The Page: Obama calls John McCain out today in Colorado on the economy.

[flpoljunkie]

Hot damn!

Portion of Remarks of Senator Barack Obama—as prepared for delivery

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Pueblo, Colorado

Now, a few hours later, John McCain’s campaign sent him back out to clean up his remarks. And he explained that what he really meant to say was that American workers are strong.

Now come on, Senator McCain. We know you meant what you said the first time because you’ve said it before. And your chief economic advisor – the man who wrote your economic plan – said that we’re in a “mental recession;” that this is all in our heads; that we’re a nation of whiners.

Don’t get me wrong – when Senator McCain says that American workers are the backbone of our economy, and that they aren’t getting a fair shake from Washington, he’ll get no argument from me. I’ve been making that case for nineteen months.

I think it’s good that Senator McCain is celebrating the American worker today. But it would have been nice if he stood up for them over the last twenty-six years. It would’ve been nice if he didn’t vote against the minimum wage nineteen times; or if he didn’t vote to privatize Social Security and hand it over to Wall Street. It would’ve been nice if he had opposed the tax cuts for corporations that have shipped American jobs overseas, or the hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate tax giveaways that have helped plunge our country into crippling debt. It would be nice if he had a plan to lower the health care costs of American workers – or get them any health care at all; and if he had championed a single plan to make college more affordable.

Senator McCain – you can’t run away from your words or your record. When it comes to this economy, you’ve stood firmly with George Bush and a failed economic theory, and what you’re offering the American people is more of the same.

http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-obamas-remarks-in-pueblo-colorado/

[darius15]

1. That's what we need.

[Amonester]

2. GOBAMA!! :^D

Also: EDUCATE the American workers about WHO Phil Gramm and his fellow crooked lobyists R (and DID).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3490731

And: While at it, please ask McCain why he STILL praises him, eh?

It's a win-win!

K & R

[Cha]

3. mccain's doing anything he can think of

to run from his record of enabling bush..from hiding behind palin's skirt to co-opting Obama's lines(but not his ideas) and sending cindy out there to say The View picked their lyin' bones clean.

[BlueIdaho]

4. The truth is a beautiful thing... nt.

[gblady]

5. he was really....

passionate in the rally...
Loved to be able to watch it on his site.