Obama Answers Republican Ridicule

CBS Evening News: Democrats Respond To The Attacks Unleashed At The GOP Convention

(CBS)  Republicans have spent days heaping scorn on Barack Obama, with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin leading the way in her debut Wednesday night, reports CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds.

"What does he actually seek to accomplish after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?" she asked an energized crowd at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. "The answer is to make government bigger."

Today, Obama fired back.

"You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true," he told a group of union workers at a hydro plant in York, Pa. "What you're not hearing about is you."

Obama said the St. Paul gathering won't discuss issues because it reminds voters of Republican failures on many fronts.

"You haven't heard a word about how we're going to deal with any aspect of the economy that is affecting you and your pocketbook."

In Virginia, running mate Joe Biden echoed that complaint.

"Not one time did I hear the phrase middle class pass their lips," he said.

Democrats noted the repeated attempts to ridicule Obama's work as a community organizer among unemployed steelworkers in Chicago as a way of questioning his experience.

"He worked as a community organizer. What?" former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani told the convention crowd, prompting laughter.

"I guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer except that you have actual responsibilities," Palin added later in the night. The line drew cheers and derisive laughter, but not from Obama.

"Why would that kind of work be ridiculous?" he asked Thursday. "Who are they fighting for? … They don't get it because they haven't spent much time working on behalf of those folks."

How many of the Republican delegates, 93 percent of whom are white, are familiar with community organizers is debatable. More than half have a net worth in excess of $500,000 and may have no need for someone like Julio Medina of New York.

"We're talking about being in touch with the homeless, being in touch with the under-educated, being in touch with the unemployed," said Medina. "A community organizer is that presence for hope when hope doesn't exist."

Obama said he was not surprised by the Republican rhetoric.

"I've been called worse on the basketball court," he said. "It's not that big of a deal."

Though Obama caught only a small part of Palin's speech last night, his aides watched and were impressed. She is a skilled politician, they said, and deft at going on the attack.

[ladysa]

When will this bashing of Obama end, it is so unfair.
I am black and I support Obama for his committment to work to make a better America for all. I was deeply roubled when I watched the rep. convention, I saw US senators, adult empty suits engaging in a common a cat fight with pettiness against Obama.Palin needs to go back to Alaska. I found her disgusting at the beginning and she further continues to be an embarrasment, what sane woman would want to be identified as a pit bull in lipstick and a barracuda?
She does not speak for me, I would never vote for her.
It''s comical to see her in all her shrillness thinking that she is saying some interesting and John Mcain standing looking on like a doting great grand father at his great great grandaughter. I think the Rep. convention should have named the bash Obama campaign. Are you goffers concerned about the state of our country or hurling insults. As for the snide remaks about community worker, it only goes to show how out of touch the senators and palin are.Community organizers are a blessing to those in need. Of course you wouldn''t know about that.

[bchelmowski]

This is the year when CBS has dropped any pretense of fairness and openly became cheerleaders for Barack Hussein Obama. I had planned to sit out this election because I have serious disagreements with Senator McCain, but you have changed my mind

Your vile, sexist attacks on Governor Palin, your gutter politics, your eagerness to report the most outrageous unsubstantiated rumors to defame her has convinced me to vote and to do anything I can to insure that the candidate of the CBS slimemeisters is defeated

Bill Chelmowski
Stanley, NM

[mrsgrayless]

H-e-l-l-o... is Anybody Home?
What we learned this week is that 93% of the Republican delegates were white and 51% earn over $500,000 a year. Reflecting the largest income gap in history, these are the folks who delivered a massive deficit, a War of convenience, an economy in shambles, enormous profits for oil companies, Enron deceptions, Katrina embarrassments, 9/11... it goes on and on for God''s sake.

No one in their right mind would re-up with any organization that incompetent. What Planet Are YOU ON?

[kazlab]

Yeah and all of this started to happen when congress became overrun with Democrats!

Posted by Spaspy

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So 8 Years of Bush & his Cronies has absolutely nothing to do with this? What the hell is wrong with you drones?? How can you be so dense to continue chanting your party line?
Even the Captain of the Titanic had to eventually come to the realization his ship was sinking.

[spaspy]

"Unemployment Rate Hits 5-Year High
Gov''''t Plans To Seize Fannie, Freddie
Wall Street plunged more than 340 points
Delinquencies, Foreclosures Rise To More Than 9 Percent Of US Home Loans In Second Quarter
530,000 Workers Were Subject To Mass Layoffs In The Last Year,
people continuing to receive unemployment benefits also rose slightly to 3.44 million for the week
2 days of news



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Posted by kazlab at 10:37 PM : Sep 05, 2008"


Yeah and all of this started to happen when congress became overrun with Democrats!

[barrylies]

New ad in Michigan:

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[bks253]

Palin is pathetic. The GOP banks on the belief that the American voting public is clueless. What a shrill, spineless woman. Only the religious right would pay homage to somebody so filled with hate. What a bunch of hypocrites!

