Obama Fires Back At Palin Attacks

Source: NPR

All Things Considered, September 4, 2008 · Democrat Barack Obama responded Thursday to a series of withering attacks leveled at him by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin the night before.

Speaking from a campaign stop at a factory in York, Pa., Obama denounced the GOP vice presidential nominee's criticisms, saying, "This is what they do."

"They don't have an agenda to run on," Obama said. "They haven't offered a single concrete idea so far in two nights about how they would make the lives of middle-class Americans better. They've spent the entire two nights attacking me or extolling John McCain's biography."

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Obama spent the day talking to workers at the York factory about his economic platform, specifically his job creation plan — in part, as a rebuttal of Republican attacks suggesting he is merely a skilled orator, with little substance behind the rhetoric.



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don't stoop to their level, but give electorate what it wants: SPECIFICS ABOUT PROGRAMS!

Wow! We can only hope that the "Electorate" starts using their brains for more than following the scandals and other "News" that is the overwhelming focus of the M$M.

Fortunately the Dems have plenty of wanna-be pit-bulls, like HRC, ready to go toe to toe with the ReThugs's presidential ticket.

Take the gloves off and give the "Electorate" what they crave, "Bread and Circuses".

Winning the election is the end and any/all means available have to be utilized, starting right now...

Politics has never been pretty, or played fair. It's sorta like a war!

are great when you're talking to intelligent, rational, thinking people. But there's a large segment of the populace that hasn't got a clue. Every now and then the gloves are going to have to come off, and we will have to get in the mud. Gore didn't. Kerry didn't either.

In 2000 at every campaign stop Bush would have a lower income couple stand with him. Bush would promise they would get back $1000 or so in tax cuts. Bush ran as a compassionate conservative which too many voters interpreted as keeping all that Clinton/Gore had given them plus a tax rebate.

In 2004 people were more afraid of terrorists than they were of losing their jobs. Even though it was becoming apparent Bush was a bully, people thought Bush would be able to bully the terrorists and keep them safe.

This morning, NPR news has stories of higher unemployment and a continuing lower stock market. Obama's focus on these problems and his continuing insistence that he can do something about these problems is going to work better now than they would have in 2000 or 2004.

Like they need to get out the pitchforks! But, I sure don't want our people to act like Republicans. Sarah Palin's speech made me sick to my stomach with its vileness, vindictiveness and lack of intelligence (I can't think of the right word. She played to the most ignorant in our nation.) It was a sharp contrast to the message of unity and hope that the Democrats put out in our convention.

I think the way Obama responded to this is great. He said what needed to be said without lowering himself to the level of the Republicans. He makes me feel secure in his level-headedness.

(That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see somebody else come out and knock their blocks off!)

start using the phrase "there they go again...." :rofl: