“I just have one word for you Florida: tomorrow.” – Barack Obama
One day before the presidential election, Barack held a spirited rally in Jacksonville, Florida urging people to vote. He traced the history of the last twenty-one months of the campaign, from the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois onward. This campaign began with the belief that the American people were hungry for new ideas, new leadership, a new philosophy and a new kind of politics.
In his speech today, Barack pointed out that it was here in Jacksonville just six weeks ago that John McCain claimed that, "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" on a day when over 5,000 jobs were lost and more than 7,000 homes were foreclosed on:
Not only was John McCain fundamentally wrong, it sums up the fact that he's out of touch. This out of touch, on your own economic philosophy that says you should give $700,000 tax cuts to the average Fortune 500 CEO. Three hundred billion to the same Wall Street banks that got us into mess. A philosophy that says we shouldn't give a penny of relief to more than a hundred million middle class Americans. It's a philosophy that will end when I am president of the United States.
Sharon BarnesNovember 3, 2008En route to Charlotte, North Carolina
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