Barack Obama wants to be president to bring hope back to the American people and restore our nation’s tarnished image in the world, he said Monday.
“I’m a hope monger,” the freshman senator from Illinois confessed. Bumper stickers asking, “Got hope?” were available among the campaign literature.
Obama, 45, spoke to an audience of about 100 outside Kate Hanna’s house on Monday afternoon.
Ann Remus, former superintendent of schools in Bedford, was there as a volunteer and took the wireless microphone around during questions.
In a moment of serendipity, the former superintendent held the mike while special education teacher Mary Anne Albert of Bedford asked about No Child Left Behind. Albert teaches first grade in Derry.
“George Bush left the funding behind,” he said, and doesn’t realize that “not all children are starting in the same place.”
A question about what he would do with the deficit brought another slap at Bush and his so-called “fiscally conservative” administration.
The deficit is “like Iraq, a big hole,” into which the U.S. is pouring $10 to $12 billion a month, which we’re financing by borrowing from China, Obama said.
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