"We believe in a government that unleashes the creativity and initiative of Americans. Government that doesn't make your choices for you, but works to make sure you have more choices to make for yourself.
I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them. I will open new markets to our goods and services. My opponent will close them. I will cut government spending. He will increase it.
My tax cuts will create jobs. His tax increases will eliminate them. My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance. His plan will force small businesses to cut jobs, reduce wages, and force families into a government run health care system where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor.
Keeping taxes low helps small businesses grow and create new jobs. Cutting the second highest business tax rate in the world will help American companies compete and keep jobs from moving overseas. Doubling the child tax exemption from $3500 to $7000 will improve the lives of millions of American families. Reducing government spending and getting rid of failed programs will let you keep more of your own money to save, spend and invest as you see fit. Opening new markets and preparing workers to compete in the world economy is essential to our future prosperity.
I know some of you have been left behind in the changing economy and it often seems your government hasn't even noticed. Government assistance for unemployed workers was designed for the economy of the 1950s. That's going to change on my watch. My opponent promises to bring back old jobs by wishing away the global economy. We're going to help workers who've lost a job that won't come back, find a new one that won't go away.
We will prepare them for the jobs of today. We will use our community colleges to help train people for new opportunities in their communities. For workers in industries that have been hard hit, we'll help make up part of the difference in wages between their old job and a temporary, lower paid one while they receive retraining that will help them find secure new employment at a decent wage.
Education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers, and help bad teachers find another line of work.
When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parents deserve a choice in the education of their children. And I intend to give it to them. Some may choose a better public school. Some may choose a private one. Many will choose a charter school. But they will have that choice and their children will have that opportunity.
Senator Obama wants our schools to answer to unions and entrenched bureaucracies. I want schools to answer to parents and students. And when I'm President, they will.
My fellow Americans, when I'm President, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much. We will attack the problem on every front. We will produce more energy at home. We will drill new wells offshore, and we'll drill them now. We will build more nuclear power plants. We will develop clean coal technology. We will increase the use of wind, tide, solar and natural gas. We will encourage the development and use of flex fuel, hybrid and electric automobiles.
Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power. But Americans know better than that. We must use all resources and develop all technologies necessary to rescue our economy from the damage caused by rising oil prices and to restore the health of our planet. It's an ambitious plan, but Americans are ambitious by nature, and we have faced greater challenges. It's time for us to show the world again how Americans lead.
This great national cause will create millions of new jobs, many in industries that will be the engine of our future prosperity; jobs that will be there when your children enter the workforce.
What about the RINOs who wanted to compromise on drilling strategy with the dems--are they gone, or what?
Because of his position on oil drilling and taxes.
I agree. He should listen to the speech. Being good on the economy isn’t planing big give aways, the American people respond to someone who will be a good steward of the economy.
Most people know in their hearts that bigger government is not a solution it is a big part of the problem. Freedom is about choices, McCain understands this and so do the American people. A choice isn’t to give up your right to say no to a government program that once you opt in that you can never opt out.
Which polls did he score high on the economy on? I didn’t see that broken out?
I have to say as I have said on another thread. The analysis of speechmaking has gotten so bad within the media.
For both dems and republicans I hear journalists say, “well they said nothing about X”
in point of fact, they typically said 3-5 things about X
Do the journalists read the advance copies or listen to the speeches?
The analyses are way off target. I expect the partisan spinners to do this but the idea that journalists do it is infuriating. Even though Fox is better than most, they also did not do a good job of analyzing the speeches.
Numbers, enthusiasm, rose across the board—led by Sarah Palin.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Probably all true, but don’t underestimate the “Palin Factor” - a person who walks in the same shoes as most middle-class Americans and who they can relate to. Having a “real person” as VP will have a lot more appeal to the average voter than the number of letters after his/her name.
I often like Krauthammer, but on this, his elitism is showing.
Your link to this NEWS story isn’t working for me.
I thought Charles missed the mark there as well. Thanks for posting!
Perhaps some simple common sense got through to some people.
There is NO WAY a logical person can think Democrats/Socialists/Marxists can be good for the economy.
Of course, the simpletons think “economy” means “how much stuff am I gonna git?”
I like your home page, I made part of that my tag line as soon as I heard it.
“Maybe he should try to actually listen to the speech?”
Good point. And your quote demonstrated it. Education is the biggest problem this country faces long range and his comments on energy were right on the money.
Instead of “change”, Obama will just give us more of the same when it comes to energy and education.
Maybe people figured out that taking water out of only one side of the bucket is a fool’s errand?
That punishing businesses ultimately hurts the workers.
That drilling will create many new jobs.
Add to that the info that we pay the second highest corporate taxes in the industrialized world.
People are beginning to get it! And they get Obama too. He is words, just words.