Obama grabbed a remote control to switch from MSNBC which had the camera on former President Clinton sitting in the Denver audience to CSPAN which was carrying Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's speech live.
I knew that man was smart! Hopefully even MORE people will start tuning in to C-SPAN!
That guy just TOTALLY woke me up and fired me up!!! Hopefully video will be out soon. I knew he was going to be fun as soon as I saw him walk up to the podium, he just looks like a fun guy. After listening to him speak and repeatedly SLAM McCain, I almost wanted to move to Montana! He even got Bill Clinton up, smiling, and engaged! The crowd was into it, I was into it, the people liveblogging was into it!
This guy rocks, and I'd be happy to vote for him after 8 years of President Obama!
This is a cool article in Time about Michelle, how she grew up, and her and Barack's relationship. As it turns out (although it's not that surprising) Barack had a huge role to play in getting Michelle in public service. The article starts with the story of how at the end of the summer in 1989, Barack turned down a job at a prestigious law firm, but also notified a senior partner that he was taking Michelle with him:
I think this is my favorite video they've released fact checking McCain's lying commercials. They spend a lot less time talking policy, and more time ribbing on McCain. I love it!
DIGG the ad Boy, this is the gaffe that keeps on giving.
You remember how McCain was saying that all of his questioning of Obama's motives in ending the Iraq war wasn't questioning his patriotism, but instead his JUDGMENT? Well Obama saw through that BS. Sounds to me like Obama's gloves have also come off on Iraq. First Obama called him the liar that he is.
On Thursday, Obama took umbrage with this interpretation of events. "I expect [John McCain] to show me the same courtesy that I showed him," said the presumptive Democratic nominee. "Then yesterday he tried to say he wasn't challenging my patriotism, he was challenging my judgment. What does it say when you say someone would rather lose a war than lose an election? Of course he was challenging my patriotism."
Lately there has been a lot of dissatisfaction with the Obama campaign around here. While I recognize the concerns and share some of them, a lot of them have me questioning why people on this site largely supported him in the primary. If you wanted someone who would attack relentlessly and often unfairly, then Hillary was the person you should have been supporting. Obama's entire candidacy, maybe even his entire political career, has been based on changing the way the government works. From what I can gather, he's never been prone to confrontations.
I am not saying that we need to have blind faith in him, but I'm thinking that since the guy went from a virtual unknown entity four years ago to the presumptive nominee for President by the Democratic Party means the man knows what he's doing.
Since I couldn't think of anything to write today, and there just so happens to be a town hall starting soon, AND I've always wanted to do a live blog, here ya go! You can view the town hall at www.cnn.com/live and on the Obama website.
[Update: 6:42 PM ET] It hasn't started yet, the CNN feed just has the crowd.
[Update: 6:47 PM ET] Obama just came out to a cheering crowd, the sound is doing something funny on my cnn feed, is it just me? Anyway, the crowd looks pumped :o)
[Update: 6:49 PM ET] Man, the sound is REALLY jacked up on cnn.com, or the crowd is REALLY loud. He's being introduced now by Gloria Craven, a regular citizen. She's going to tell us "how it is"
So yesterday in Reno, Nevada in the midst of the all the Faith Forum controversy, Obama was still on the trail. I caught part of his town hall and remember noting to myself that he was going after McCain more forcefully, well the AP picked up on that also:
So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to "John McCain's president, George W. Bush," and chided his Republican rival's campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.
You wanted him to be more forceful, indeed yesterday there were lots of people complaining about his lack of "being tough" and "going on offense" well, he's been on offense for a while now, and since he got to spend a week with his family, I fully expect him to be on fire all week.
Last night I made a valiant effort to watch the forum when John McCain was on the stage, I was doing well until he mentioned going to visit churches after Hurricane Katrina. That specific bit of pandering was particularly offensive to me because I had just done a diary on McCain's Katrina record, and it's not good.
Well, the Obama campaign has come out with another video much like the other video which refutes the McCain campaign's latest distortion on his tax policy.
The only format I can find right now is the Quicktime format, I'll keep looking for another version. If you don't have Quicktime, you can download it here.
The video has a woman talking about her home getting foreclosed, along with McCain's insensitive comments about home foreclosure, while showing McCain's multiple multi-million homes, and they mention the shoes and Cindy's comment about the small private jet being the only way to get around Arizona and she just up and bought the plane because she loved it so much.
So, the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is coming up, and all of the bad memories about that time are coming back to me. I'm not from New Orleans, but I had lots of friends that were. John McCain's theme for this election is "country first." Does that not also mean DOMESTIC issues? Issues like Hurricane Katrina and the fact that it STILL hasn't been fixed (yet we spend BILLIONS a month on a war in Iraq). Was McCain putting "Country first" when he was eating birthday cake with George Bush.
So I was checking YouTube to watch the new commercial and give it another hit, when I saw that the campaign posted this video today (I'm subscribed, you should be too, click here):
So yesterday McCain spoke with disabled troops in Las Vegas, and as usual he spent most of his time attacking Obama. However, reading this article shows that people are sick of the baseless attacks already. Indeed, what struck me the most was this from the article:
Duke Hendershot, a double amputee retired Marine who served in Vietnam, supported McCain’s run for president in 2000 but is undecided this year.
"John just isn’t the same as he used to be. He’s not his own man," said Hendershot, who lives in San Antonio, Texas. "A lot of that has to do with how he’s wanted this job so bad for so long that he’s tied himself to President Bush."
He said McCain’s embrace of Bush, whom Hendershot called a "draft-dodging coward," is even more perplexing because of the rivalry between the two candidates during the 2000 campaign.
Hendershot also criticized McCain for taking swipes at Obama in his speech. "He should have been talking about veterans issues, not his opponent," he said.
