The Must-Reid – Friday, October 19
Barack returns to New Hampshire on Monday. He’ll continue to show voters the strength and character we need to bring about real change—by taking on the tough issues and offering straightforward, honest answers about how to tackle them.
During his visit, Barack will file with the Secretary of State to appear on the ballot in the first-in-the-nation primary. The Union Leader yesterday had this to say on the Granite State’s primary tradition.
Michelle Obama will return to New Hampshire on Saturday. Her day includes a stop at our Children’s Fair in Londonderry—accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia—where she will discuss Barack’s commitment as a father and husband, and his track record of fighting for children and families.
Barack continued that fight yesterday, issuing an indictment of Congress’s failure to override President Bush’s veto of SCHIP:
Four million American children were denied basic health coverage today because Washington politicians failed to stand up to this President’s disgraceful veto. At a time when we’re spending billions of dollars on a war that never should’ve been authorized and giving billions in tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans, Washington’s failure shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans.
When I am President, I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term that will cover every American and cut costs more dramatically than any other plan offered by a candidate in this race. And I’ll do it by bringing Republicans and Democrats together, like I did when I expanded health care for an additional 150,000 children and their parents as an Illinois state Senator.”
You can read Barack’s plan to cover every American here.
Wednesday night, Barack appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He drew especially big applause when he said:
What this campaign has always been about is change…We can’t provide healthcare to everybody, we can’t solve global warming, we can’t solve these big problems unless we don’t just change political parties, we also change our politics. Because the special interests and the lobbyists are too dug in.
You can watch video clips from that appearance here, or watch the full video here.
We continue profiling members of our Child Advocacy Task Force today with Ellen Shemitz of Concord. Ellen was recently featured on NH.BarackObama.com:
Policy, not politics, has been the driving force of Ellen Shemitz’s career. Ellen has served as an advocate for children for two decades, building public support for strategic investments in the children of her state and ensuring that the needs of children and families are not ignored. Having recently completed her term as President of the Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire, Ellen is now putting her skills as leader to work for the Obama campaign as a member of our New Hampshire Child Advocacy Task Force.
“Barack Obama is a committed advocate for children. He embraces the essence of the American Dream—that every child should have the chance to reach his or her full potential,” she said…
After nine years, she left her firm to become president of the Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire. She founded and led the New Hampshire Child Advocacy Network, a partnership of over 200 child-serving organizations which has been held up as a model for advocacy across the country…
“Ensuring economic and educational opportunities for children and families today is an investment in the continued global leadership of the United States,” she said.
Rebuilding our social and educational infrastructure so that all children are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow, Ellen believes, requires a president with vision, integrity and the ability to unite disparate voices.
Ellen believes that Barack possesses those traits, citing his early work as a community organizer and his ongoing commitment to civic engagement.
“I have confidence that Barack can engage citizens in a movement grounded in the American Dream, restoring hope and opportunity to our children and our nation.”
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