Obama strategist David Axelrod on McCain: "Saying the word does not make you the agent of change"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Themes Set, Both Campaigns Begin Dash to Election



Senator Barack Obama was in Duryea, Pa., on Friday for a town-hall-style meeting at the Schott glass company, a maker of precision optics for the military.

Mr. Obama’s advisers scoffed at the pageantry and Mr. McCain’s embrace of the “change” theme.

“Simply saying the word does not make you the agent of change,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s top political strategist.

They also said Mr. McCain had failed to address voters’ fundamental concerns about the economy. Mr. Obama himself drew sharp distinctions between himself and his Republican rivals as he seized upon Friday’s news that the nation lost more than 80,000 jobs last month.

Addressing an audience of workers at a glass manufacturing plant in Duryea, Pa., near Scranton, Mr. Obama said, “If you watched the Republican National Convention over the last three days, you wouldn’t know that we have the highest unemployment rate in five years, because they didn’t say a thing about what is going on with the middle class.”



Senator John McCain and his wife, Cindy, at a rally on Friday in Sterling Heights, Mich.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Ahh... McLame's "Empty Words".

:rofl:

:applause:

[BeyondGeography]

2. I see Cindy has her "don't touch me" cast on again

WHat a cast of characters they're offering up this year.

[Honeycombe8]

3. ZING! That's so true! Obama doesn't have to even SAY change; he IS change! nt