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Obama charges Republicans ignore economic issues
Sep 3, 2008, 19:57 GMT
Washington - Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, Wednesday lashed out at Republicans for ignoring the dragging economy and its impact on ordinary people's lives in the opening session of their presidential nominating session.
Obama, referring to speeches delivered Tuesday evening in St Paul, Minnesota, charged that none of the speakers mentioned the economic hardships and the struggles people are having in sending their children to college or hanging on to pensions.
The speakers included US President George W Bush, who spoke from the White House via remote satellite connection, and independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman.
One of Senator John McCain's rivals for the nomination, former senator Fred Thompson, did mention economic issues, saying that the Democrats make it sound like the country is 'in the middle of a great depression' while living in the 'most generous and prosperous nation in the history of the world.'
Obama, who was campaigning in Ohio, a key battleground state in the November 4 elections, said in broadcast remarks that McCain was fighting a campaign based on personality, not issues.
'What are we going to do about keeping jobs in Ohio ... and retirees losing their pensions ... and social security for the next generation?' Obama asked.
He charged that McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee who will be officially nominated in St Paul later Wednesday evening, has boasted about how the economy 'has made great progress' during Bush's eight years in office.
'I measure progress and the Democrats measure progress differently,' McCain said. 'I don't measure progress by how some fortune 500 CEO is doing ... I measure it by whether you can find a job that pays the bills.'
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Lieberman, well known as Liarman has talked rubbish in the Rubbish Convention. Being a Zionist and hard core Jew he has proved that people like him are selfish and have no loyalty to any one. Gore and the Democrats were wrong in making him their Vice Presidential candidate and allowed him to take full advantages of his position siphoning billions of dollars to Israel to construct illegal settlemnts and continue the bloody apartheid occupation. John Liarman will be liability on any party. Better, he remains independent without any Chairmanship of any committee. John McCain did the right thing not selecting him for vice presdential post and made him worth less than Sarah Palin.
Lieberman is floundering around like an old man without a country.
..better take a look:
Household income just hit a historic high.
Bush grew his economy at a higher rate than his predecessor, who is frequently lauded for it.
unemployment is lower than his predecessor's number
Tax revenue is higher, far higher than his predecessor's number
Since 2002, after the tax reductions, we have not had a negative GDP quarter, including this quarters projections.
The problem with you fairies is that you can never face the criticism on the left, that the left visits on the right. Were it not for a mortgage mess that dems greased with an unregulated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we'd be doing 2.2% GDP right now. Lieberman got it right last night: there was a time when the dems got together and really helped business in this nation with NAFTA and trade legislation.
Better go take another look. By the way, Bush told you, for 7 years, that we needed domestic drilling and domestic oil resources. The dems laughed in his face. Now, who's laughing?
Tonight, the little baracuda from Alaska just made it front and center in the campaign.
Your statistics don't add up to what is happening out there with companies cutting back, losing money right and left, going bankrupt, and it isn't just the housing mess that is causing all of this, but, like I've said before, you can't see what's out there because of the elephant in front of your face. Go stand on the street corner and tell people know how well they have it and see how long you'd be standing upright!
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BensonSep 3rd, 2008 - 21:52:01
The economy is getting worse by the minute and somebody better have a plan to get it back on track. McCain, with his Bush politics, isn't the answer!
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