Las Vegas Sun
Looking poised and relatively fresh given the grueling schedule of a presidential campaign, the senator from Illinois spoke in his customary manner cool, measured, deliberate about urban issues, his appeal to Hispanic voters......“If Latino voters examine my track record, I think they’ll feel enormous confidence that I will be strong advocate on behalf of equal opportunity and fairness.”If the recent Culinary endorsement is to mean anything, Obama will have to appeal to Hispanics, who make up 40 percent of the union’s membership.He also discussed his agenda for healthier cities, which includes early childhood education, job creation and drug treatment, all aimed at breaking a cycle of poor people with few opportunities going into the drug trade, which leads to prison, making them almost permanently unemployable.
Looking poised and relatively fresh given the grueling schedule of a presidential campaign, the senator from Illinois spoke in his customary manner cool, measured, deliberate about urban issues, his appeal to Hispanic voters...
...“If Latino voters examine my track record, I think they’ll feel enormous confidence that I will be strong advocate on behalf of equal opportunity and fairness.”
If the recent Culinary endorsement is to mean anything, Obama will have to appeal to Hispanics, who make up 40 percent of the union’s membership.
He also discussed his agenda for healthier cities, which includes early childhood education, job creation and drug treatment, all aimed at breaking a cycle of poor people with few opportunities going into the drug trade, which leads to prison, making them almost permanently unemployable.
Washington Post
...observe the huge, multihued crowds that turned out to see him in New Jersey and South Carolina after [New Hampshire]. Watch their eyes brighten when they talk about him, listen to their voices build excitedly...These people are believers in ways that transcend ordinary politics....[Tinia Bland, a 43-year-old registered Republican] arrived five hours early for Obama's rally in Jersey City, her 8-year-old son Elijah in tow."I want him to see there is a man who looks like him, and that he is capable of making phenomenal decisions, and that this is an opportunity that he can aspire to," she says. "I really see him as a uniter. There doesn't have to be a white America and a black America anymore, and I like that."...His stump speech is a rousing oration, tapping into American history."Generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of people: Yes, we can," he tells Charleston.They were the words, he says, that inspired "a president who chose the moon as our new frontier and a King who took us to the mountaintop."The ovation is thunderous......for Arlene Estevez, a 48-year-old single parent who lost her Charleston home to a foreclosure and has relatives serving in Iraq, there is no turning back. She has listened to all the Democratic contenders who say they represent her, "and the only one I see who's going to make a change for me is Obama.""He is letting us know that we don't need to stand for these things that are happening now, and he is giving us a chance to say, 'No, this is not what we want.' We are running this government," she says. "We want it back, and we're going to take it back.'"
...observe the huge, multihued crowds that turned out to see him in New Jersey and South Carolina after [New Hampshire]. Watch their eyes brighten when they talk about him, listen to their voices build excitedly...
These people are believers in ways that transcend ordinary politics.
...[Tinia Bland, a 43-year-old registered Republican] arrived five hours early for Obama's rally in Jersey City, her 8-year-old son Elijah in tow.
"I want him to see there is a man who looks like him, and that he is capable of making phenomenal decisions, and that this is an opportunity that he can aspire to," she says. "I really see him as a uniter. There doesn't have to be a white America and a black America anymore, and I like that."
...His stump speech is a rousing oration, tapping into American history.
"Generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of people: Yes, we can," he tells Charleston.
They were the words, he says, that inspired "a president who chose the moon as our new frontier and a King who took us to the mountaintop."
The ovation is thunderous...
...for Arlene Estevez, a 48-year-old single parent who lost her Charleston home to a foreclosure and has relatives serving in Iraq, there is no turning back. She has listened to all the Democratic contenders who say they represent her, "and the only one I see who's going to make a change for me is Obama."
"He is letting us know that we don't need to stand for these things that are happening now, and he is giving us a chance to say, 'No, this is not what we want.' We are running this government," she says. "We want it back, and we're going to take it back.'"
New York Times
So why did [Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri] support Mr. Obama over Mrs. Clinton? During the conference call today, she pointed out more than once that it was a difficult decision to make. Turns out, it was partly because of her daughter.“At the fierce urging of my 18-year-old daughter, I could not sit in the bleachers any longer,” Ms. McCaskill explained. “I felt like I needed to get down on the field, fighting for what I think is so important for our country.”...“A lot of people talk about his ability to give a great speech....” Ms. McCaskill said. “To me, that is the whip cream in the cherry. To me, this is a man who has incredible intellectual heft, he’s a very smart guy with a wide soul who is not afraid to figure out a new and different way to tackle problems.”
So why did [Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri] support Mr. Obama over Mrs. Clinton? During the conference call today, she pointed out more than once that it was a difficult decision to make. Turns out, it was partly because of her daughter.
