Obama: "I Give a Good Speech"
OSHKOSH, WIS. -- Barack Obama won the Service Employees International Union endorsement today, but he said union endorsements do not mean that he can stop working.
"I don't think that unions are monolithic or all powerful," Obama told reporters at a press conference in Milwaukee, "But I think they are extraordinary in the Democratic party and they represent working people."
Obama was asked about the effect of union endorsements prior to the SEIU announcement. He argued that unions gravitate to him because of his ability to build coalitions.
"I've been a 100% supporter of union organizing and getting more people engaged in the union movement," Obama said. "Our economic agenda is one that is targeting people who are squarely in the middle class or are trying to get into the middle class."
Later at a rally in Oshkosh, Obama said Hillary Clinton's argument that he gives good speeches without providing solutions is false.
"I understand as we get further and further along in this process that some of the arguments get sillier and sillier," Obama told a crowd of thousands at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
"Don't be fooled by this talk about speeches versus solutions. It's true I give a good speech. What can I do? Nothing wrong with that."