Obama in Espanola

September 18, 2008




ESPANOLA, N.M. -- Barack Obama intensified his push for Latino voters today with an outdoor rally in Espanola, a city in northern New Mexico that's 84 percent Hispanic.

He brought with him one of the country's chief Hispanic validators: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who greeted the crowd warmly in a mix of Spanish and English. In Spanish, he assured the crowd -- 9,500 people, says Obama's campaign -- that Obama believed in family and in religion.

Obama, delivering the latest in a series of speeches on the economy, sprinkled in references to specific concerns of Hispanic families, noting that they've been the target of predatory lenders and often don't have health insurance. And then he made a blunt pitch for their support.

Obama also said today that he would meet tomorrow with his economic team to devise a plan, which he called a "Homeowner and Financial Support Act," to provide capital and liquidity to the financial system, and to help struggling families restructure their mortgages. It's unclear yet what exact form the plan will take. And he continued to mock John McCain for embracing economic populism and regulation after a career spent advocating a hands-off approach to corporate America.

"John McCain can't decide whether he's Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich," Obama said. "You cannot just run away from your long-held views or your life-long record."

read: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/obama_continues_1.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed5





"On Monday, he said the economy was fundamentally sound -- and he was fundamentally wrong. On Tuesday, he said the government should stand by and allow one of the nation's largest insurers to collapse, putting the well-being of millions of Americans at risk. But by Wednesday, he changed his mind," Obama said.

"He said he would take on the ol' boy network, but he seemed to forget that he took seven of the biggest lobbyists in Washington from that network and put them in charge of your campaign," Obama said.

"Well, I have a message for Senator McCain: You can't just run away from your long-held views or your life-long record. You can't erase twenty-six years of support for the very policies and people who helped bring on this disaster with one week of rants."

read: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/18/obama_mccain_flits_between_gol.html





“On Tuesday, he said the government should stand aside and allow one of the nation’s largest insurers AIG, to collapse, I mean he said this in three different interviews despite the possibility that it would put millions of Americans at risk,” Obama told a crowd of thousands at a northern New Mexico rally. “But by Wednesday, he changed his mind. And today he accused me of not supporting what the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank did with AIG, despite no evidence whatsoever that that’s what I had said.”

“He has consistently opposed the sorts of common sense regulations that might set out some rules of the road for these financial institutions have lessened the current crisis,” he said. “Except now, with the magnitude of the crisis apparent even to the Bush White House, John McCain wants to reverse himself, he wants to reverse course. Now, all of a sudden, he has become a populist now he’s unleashed an angry tirade against all the insiders and lobbyists who happened to have supported him for twenty-six years

read: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/obama-strikes-back-over-mccain-aig-attacks/






In Espanola, New Mexico, Barack Obama nailed it. In discussing the economy, he attacked McCain's idea of creating a commission to deal with our economic crisis.

He said something like, "We don't need no stinkin' commission!"

"What we need is honest talk and real solutions," Obama said. "Senator McCain's first answer to this economic crisis was - get ready for it - a commission. That's Washington-speak for "we'll get back to you later." Folks, we don't need a commission to spend a few years and a lot of taxpayer money to tell us what's going on in our economy. We don't need a commission to tell us gas prices are high or that you can't pay your bills. We don't need a commission to tell us you're losing your jobs. We don't need a commission to study this crisis, we need a President who will solve it - and that's the kind of President I intend to be."

read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-bergthold/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-c_b_127579.html





Transcript of Barack Obama's Remarks in Espanola, New Mexico: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/obamas_remarks_in_espanola_new.html


photos: (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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seen my wife lately? *shit-eating grin*"

. . . just ragging on McCain's changing faces

but Obama has his own wife..thank you very much.

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lines, but he's rather McCain stole his ideas." It was good stuff.

today 'cause I had to go to work and this is reminescent of how groovin' it was under that New Mexico Sky!

beautiful isn't it?

when he came up to the podium .."sorry, we're were running a little late, I think the bus driver slowed down for the scenery!" :bounce:

:shrug: Bwahahaha...Obama is getting better at it...the humor, I mean.

still, sometimes they just write themselves

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