Obama slams McCain in official Democratic Radio Address

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Barack Obama is contrasting Iraq’s budget surplus and America’s budget deficit as one of the reasons a change is needed in Washington. The Senator from Illinois makes the comments in today’s Democratic Radio Address. It's the first time he’s delivered the weekly address since becoming his party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

“We learned this week that the Iraqi government now has a $79 billion budget surplus thanks to their windfall oil profits. And while this Iraqi money sits in American banks, American taxpayers continue to spend $10 billion a month to defend and rebuild Iraq. That’s right. America faces a huge budget deficit. Iraq has a surplus,” says Obama.

“Now, Senator McCain promises to continue President Bush’s open-ended commitment to the war in Iraq, while refusing to pressure Iraqis to take responsibility for their own country. Let me be clear: we are well over five years into a war in a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks."

"Our brave men and women in uniform have completed every mission they’ve been given. Our country has spent nearly a trillion dollars in Iraq, even as our schools are under funded, our roads and bridges are crumbling, and the cost of everything from groceries to a gallon of gas is soaring,” adds Obama in the remarks, which were released prior to delivery.

Obama says in the address that “the American people are worse off than they were eight years ago” and that the choice the presidential election between him and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain could not be clearer.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/09/obama-slams-mccain-in-official-democratic-radio-address/

[onehandle]

1. McBush is goin' down! nt

[TerribleLarryDingle]

6. GOD

I fuckin' hope so

[kestrel91316]

2. But, but......JOHN EDWARDS HAD AN AFFAIR!!!!11!!!1!

[truthisfreedom]

3. I DARE mcdrain to ever bring that up. Ever.

He knows that would be the beginning of the very end.

[kestrel91316]

8. He won't, but his Repuke buddies have got the minions busy

harping on it endlessly here on DU, that's for sure.

[UrbScotty]

11. Thank you for focusing on what's most important!!!

[Raine1967]

4. It's about time I saw a headline that read that way.

Instead of the usual spun dribble from the media.

GOBAMA!

[ohio2007]

5. pre recorded radio address

or is it a sign of ignoring current events ?

[AlinPA]

7. ???

[POAS]

17. I'll add a Say What????

[dkf]

9. Dang, that is some hard hitting shit!

He is pretty damned smart. Even when he isn't campaigning he finds a way to get his message through.

[ryanmuegge]

12. He's fucking brilliant. Anybody who is remotely honest with themselves

and hears him speak for more than 10 seconds can see that. He's the only candidate in the two major parties that is actually running for president on objective, legitimate merits (intellect, educational achievements, judgment, past accomplishments). McCain is not a real presidential candidate. Anybody who takes some guy who didn't a goddamn thing in the private sector seriously isn't being objective. So fucking what. McCain was tortured, finished near the bottom in his class, crashed a bunch of fucking fighter jets, and only got where he is in government and in the Navy because of the achievements of his grandfather and father. For a party that praises the private sector so much, McCain has spent his whole fucking life on the government welfare rolls in some way or another, and he has proven himself incompetent every step of the way. He has no merits upon which to be a goddamn candidate for president.

This race shouldn't even be fucking close if people looked at shit objectively.

[jwirr]

13. The beginning of his fireside chats with the American people. nt

[jeff30997]

10. “Now, Senator McCain promises to continue President Bush’s ...

Yadayadayad! Go to hell McChimp!

[BRLIB]

14. Iraq has less than one tenth of our population, so that's

like in our terms an $800 billion surplus, even more than when Clinton had at the end of his second term!

[fascisthunter]

15. corporate republican biased media better help McCain on this one...

[and-justice-for-all]

16. Nothing like a verbal kick in the McNuts!! nt