"I don’t believe in coming in second. The American people can’t afford for us to come in second."

[bigtree]

Sept. 6, 2008


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


MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Democrat Barack Obama turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help.

Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, hosted more than 100 people for dinner on their mansion lawn by the Navesink River in Middletown, N.J. The price was $30,800 a person, to be divided between the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

"When I look at Barack, I see an old man," Bon Jovi said in introducing his guest. Obama is 47, Bon Jovi is 46.

“You don’t have to be 72 to have experience,” he said, referring to the age of Mr. McCain. “It’s the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. This 21st century man has an aura of hope wrapped around him.”

Obama spoke for about eight minutes before greeting guests individually. He vowed to fight Republican attacks on his character and background more fiercely than John Kerry did in his losing campaign four years ago.

"We're not going to be bullied, we're not going to be smeared, we're not going to be lied about," Obama said.

read: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/5986415.html







Obama said that the assignment of his Republican opponents is “to see if they can snuff out that spirit in this campaign and to knock me down more than one peg,” he said. “The reason that events like this are so important, we’ve got to have the resources and the energy and the determination to say ‘No’ to that. To say 'enough.' We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about. We’re not going to resort to the same tactics, but we are going to confront them.”

Obama suggested that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., possibly doesn’t even approve of the campaign he is waging.

“I think some of you saw this week the strategy of the other side,” Obama said. “A strategy that, I’d be willing to venture, that if you asked John McCain, ‘Is this the kind of campaign he intended,' he might have said, 'No.'”

Obama told the attendees . . . that he hoped they were “up for a fight.”

“I hope you guys are game,” he said, “because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife –- I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second. I don’t believe in coming in second. The American people can’t afford for us to come in second. We’ve got to win this thing and we’re going to win it with your help.”


read: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/i-dont-believe.html



Willow Martin, 7, of Little Silver, waits Friday for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama to drive by



Photos by Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger -- Ozier Muhammad/the New York Times --(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

[carlyhippy]

1. If you're not first, you're last-Ricky Bobby

He's better than the mud-slinging Jerry Springer-esque styles of the other party.

[LibDemAlways]

2. I'm glad Obama understands what's at stake. That's

a sentiment I never heard articulated in as blunt a fashion by Kerry or Gore during their campaigns. I hope he continues to hammer home the point.

[OneBlueSky]

3. ah, but do you believe in the Second Coming? . . .

Sarah wants to know . . . :tinfoilhat:

[bigtree]

11. pretty funny

the rapture woman

[Obamarulz11]

4. Tupac quotes reminds me of Barack

Obama is hungry!! Attacking little by little. Dont worry McCain will throw an interception, or fumble.


"Hell, no. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me." -Tupac Shakur

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Bam! Listen up DUers:

"We’re not going to resort to the same tactics, but we are going to confront them.”

That's all most of us are saying with regard to Palin. It must be confronted...and it's up to us to do it, IMHO. The Palin thing is ours to do; Obama can easily dispatch McCain. Shit McCain can easily dispatch McCain.

The unknowns about Palin -- and the truth about those who adore her, those who know exactly what she stands for -- must become KNOWN to the general populace so they aren't fooled and taken in by the shiny object.

[terrya]

6. I'm really heartened to hear him say that.

That's what I've sensed. He REALLY wants to win. His determination. This is real, "fire in the belly" time, to unearth a hoary cliche.

And I'll do what I can to help him.

[BloodOfPatriots]

7. Finally, A fighter!

[tammywammy]

8. Recommended

Another great post BigTree. :)

[Wednesdays]

9. Interesting wording

"Democrat Barack Obama turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help."

Makes it sound like Obama is in trouble.

[stillcool]

10. maybe to some...

but seems to me like Obama is turning to all of us for help.

[Bob Dobbs]

12. We're all in trouble if we don't work like hell for two months.

The final nail in the coffin of America will come with the election of mcbush and fascist girl.

We cannot let that happen.

We need you, me AND bonjovi on this.

[bigtree]

13. You got that right

:kick:

[bigtree]

14. .

:kick:

[bleever]

15. I've never seen a better run campaign, or a better campaigner.

K&R.

[Curtland1015]

16. I agree. He's amazing.

I think I know now what people felt like when they watched people like JFK, Dr. King and the like.

[bleever]

17. Welcome to DU, Curtland1015!

[onethatcares]

18. we are not second place citizens,

and we have a candidate that realizes that. It's up to us to see him elected.

I come here to DU because we are right, not always right, but right enough to know that we have to turn the bus around and make this world for all of us and our children. Stay strong

Peace