or if it is, it's not a very damaging one. And yes, I know quite a lot about the Bataan Death March. My mother's friend who survived it is in New Mexico right now.
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-for-thursday-obama-new-york-city-fundraiserPool Report for Thursday Obama New York City FundraiserAt a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser Thursday afternoon at the Credit Suisse building in Manhattan, Sen. Barack Obama echoed the themes he’d discussed in a speech about the economy earlier in the day.
“We have an economy that is out of balance,” Obama told the audience of about 300 supporters. “It’s one in which most of the people in this room have benefited enormously over the last decade - and I include myself in that group…but it is an economy that has left millions and millions of Americans behind.”
Restoring the economy, he said, “means putting in place a regulatory framework that’s up to the task of dealing with a global financial system and a new set of financial instruments…but more than anything, what’s important is restoring a sense that this is not a ‘you’re on your own’ society, that we’re a ‘we’re in this together’ society.”
The Illinois senator began his remarks with a barely-veiled shot at his primary opponent, Sen. Hillary Clinton.
“I decided to run not because of some long-held ambitions or because I thought it was somehow owed to me - and certainly I wasn’t presumptuous enough to think it was my turn,” Obama said.
He dismissed concerns that the bruising Democratic primary would hurt the party’s chance of taking back the White House in November.
The Democratic primary “has gotten people engaged in politics who were never engaged before or who had forgotten what it’s like to be passionate about politics,” he said.
“I am absolutely confident that by the time this thing is over, the Democratic party will be completely unified.”
“For those of you who are just weary of the primary, and feeling kind of ground down or that it’s like a Bataan death march, I just want everybody to know that the future is bright.”