Obama: McCain focused on biography over economy
Democrat Barack Obama called Republican rival John McCain's acceptance speech the final piece of an out-of-touch convention that focused on its nominee's biography instead of the struggles of the middle class.
"If you watched the Republican National Convention over the last three days, you wouldn't know that we have the highest unemployment in five years because they didn't say a thing about what is going on with the middle class," Obama told workers at a specialty glass factory.
"They spent a lot of time talking about John McCain's biography, which we all honor," the Illinois senator said. "They talked about me a lot, in less than respectful terms. What they didn't talk about is you and what you're seeing in your lives and what you're going through, or what your friends or your neighbors are going through."
Obama pointed out that the nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August, according to a government jobs report issued Friday.
"We've now lost 605,000 jobs since the beginning of this year," Obama said. "We've had eight consecutive months of job losses."
Obama seized on the new jobs report as part of his strategy to tie McCain to President Bush's stewardship of the economy and to connect with voters who fear their jobs will disappear. There is no shortage of such voters in Rust Belt Pennsylvania.
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Posted By: trazer @ 09/06/2008 3:17:34 AM
Comment: It is very funny that Obama does not know who employs people in America. Corporations do. Obama wants to take money from the Corporations - which means that the Corporation will have less money to pay their employees or hire new workers. Obama hates Corporations as he does not know that American people work at them> He does not know that our 401K and 403B plans need corporate American to succeed.
Posted By: trazer @ 09/06/2008 3:07:10 AM
Comment: Obama: Where does the money in government come from? The American tax payer. All I hear is how you plan to pay more money to senators and congress to hash over another version of the tax plan. I really like the flat tax plan of McCain, the energy plan McCain has, and the understanding McCain has of the economy. Obama - You are simply like all children. A whiner who does nothing.
Posted By: trazer @ 09/06/2008 3:00:57 AM
Comment: Obama pointed out that the nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August, according to a government jobs report issued Friday, OK - I know Obama is proud of his accomplishment of not writing an important piece of legislation to address the economy. The Congress is run by Democrats who have done absolutely nothing - absolutely nothing -for the American People. Shame on Obama!