Obama: The closing argument
Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008 9:17 AM by Carrie Dann
"Obama is giving what his campaign calls the 'closing argument' of his presidential bid in Ohio, where he already lost once this year, to fellow Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. 'In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope,' Obama said in prepared comments released in advance early Monday by his campaign. The longest presidential contest in history is down to just eight days, with Obama and Republican McCain dueling for the electoral riches of Ohio and Pennsylvania."
More excerpts of Obama’s speech today: “In one week, you can turn the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In one week, you can choose policies that invest in our middle-class, create new jobs, and grow this economy from the bottom-up so that everyone has a chance to succeed; from the CEO to the secretary and the janitor; from the factory owner to the men and women who work on its floor.”
“In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope. In one week, at this defining moment in history, you can give this country the change we need.”
Obama, who will delay the start of Wednesday's possible World Series Game Six for a 30-minute infomercial, might be making his most aggressive pitch through sports media, which he has used to audition as an all-American everyman before one of the few demographic groups that continue to elude him. "Obama is targeting so much sports programming because it trends very much to younger white males, which has been a reliable Republican bloc but is also very much an independent voting bloc, so they're going after McCain's strength," said Evan Tracey of the Campaign Media Analysis Group
"Obama's record-breaking $150 million fund-raising performance in September has prompted questions about whether presidential candidates should be permitted to collect huge sums of money through faceless credit card transactions over the Internet," the Washington Post reports.
David Axelrod is on the verge of joining the very thin ranks of successful presidential campaign architects.
Yet another ex-GOP officeholder is endorsing Obama. This one: ex-SD GOP Sen. Larry Pressler.
Bill Ayers walking the streets of NYC.
