Obama: 'I will win'

[OrangeEmpire]

Ben Smith's Blog: Obama: 'I will win' - Politico.com

confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most of it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.

“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described Pennsylvanians as "bitter" and stoked controversy three months ago, but did so much more adroitly.

"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so," he told the crowd. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. This is not working."

“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple," he said.

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept," he said.

Things could get ugly in the coming weeks, he warned.



“They’ve got a whole machinery that they’re cranking out,” Obama continued. “They’ve got a book about me, that just kind of sprung full bore out of this guy’s head.”



“John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me. They know they can’t win on the issues. So what they’ll do is they’ll try to scare people. He’s risky. He’s risky. We’re not sure.”



It’s an old playbook, he continued, but Obama said, it’s not going to work this time. “Not only do you have a candidate who doesn’t take any guff. Not only do you have a candidate who will hit back swiftly and forcefully and truthfully.But you’ve also got American people who are rising up all over the country and saying, enough is enough.”

Thoughts?

I am really going to have find something about McCain to vote for!

Does his military service warrant my vote?

Obama is a complete dirt bag!

[utvolpj]

very telling that he said "I" instead of "we" (as in the American people)

[allvol123]

Obama is very devisive. A lot of "they" in his material. But I hear he is an expert on constitutional matters, so that should make up for his faults in other areas.

[OrangeEmpire]

Originally Posted by utvolpj

very telling that he said "I" instead of "we" (as in the American people)

No doubt he is a self centered ego maniac.

I was actually quite fond of him during the debate but as I feared it was merely a show to his audience.

[OrangeEmpire]

Originally Posted by allvol123

Obama is very devisive. A lot of "they" in his material. But I hear he is an expert on constitutional matters, so that should make up for his faults in other areas.

Expert on what?????

[allvol123]

The Constitution.

[MG1968]

eight years of economic disaster?

only a socialist could view the last 8 years a disaster. It's only been since Pelosi/Reid took control of Congress that the economy really started to slide, but we're still a long, long way from the economic malaise brought about by Carter's economics plan.

[OrangeEmpire]

Right, expert on what part?????????????????

[allvol123]

All of it. At least that is what the Obama supporters tell me.

[MG1968]

Obama's an expert on the part of the Constitution that deals with the creation of the 57th state.

[OrangeEmpire]

I would love to ask him if he thinks the bill of rights limit the citizen or the government.

[MG1968]

I'd like to ask him where in the Constitution is the "right" to universal healthcare, the "right" to affordable housing, and the "right" to a college education.

I'm sick of all these neo-socialists finding rights in the Constitution that don't exist.

[JZVOL]

I would like to ask him to leave the country.

[OrangeEmpire]

Originally Posted by MG1968

I'd like to ask him where in the Constitution is the "right" to universal healthcare, the "right" to affordable housing, and the "right" to a college education.

I'm sick of all these neo-socialists finding rights in the Constitution that don't exist.

That one is easy!

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

I will leave it up to you how they have bastardized that to mean all you have mentioned.

[myrobbins7]

Originally Posted by JZVOL

I would like to ask him to leave the country.

And take that witch that thinks Obama is a gift to the USA with him..