Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: A Change We Can Believe In
Spartanburg, SC | November 03, 2007
I'm running for President because I believe we find ourselves in a moment of great challenge and great promise - a moment that comes along once in a generation.
It's a moment of challenge because America is less safe and less respected than at any time in recent history. We are more dependent on oil from dictators and closer to the day when climate change becomes a climate catastrophe.
In the midst of great prosperity, families all across this country feel further from the American Dream. You know this from your own lives. Most Americans are working harder for less and paying more for health care and college than ever before. It's harder to save. Harder to retire. And the policies of the last seven years have added to that unfairness.
George Bush said whatever the politics of the moment required in order to get elected in 2000. And those seven years of broken promises have left the American people with less trust in their leaders and less faith in their government than they have in years.
We were promised compassion and conservatism but we got Katrina and wiretaps.
We were promised a uniter, but we got a divider who couldn't even lead the half of the country who voted for him.
We were promised a kinder, gentler Washington but got a town that's more bitter, secretive, and corrupt than ever before. And the only mission ever accomplished was using fear and falsehoods to take us to a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged.
This catastrophic failure of leadership has led us to a moment where it's not just Democrats who are listening to what we have to say, but Independents and Republicans who have never been more disillusioned with what the state of our leadership in Washington has done to this country.
That's why this is also a moment of great promise. It's a chance to turn the page by offering the American people a fundamentally different choice in 2008 - not just in the policies we offer, but in the kind of leadership we offer.em>
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Friday, October 2, 2009
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Promises, President Obama promised jobs and lots of them. 8% unemployment by June 2009 IF we would pass the $780 Billion Stimulas bill. It passed it's now October 2009 and we are @ 9.8 unemployment headed to 11%.
Cut taxes to small business companies will hire (Ronald Regan did it)
Give all business a tax credit for hiring (Geo. Bush did it)
Stop all work on the Health Care disaster (Bill Clinton did it)
Stop all work on the Cap & Tax bill (Obama will you do it?)
All these things will re-energize business in America today and GET PEOPLE JOBS
Oh yes STOP all illegal immigration (finish the damn fence) and kick out those without VISA's and Americans will return to work.
All these methods have worked and will work IF you TRY President Obama problem is you are over your head and you have stopped trying.
The American people will stop trying next November when a different batch of Congress persons & Senators are elected.
Mike in Milford
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