Now this is unity!! Barack Obama today:
"By the way, I'm going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we're going to be figuring all this out."
TPM
More after the fold.
Here's why it's important:
I keep getting asked the difference between these two candidates and their policies and on health care, I prefer Senator Clinton‘s to Senator Obama‘s.
The difference—more important to me is the difference between Senator McCain‘s proposed plan, I said plan, with the ideas of either of the Democratic candidates, and you‘re talking about narrower differences between the Democrats and then this gulf that I was describing earlier, a solar system of difference between what Senator McCain is suggesting for health care and what these candidates are suggesting.
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Wednesday, April 9
And Elizabeth can take on McCain.
Between Obama's move to bring Elizabeth Edwards into his campaign to help on health care and his recent emphasis on populism, I could not be more happy with our nominee:
Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth but work and the workers who work hard every day
Obama: "building an economy that rewards not just wealth but work." (w/ Video of SEIU Speech)
Obama is reaching out to unify the Party. And he will bring us universal health care!!
Update I: From Barack Obama's Prepared Remarks:
When it comes to relieving these economic anxieties that working families feel, nothing matches the burden they face from crushing health care costs. John McCain‘s approach to health care mirrors that of George Bush. He’s promising four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and the wealthy – a plan that will actually make it easier – easier – than it already is for insurance companies to deny coverage to the elderly or the sick or those with pre-existing conditions. It may lead millions to lose the coverage they already have and millions more to have to pay even more than they do right now.
We can’t afford that. Not when 47 million Americans are already uninsured, a number that is growing by the day. Not when families and businesses across the country are being crushed by the growing burden of health care costs and when half of all personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills.
When I am President, we’ll take a different approach. We will give every American the chance to get the same kind of health care that Members of Congress give themselves. We’ll bring down premiums by $2500 for the typical family, and we’ll prevent insurance companies from discriminating against those who need care most. And we won’t just lower costs for families, we’ll lower costs for the entire country by making our health care system more efficient through better technology and more emphasis on prevention. That’s the choice in this election, and that’s the change I’ll bring as President.
Just as we need to reform our health care system, we also have to reform a tax code that rewards wealth over work – a 10,000-page monstrosity that high-priced lobbyists have rigged with page after page of special interest loopholes and tax shelters; a tax code that continues George Bush’s billion-dollar giveaways to big corporations and wealthy CEOs; a tax code that has plunged this country deeper and deeper into debt.
Ben Smith, Politico
Update II: Also on hand for the speech were John and Elizabeth Edwards.
Great picture of John and Elizabeth applauding Senator Obama's speech here
Update III: More details:
Thirty minutes into his speech, Obama interrupted his prepared remarks and pointed to the wife of his former Democratic rival to declare his intention of her role.
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"I don't think there's two people in the country who have done more to elevate the debate about politics, who have focused on critical issues like health care and who have made us all think about our obligations to create one America," Obama said of the couple, remarking that over the 16 month primary process he has gotten to know them well.
The Obama campaign says that formal talks are not yet in the works between the Illinois senator and Mrs. Edwards, but confirm that this is something they will do in the future.
"Her presence here speaks volumes," spokeswoman Jen Psaki says, "Senator Obama hopes she will play an active part in his efforts."
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