[barrylies]

BARRY SOETORO, INDONESIAN CITIZEN HAS BEEN SERVED!!
(From citizenwells)

SERVICE OF LAWSUIT CHALLENGING SENATOR OBAMA%u2019S RIGHT TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS HAS BEEN COMPLETED
( Lafayette Hill , Pennsylvania %u2013 09/04/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama%u2019s eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Senator Barack Obama were served today, September 4, 2008, with the legal documents pertaining to Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083. The DNC was served at 12:00 p.m. and Senator Obama was served at 1:00 p.m. The U.S. Attorney%u2019s Office accepted service on behalf of the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) on or about August 22, 2008.

# # #

* * For copies of all Court Pleadings, go to

obamacrimes.com

I heard that Popsicle Stick Palin is being "coached"...I thought she bragged about her being ready on day 1 for VP...if one is ready, what is the need to be "coached."
Why is she being hidden from the press...afraid to answer questions on items in her past?....hmmm....
Can''t use that song "Barracuda" now from the group Heart? I guess one of the Wilson sisters is insulted by the type of woman she is...

[amnstymccain]

I agree with JackDems - could not have said it better myself. Palin is awesome and speaks the truth - she had the audience snorting with laughter at the "chosen one!" I actually kind of felt bad for Obama for a few minutes... Palin is not awesome, she is a fat pig that should never have been given a spot on the republican ticket, just like Amnesty Mccain shouldn''t have been allowed on the ticket either! So you think she tells the truth.... Did she say that her and amnesty mccain are going to give amnesty to over 20 million illegal immigrants??? I doubt they will admit that, even though that is their real plan! After Amnesty Mccain gives amnesty to over 20 million illegal immigrants, then the democrats will have to clean up the broken economy that would create! I hate amnesty Mccain. Vote Obama, make amnesty Mccain move to Mexico and be with his people!

[kazlab]

very important video...not for weak of heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s&feature=related

[thetexaspapa]

For those who were so interested on Obama Pastor, well you`ve got a VP nominee who sat in church during an anti-JEWS Tirade,her Pastor is an anti-Jews Pastor.
What will you say now??

Uh, prove it??

[kazlab]

Unemployment Rate Hits 5-Year High
Gov''t Plans To Seize Fannie, Freddie
Wall Street plunged more than 340 points
Delinquencies, Foreclosures Rise To More Than 9 Percent Of US Home Loans In Second Quarter
530,000 Workers Were Subject To Mass Layoffs In The Last Year,
people continuing to receive unemployment benefits also rose slightly to 3.44 million for the week
2 days of news

[thetexaspapa]

mrs101:
You are obviously a complete dunce

Wrong, mrsscott3, you''ve got a biased view and really should remove the blinders so you can see. If you have to stoop to calling names, then maybe you should grow up a bit and try acting like an adult.

mrs101
Thank you. I now feel like I''m in good company. If they think you are one of the ''dumb'' Americans, you''ve got them scared. (G)

[mrsscott3]

Oops! Unintentinally used quotes instead of apostrophes. I love the SHIFT button.

[mrsscott3]

To JackDems and the idiot that agrees with: You were bullies when you were younger weren''t you? Only a callous jerk would find any enjoyment or significance in Palin''s speech. It wasn''t even a speech. More like a comedy routine. If that speech had been given to real Americans instead of the snarling, bigotted automatons at the convention, she''d have gotten booed off the stage.

[kazlab]

I sold the Jet on Ebay...False
I did not cheat on my husband...possible
The child is not mine...possible
I did not use my power/privledge to fire an Officer of the Law...Indictments.
No Pork barrel = Earmarks.

[mrsscott3]

mrs101:

You are obviously a complete dunce if you were swayed by a scripted speech totally devoid of any substance given in a sarcastic, derogatory tone. You''re one of the "dumb" Americans targetted by the GOP.

[kazlab]

I agree with JackDems - could not have said it better myself. Palin is awesome and speaks the truth - she had the audience snorting with laughter at the "chosen one!" I actually kind of felt bad for Obama for a few minutes. It would be hard to be made such a fool of by a beautiful, articulate, honest woman!!


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So far a lot of what she has said is being reputed. Do you even know her other than what the Naz...uh, I mean...Republican Propanganda Ministers are throwing in your sheep face?
Go to sleep...go to sleep...go to sleep, it will be alright....Ve vill take care of everytink.

[thetexaspapa]

State of Denial. But I''''m glad that "you say" that you are employed. Good, but what have you done for the poor and needy...probably nothing. What good deeds have you done for the many?

Gosh it''s so good to have you challenge me when you don''t even know me. Now I know what it feels like to be a VP nominee for the GOP. I''m not in a state of denial, I''ve lived through much harder times than these. I know what it''s like to lose everything, including a place to live; not once but three different times. I''ve done nothing for the ''poor and needy'' that would live up to your standards, but let''s see; this year alone I''ve bought and given away 2 cars to people that really needed them, I''ve supported in toto my stepdaughter and her kids for the past 3 years, I''ve adopted a few ''grandkids'' who needed guidance in how to NOT become wards of the state. For more years than I care to remember, I''ve repaired computers for free for anyone who needed one to learn on so that they could get a better paying job. Is that enough? Better be, because I really don''t feel that I owe you to justify myself or my accomplishments.