It's the economy....and Bush has been stupid. Barack gets it right for us in his speech in Ohio:
Our economy has been struggling for some time now. And as I've traveled across Ohio, I've seen the face of this economy - a mother who told me she can't afford health care for her sick child; a father who's worried he won't be able to send his children to college; and seniors who've seen their pensions disappear because the companies they gave their lives to went bankrupt.
Barack has a plan.
I refuse to accept is that we have to stand idly by while workers watch their jobs get shipped overseas. We need a president who's working as hard for you as you're working for your families. And that's the kind of President I intend to be.
I've proposed a job-creation agenda that starts with making sure trade works for American workers. We can't keep passing unfair trade deals like NAFTA that put special interests over workers' interests.
It's also time to let our unions do what they do best - organize our workers. If a majority of workers want a union, they should get a union. It's that simple. We need to stand up to the business lobby, and pass the Employee Free Choice Act. That's why I've been fighting for it in the Senate, and that's why I'll make it the law of the land when I'm President of the United States.
We can also invest in American jobs by investing in America, and rebuilding our roads and bridges. I've proposed a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years. This will multiply into almost half a trillion dollars of additional infrastructure spending and generate nearly two million new jobs - many of them in the construction industry that's been hard hit by the housing crisis we're facing.
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Clinton might say its all talk, but after listening to what passes for speech from Bush, I'm ready for a leader who can inspire. Clinton just hasn't done that for me. She seems too cozy with the big corporations. She and Bill benefited by Arkansas based Wal-Mart's massive abuses in labor rights and she even served on Wal-Mart's corporate board. While Clinton also supports the Employee Free Choice Act, I think this is just talk, as she never pressured Wal-Mart to relax their anti-union abuses.
Which corporate boards has Barack served on? I don't think he's been on any, but will put the question to the blogosphere.
I like Barack, and think he can inspire the U.S. to enact serious reform. Barack seems more likely to charm the rest of the world, and his willingness to meet with foreign leaders seems to be a much needed apology from the 49% of the U.S. that didn't support Bush's election.