetie''? That''s silly. Do yourself a favor and quite embarrasing yourself.
This was a big crowd folks, McCain and Hillary combined have never drawn this many people to a rally.
still.
It takes time.
And we should explain, why we are backing Obama. Again and again.
One of the most : when he is talking, the Major word is "WE", when clintons" I" ( look at banners : our - "Change", clintonist''s - "hillary". feel the difference?
Obama matters along with all of us.
clintons - just for clintons.
McBush....nice person , does not match in anything to be a president.
"We can''t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That''s not leadership. That''s not going to happen," he added. End quote.
Typical liberal, telling the masses they cannot have what America stands for. He also is telling folks that McCain wants to take away our SS. Thats typical Liberal campaign talk. We need to get these fat cats in Washington, to stop feeling our pain an do something about it. Talk is cheap.
When it comes to the Oil situation, McCain is no better.
Obama is so unqualified it is just plain scary.........
What is it with so many of the Republicons that they are always so scared of everything?
Posted by jack3213
We the people in order to form a better nation. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
When did it all go astray?
Make this election an historic 21st Century turning point in our national politics when the American people had their modern day resurgence to tear down the ivory towers of political cronyism and arrogance.
If the people dont win this one, if the people dont make politicians answerable now to us then we the people might not get another chance to really change the course of our prevailing political descent into an abyss of public desolation.
All those in power must play or pay by our rules not some privileged artificial construct of democracy without public accountability or rebuke.
Voters fix your bayonets of virtue and lunge toward a ballot box near you to save our nation from the enemy within.
Vote for them in political battle trenches isolating our nations leaders from their own citizens and putrefying spirit and intent of our countries founding principles.
If required, vote with your best gut instinct not with your party politics.
SO did Hitler.
The real question would be if Wright has such admiration of Hamas and Obama being Wrights Mentor and Uncle. Did Wright Mentor Obama into supporting Hamas.
SO did Hitler.
The real question would be if Wright has such admiration of Hamas and Obama being Wrights Mentor and Uncle. Did Wright Mentor Obama into supporting Hamas.
Posted by obama8years at 08:42 AM : May 19, 2008
You post reminds me of the scene in Monty Python and The Holy Grail where the peasants are trying to determine if the woman is, indeed, a witch and should be burned at the stake.
SO did Hitler.
The real question would be if Wright has such admiration of Hamas and Obama being Wrights Mentor and Uncle. Did Wright Mentor Obama into supporting Hamas.
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Posted by obama8years
HA HA HA!!! The real question is why John McCain is losing all of his key LOBBIST fundraisers, or does McCain share the same hatred for Catholics as the Reverend Hagee, whom endorsement he so feverishly pursued.
"That''s not leadership. That''s not going to happen," he added.
hmmmm.....
Perhaps he wants us to live like poor Africans?
hot houses with flies....
No thanks.
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