Senator Obama has our full support for President of the USA..
Posted on 04/21/2007 7:35:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - A woman's tearful plea to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to end the Iraq war momentarily caught him off guard Friday at a New Hampshire town hall meeting.
The Illinois senator vowed to end the unpopular conflict if elected, a position that later earned him thunderous applause during a 5,800-person rally in Boston.
Obama fielded questions about health care, gun control and energy during a midday appearance before some 200 people at a Nashua senior center. The residents politely applauded, and then Jean Serino of Hudson told the candidate her nephew was heading to Iraq to serve.
"I can't breathe," she said, her voice breaking with sobs. "I want to know, when am I going to be able to breathe? Are you going to get us the hell out of there? Promise us you will get us out of there. That's the most important thing."
The crowd's applause as she finished gave Obama time to compose an answer.
"I can only imagine how you feel, as a father and as a parent," he said. "I don't go to a single town-hall meeting where I don't meet a mother or father who either is seeing a loved one go over there or has already lost someone, or has a loved one who has come back injured.
"So I make a solemn pledge to you, as president we will be out of Iraq," Obama said to loud applause.
Democratic presidential contenders have repeatedly faced questions from voters about the four-year-old war during stops in New Hampshire. New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has dealt with pointed questions about why she won't apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to use military force to oust Saddam Hussein.
A recent poll showed that ending the war is the top priority for New Hampshire voters when considering presidential candidates.
Obama reiterated his plan to remove troops by March 31, 2008, similar to a plan passed by Congress that President Bush has vowed to veto.
Democrats don't have enough votes to override the veto. Without mentioning them by name, Obama criticized New Hampshire Sens. Judd Gregg and John Sununu, both Republicans who voted against the troop withdrawal deadline.
"There are two New Hampshire senators who have not made a commitment," he said, "and the power is in their hands."
Obama also reiterated his criticism of the system for background checks for gun purchases after the massacre at Virginia Tech.
"We're still selling handguns to crazy people," Obama said. "We're supposed to have a system that these people are screened out. What's clear is the background check system in this case failed entirely."
Seung-Hui Cho, the gunman who shot 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday before killing himself, had a history of mental health problems but still was able to buy two guns.
At a campaign rally at Boston University on Friday night, Obama challenged a sold-out crowd to abandon doubt and get involved in the campaign.
"Too much is at stake not to overcome that cynicism," he told a rowdy crowd of mostly college students who donated $23 to attend the New England campaign launch. "If all of you decide this is your campaign and not my campaign, this cannot be stopped."
Was she a foreign agent?
Jean Sarino’s nephew wasn’t drafterd...she really should have had a talk with the nephew last month instead of crying to Obama now.
Senator Obama has our full support for President of the USA..
What a bunch of ooey-gooey hyper-emotional feel-good liberal nonsense.
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Praise GOD that...
the one thing the LOVE Itself needs more of in this world,
...for GOD is LOVE,
...is more LOVE.
And that ONLY comes when people are...
...FREE..!!!
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Liberalism is a mental disorder. What is it with these people? Hillary can't breathe because her husband had an affair...that is a shocker. This woman cannot breathe because her country is killing and opressing people all over the world. Simply pathetic.
Dear ms Serino:
Unlike Senator Obama, I can solve your problem immediately ma'am. It's called hyerventivation - you liberals get this a lot. Here, breathe into this bag.
You might want to increase your thorazine dosage too. I guarantee you'll feel better right away.
Our society is seriously in trouble.
It is incapable of understanding that freedom is not free.
That evil exists in the world and some of those are out to kill us.
They will kill us in Iraq or in Indiana, given the opportunity.
We have now not just individuals, but entire segnments of our country who fit John Stuart Mills definition...
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~~ John Stuart Mill ~~
Funny they always think the politicians can solve every problem.
No kidding.
I view liberalism as the most serious danger to the integrity of our country.
The only thing missing there was her sobbing “We have to end it for the sake of the children!”
I hope her brave nephew doesn’t hear about her disgusting performance. In her feeble mind, it’s not even about her nephew - it’s about her: I, I, I, me, me, me. Typical liberal moonbat.
I think this one has the potential to become a classic, right up there with "seared into my memory". God Almight.
How about a tearful plea to not sell out our troops and cut and run?
Ugh. I find this to be simply distressing. No wonder people like Osama Bin Laden and others like him think they can take us to the cleaners. They hear pathetic people like this woman Obama Barack who is RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, and people like Harry Reid. They think THOSE people speak for all Americans.
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