Watch this awesome clip from Obama's speech in Raleigh, NC yesterday, in which he ties Bush and McCain together and destroys johnny on the economy all at the same time.
There are some great quotes in this,
The centerpiece of John McCain's economic plan amounts to a full-throated endorsement of George W. Bush's policies.
It is brilliant how Obama begins this section of the speech. He acknowledges McCain's so called "maverick" image by acknowledging his stances on earmarks and the environment and then he just brushes it aside. The effect is to say he may be a "maverick" on those things but on the things that really matter, like the economy, he is McBush.
This is all great but IMO the most effective part of the speech is the line. "We've been there once. We're not going back." It evokes images of a McCain presidency moving in lockstep with Bush policies.
Move forward with me below the fold.
We have had a President who fought an irresponsible preemptive war in the middle east. A war we could not afford to fight, in a country that should not have been our main focus. We fought this war before exercising all diplomatic options. And even when we made the decision to fight it, our troops went in without proper equipment, and when they came back received substandard medical care.
We've been there once. We're not going back.
We have had a President who created tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans while the middle and lower class was struggling to make ends meet. A president who called him self a fiscal conservative, all the while spending and cutting taxes enough to turn a trillion dollar surplus into over a four trillion dollar deficit.
We've been there once. We're not going back.
We have had a President who in response to the crisis that his global climate change called for more and more drilling. This drilling while compounding the problems of climate change would take place in some of our most pristine areas; The Alaska wilderness and on our coastline.
We've been there once. We're not going back.
We've had a president who spoke about "reforming" social security through privatization, putting into jeopardy the benefits of millions of Americans. A president who had no plan for reforming our broken health care system. A president who scoffed at the idea of universal coverage, calling it "socialism."
We've been there once. We're not going back.
We've have had a president who turned a blind eye to corporations. Allowing them to murder civilians in Iraq, profit off the backs of our soldiers, and steal our citizens retirement money. A president who condoned torture. A president who violated our constitution and the Geneva convention, lowering our moral standing in the eyes of the war.
We've been there once. We're not going back
We have had a Republican President.
We've been there once. We're not going back.
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