Obama Kicks Off Campaign With a Roar

[babylonsister]

Obama Kicks Off Campaign With a Roar

By Steven T. Dennis Posted at 2:59 p.m. on May 5

Obama Kicks Off Campaign With a Roar


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Obama, introduced with an emotional appeal from First Lady Michelle Obama, drew stark contrasts between himself and Mitt Romney, portraying the presumed Republican nominee as a successful businessman, patriot and family man but one who has the wrong prescriptions for the country. “He sincerely believes that if CEOs and wealthy investors like him make money, the rest of us will prosper as well,” Obama said. “Why else would he propose cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families?”

Obama also tied Romney to Republicans in Congress. “For the past two years, the Republicans who run this Congress have insisted we go right back to the policies that created this mess,” Obama said, only now they want to do it “on steroids” with deeper cuts to important spending programs and deeper tax cuts for the wealthy. “This time they want to give banks and insurance companies even more power to do as they please,” Obama said.

The Republicans “have found a nominee who has promised to rubber stamp this agenda if he gets the chance….We cannot give him that chance! …We’ve been through too much to turn back now!”

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Obama said Romney called it “tragic” to end the war in Iraq and doesn’t want a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan. “After a decade of war that’s cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, the nation we need to build is our own,” Obama said.

On Medicare, Obama said he would “never” allow it to become a voucher program, and defended his health care overhaul. And he explicitly made the election in part a referendum on the rights of women — from health insurance to birth control. “We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose or getting rid of Planned Parenthood or taking away affordable access to birth control,” he said. “I want my daughters to have the same opportunities as your sons…We are not turning back the clock…We are moving forward!”

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[Frustratedlady]

1. I was watching the VA speech and that crowd was SO enthusiastic,

my speakers were vibrating and I had to turn the sound way down. I noticed Cspan was also trying to control the volume. What a crowd!!! That reception to Michelle and Obama's comments had to have troubled The Mitt.

[dkf]

2. If that is all he is offering to the American people we are in trouble.

First of all the record on where we were and where we are isn't so impressive. His argument seems to be that we need to vote for him because he will keep things as is and protect them from Romney. But that won't cut it when people are suffering.

Do people who are in bad shape really get much out of the idea of taxing others? Even the idea of retraining and education isn't much compared to the promise of a vibrant economy where you can get a job just because people need workers.

Oh boy this is not good. Obama is leaving too much room for Romney to be more positive than he is.

[emulatorloo]

3. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002649700

Obama has plenty of positive acheivements and positive policies to run on.

Romney has nothing but a record of destroying companies and laying off workers. He was an unpopular one term governor, with terrible numbers for job creation. He is a pathelogical liar, fully embarrasses the Ryan Plan, and has no empathy for anyone but his fellow one percentage.

As to Romney being "Positive", I am going to remind you that his entire campaign was TOTALLY NEGATIVE. Lie Ads, Attack Ads. Campaign theme: the other guy is way worse than me.

I challenge you to find a single positive in any of Romney's speeches. All you are going to find is platitudes and some of the most egregious lies about Obama and Democrats you have ever heard. He's embraced every piece of wingnut hysteria out there except birthirism.


He does have one positive though - billions and billions of Koch Bros and Rove CrossRoads money to continue his negative campaigning ways. Will make Swiftboats for Truth look like kindergarten.

[dkf]

4. I heard a Republican ad the other day which scared the bejeebers out of me.

It was in the jist of "are you better off than you were 4 years ago" and rattled off the number unemployed, on food stamps, without health insurance, etc. Yes Obama did some things, but they haven't shown up as improving people's conditions over his tenure.

That was the first time I thought to myself we might lose this thing.

It's also the context behind why I say what he is campaigning on may not be enough. He can't make it about defending the status quo. It has to be better than that.

[otohara]

5. When It Becomes Clear That Romney

is Bush on steroids for the wealthy, he will be rejected.
There's too much anger out there regarding inequality.

[dkf]

6. I'd be interested to see if that is the driving factor in people's votes or not.

Here it probably is...but I wouldn't say DU represents the average voter.

Romney on his own is obviously not the attraction. It depends on if he can sell a better future or not.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Would you say you're concerned?