Obama Goes After Republicans On His Own
(CBS)
(KANSAS CITY, MO.) - Democrats may be getting heat for not going after John McCain on the first day of the Convention, but Barack Obama wasted no time attacking his opponent today.
“I just don't think he gets it. He is out of touch. I don't think he realizes what ordinary American families are going through,” Obama said as a small crowd applauded.
Speaking at an overhaul base for American Airlines, Obama focused on the ailing economy and tried to prove that he is the candidate who identifies most with the middle class.
“Who has a track record of fighting for you?” he asked, “’Cause that’s what you need – you need somebody who every single day gets it and understands that you’re not looking for a handout.”
Obama’s jabs were not limited to McCain, as he tried to put blame on the Bush Administration and the Republican Party.
“Over the last eight years, you’ve been falling behind, over the last eight years, your lives are less secure, over the last eight years, you are more likely to have lost your health insurance, over the last eight years you are more likely to not be able to save, over the last eight years your home values have started to drop,” Obama said.
However, he tried to portray a more prosperous time during the Clinton presidency, when he says Americans were earning substantially more. “When Bill Clinton was president the typical family income went up $6,200,” Obama said, “Up under Democrats, down under this administration.”
Hillary Clinton will address the Convention tonight while Bill Clinton speaks tomorrow evening.
War Mongers,
Only for the Rich,
Racists,
Dilussional,
Divisive,
Hateful,
Lack Vision for this Country,
Bigots
Posted by mr2258
Conservatives have nothing positive to run on:
Perpetual War, Mismanaging of Federal Treasury Funds, and Fear Mongering.
Increased Governmental $pending while cutting Taxes to the Wealthy.
Unfair Taxation of the Middle Class.
High prices for GASOLINE, Electricity, and Everything Else!
High Medical Costs and Prescription Drugs.
Pollution.
Invasion of Privacy, and disregard for our Constitution.
Corruption, Corruption, Corruption.
Religious Hypocrisy and Abuse of Tax Laws.
Politicalization of the Justice Department.
Degradation of our Infrastructure.
Continued export of American Jobs to overseas Slave Labor.
Decline in US stature and respect of the World Community.
and, yet many (most) Republicans will vote against their better interests...again.
Inside sources say Obama''''s recent plane trouble was an orchestrated publicity fraud to gain public sympathy and take away attention from his pattern of distracting and polarizing the public with playing the race card and the rich against poor card. Apparently Obama is full of them!!!!! This may be another one of them....
Don%u2019t forget about Obama%u2019s inability to reach Hillary%u2019s 80% of the forgotten people?
Inside sources say Obama''s recent plane trouble was an orchestrated publicity fraud to gain public sympathy and take away attention from his pattern of distracting and polarizing the public with playing the race card and the rich against poor card in trying to polarize the public. Apparently Obama is full of them!!!!!
I don''t think so....
McCain ''08
I am guided by his words. It is time for the next generation to put that education to work and provide the leadership that will make the world a better place. I will work for Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. Join in this effort. Make our nation proud!
He''s beginning to remind us of the old TV Batman series in the ''60s. You remember Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin when they would get in their fights with The Joker, and The Penguin and The Riddler, and the rest. The cartoon signs would be inserted in big letters on the screen: BANG! BONK! DING! BOINK! ZING! ZAP! ZOWIE! POW!....I knew you''d remember....It seems John only remembers POW! and inserts GOP! occasionally...Not enough for a tv show, and certainly not enough for a sequel!
Yelling POW! every time he forgets where a country is, or how many homes he has, or whether Sunni''s and Shia''s and Kurd''s like each other, or why he never learned much about economics other than to marry into it, or why affordable healthcare and the housing and mortgage crisis mean something to middle income Americans and why their taxes should be lowered not the multi-millionaires, simply will not suffice as a convincing argument.
I respect your service; I respect your status; but you are treating it like a joke when you ignore issues and throw out the word POW! like it is your magic wand. It means more than that to the other 600 prisoners of war who were brought home also.
Be careful of government healthcare, look at other countries, you have to wait forever to get a doctor.
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by notbuynit
August 27, 2008 3:17 PM PDT
- There is still plenty of time for Johnny Shot Down to trip up on his own. His age and experience may not carry him through after all. Even if he does get elected somehow, he will be even weaker than Bush. Able to do almost nothing without a lot of cooperation. It''s almost meaningless for him to be President. He will have no power either way.
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