Posted on 10/29/2008 7:35:51 AM PDT by TankerKC
I was listening to the radio while driving from Hampton to Alexandria VA yesterday and ad for Obama came on. The ad had former Governor Warner speaking about how Sen. Obama could get Democrats and Republicans to work together to solve our current economic crisis.
In part of the ad, I *thought* I heard him say that a person shouldn’t have to leave their home town to get a world-class job. That seemed so ridiculous that I had to ask my passenger if he had heard the same thing. He wasn’t really paying attention to the radio and didn’t hear it.
Once I got home, I google searched for the phrase. Here is what I found from Warner’s keynote speech at the dem convention:
“We delivered broadband to the most remote areas of our state; because, if you can send a job to Bangalore, India, you sure as heck can send one to Danville, Virginia and Flint, Michigan and Scranton, Pennsylvania and Peoria, Illinois. In a global economy, you shouldn’t have to leave your home town to find a world-class job."
I’ve linked the CNN transcript (though they got the “shouldn’t” part wrong).
Aside from the fact that government doesn’t create jobs and should never decide where private businesses place their jobs, it is absurd to suggest that no one should ever have to move to get a better job.
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Have you heard this commercial?
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