“At the fierce urging of my 18-year-old daughter, I could not sit in the bleachers any longer,” Ms. McCaskill explained. “I felt like I needed to get down on the field, fighting for what I think is so important for our country.”
...“A lot of people talk about his ability to give a great speech....” Ms. McCaskill said. “To me, that is the whip cream in the cherry. To me, this is a man who has incredible intellectual heft, he’s a very smart guy with a wide soul who is not afraid to figure out a new and different way to tackle problems.”
Reuters
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Amid growing worries about a worsening of the U.S. economy, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed a $75 billion economic stimulus plan on Sunday that includes worker tax credits, a one-time pension supplement and help to homeowners facing foreclosure.The plan would include an immediate $250 tax credit for workers, which could double if the economy worsens, a one-time $250 supplement to Social Security payments, a $10 billion fund to help homeowners facing foreclosure and a $10 billion fund to assist states facing budget shortfalls amid lower tax revenues."We need that middle-class tax cut now more than ever -- not five months from now or five weeks from now, but now," Obama said in a statement. "I'm announcing a plan to jump-start the economy by putting money in the pockets of those who need it most and will spend it quickly."
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Amid growing worries about a worsening of the U.S. economy, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed a $75 billion economic stimulus plan on Sunday that includes worker tax credits, a one-time pension supplement and help to homeowners facing foreclosure.
The plan would include an immediate $250 tax credit for workers, which could double if the economy worsens, a one-time $250 supplement to Social Security payments, a $10 billion fund to help homeowners facing foreclosure and a $10 billion fund to assist states facing budget shortfalls amid lower tax revenues.
"We need that middle-class tax cut now more than ever -- not five months from now or five weeks from now, but now," Obama said in a statement. "I'm announcing a plan to jump-start the economy by putting money in the pockets of those who need it most and will spend it quickly."
New York Post
Barack Obama yesterday proposed a massive eco nomic-stimulus package yesterday that would immediately give the vast majority of American workers a check for $250. "Obama believes we cannot wait until he becomes president to give workers the tax relief they need," the campaign said of the tax credit. "This will help maintain consumer spending, strengthen the economy and ease the squeeze so many Americans are currently experiencing." Aside from the immediate $250 tax credit for workers, which could double if the economy worsens, his plan includes a one-time $250 supplement to Social Security payments; a $10 billion fund to help homeowners facing foreclosure; and a $10 billion fund to assist states facing budget shortfalls. ...The Obama campaign said the larger plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy in the form of tax cuts and direct spending. It also reserves an additional $45 billion of stimulus that can be injected into the economy if the economy continues to deteriorate.
Barack Obama yesterday proposed a massive eco nomic-stimulus package yesterday that would immediately give the vast majority of American workers a check for $250.
"Obama believes we cannot wait until he becomes president to give workers the tax relief they need," the campaign said of the tax credit. "This will help maintain consumer spending, strengthen the economy and ease the squeeze so many Americans are currently experiencing."
Aside from the immediate $250 tax credit for workers, which could double if the economy worsens, his plan includes a one-time $250 supplement to Social Security payments; a $10 billion fund to help homeowners facing foreclosure; and a $10 billion fund to assist states facing budget shortfalls.
...The Obama campaign said the larger plan will inject $75 billion of stimulus into the economy in the form of tax cuts and direct spending. It also reserves an additional $45 billion of stimulus that can be injected into the economy if the economy continues to deteriorate.
New York Daily News
"Michelle Obama has my vote"...Michelle Obama contradicts most clichéd images because she is so unpretentiously down home, classy and so inarguably American and so much of a woman and a mother as well as so mentally acute. She is able to communicate in that way you would expect of a lawyer experienced at a high-pressure firm. I do not see how the country can resist them or the realization of family values that they so palpably embody. What a shift for ALL women, but obviously for those women and girls at the bottom, who can look at these two people and see flesh and blood proof of the fact that dreaming is not a waste of time, that working hard to prepare for the arenas and the big time is not fruitless self-torture, that assuming that you can finally be seen as a human being is not some cliché overgrown with sticky cotton candy irrelevance. If you go to YouTube and see Michelle Obama in action, you may come to the same conclusion that I have...
"Michelle Obama has my vote"
...Michelle Obama contradicts most clichéd images because she is so unpretentiously down home, classy and so inarguably American and so much of a woman and a mother as well as so mentally acute. She is able to communicate in that way you would expect of a lawyer experienced at a high-pressure firm.
I do not see how the country can resist them or the realization of family values that they so palpably embody.
What a shift for ALL women, but obviously for those women and girls at the bottom, who can look at these two people and see flesh and blood proof of the fact that dreaming is not a waste of time, that working hard to prepare for the arenas and the big time is not fruitless self-torture, that assuming that you can finally be seen as a human being is not some cliché overgrown with sticky cotton candy irrelevance.
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