Breaking: Obama Launches Final Attack on McCain

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Source: The Washington Independent

On this last day before the election, Sen. Barack Obama is urging voters to relive some humiliating history. Speaking in Jacksonville, Fla., Obama will remind voters of the infamous declaration that Sen. John McCain made in the very same location about six weeks ago, according to a preview of the attack released by Obama’s campaign this morning.

“John McCain just doesn’t get it,” read Obama’s prepared remarks. “Remember what he said when he was here on Sept. 15? That day, more than 5,000 jobs were lost and <...> former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said we were in a ‘once in a century’ crisis. And yet, despite our economic crisis, John McCain actually came here, to Veterans’ Memorial Arena, and repeated something he’s said at least 16 times on this campaign. He said – and I quote – ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong.’”

Obama is planning to blast that claim, which his senior strategists believe marked a turning point in the campaign. “That’s not only fundamentally wrong, it also sums up his out-of-touch, on-your-own economic philosophy,” his preview text reads. “It’s a philosophy that says we should give a $700,000 tax cut to the average Fortune 500 CEO and $300 billion to the same Wall Street banks that got us into this mess. It’s a philosophy that says we shouldn’t give a penny of relief to more than 100 million middle-class Americans. And it’s a philosophy that will end when I am president of the United States of America!”

Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, was recently asked by Time what the “defining moment” was on the campaign, “the moment when you thought Obama could win?” Axelrod’s mind went to Jacksonville.



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