Sep 06 2008

Obama On McCain as Change Agent: “They must think you’re stupid.”

“And suddenly he’s the change agent? Ha. He says, ‘I’m going to tell those lobbyists that their days of running Washington are over.’ Who is he going to tell? Is he going to tell his campaign chairman, who’s one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington? Is he going to tell his campaign manager, who was one of the biggest corporate lobbyists in Washington?”

“I mean, come on, they must think you’re stupid,” Obama said as the crowd laughed and cheered.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/ele…

And he takes on Palin’s act as reformer.  

“Don’t be fooled,” Obama told the crowd surrounding him in a large barn. “John McCain’s party, with the help of John McCain, has been in charge” for nearly eight years.

“I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she’s change, and that’s great,” Obama

said. “She’s a skillful politician. But, you know, when you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it’s convenient, and then suddenly you’re the champion anti-earmark person, that’s not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can’t just make stuff up.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/ele…

There’s a lot more and it’s really good.

This is good.  Plain talk from Barack Obama.  

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    • TomP on September 6, 2008 at 21:58
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    from Obama.  This is how to combat the right wing pigs like McCain and Palin.

  2. By the way, did you see your blog is on the new Change to win site Tom?

    I think they appreciate your great posts on labor!

  3. because the media, the Democrats and too many clueless voters have been letting them get away with it for far too long.  Hope Obama & Biden can keep deflecting the distractions and lies of the Neo-bushies & keep redirecting the conversation back to McCain’s & Palin’s dismal records.

    • kj on September 7, 2008 at 05:36
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    thanks, Tom!

    • dkmich on September 7, 2008 at 19:58
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    Give us four more years, and we promise not to fuck it up again.  

  6. words mean something

    Words mean no more or less than those who deploy them and those who hear them choose to allow them to mean.

    you can’t just make stuff up.

    What a naive notion; of course you can make stuff up. They do it every day. You can make it up positively, by flat-out manufacturing pieces of reality; or you can make it up negatively, through the much more potent and powerful mechanism of simply not reporting something.

    See my essay “Jessica Lynch: Simulacrum” at http://crustypolemicist.blogsp…

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