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Obama: "We can't...eat as much as we want"
AFP ^ | 5/18/8

Posted on 05/18/2008 10:30:13 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

From this story:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day.

Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."

Polls show Obama leading in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs, while Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a state with 51 delegates that has a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won a thumping victory Tuesday.

His campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates won through state votes to reach a majority of 1,627, not counting the "superdelegates," party officials who can vote either way at August's Democratic national convention.

Using a baseball analogy, Obama said May 8 that if after Tuesday's primaries "we have a majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and its the ninth inning and we have won."

The official finishing line is 2,025 delegates, including superdelegates.

During a rally in Roseburg, Oregon, Saturday, Obama presented himself as the front-runner almost without question, attacking presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on foreign policy, the environment and healthcare.

Reviving Friday's furious row sparked by President George W. Bush's suggestion that Democrats wanted to appease terrorists, Obama said that not talking to North Korea and Iran had only made those states stronger.

"I want everybody to be absolutely clear about this because George Bush and McCain have suggested that me being willing to sit down with our adversaries is a sign of weakness and sign of appeasement," he said.

He also attacked McCain's plan for a gas tax holiday to cope with rising pump prices, which Clinton supports, as well as his other environmental plans, saying the Republican had consistently opposed fuel efficiency standards.

"For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," he said.

Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

The Illinois senator also argued that the differences between his healthcare plan and that of Clinton "pale in comparison to the differences we have with John McCain," whose proposals would only work "if you're healthy and wealthy."

The escalating rhetoric between Obama and McCain has evoked the kind of campaign battles more common in the immediate run-up to an election -- and emphasized further Obama's pole position in the Democratic race.

But Clinton has vowed to keep fighting until the end of the primary season on June 3, and campaigning in Kentucky Saturday, she defended the plan for the gas tax holiday and accused McCain of having no idea how to fund it.

"Senator McCain said let's give everybody a gas tax holiday but doesn't want to pay for it. I think I've got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits," she said.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
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To: A_perfect_lady
Oh, not quite perfectly even. I'm pretty sure he has no intention of HIS family living in a 750 sq ft public housing unit, eating only what the food rations allow.

Methinks you're right. My guess is that, somehow, the tax laws will be skewed so that he and his Imperial Queen dodge the bullet...

141 posted on 05/18/2008 11:38:30 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

In 1947 Sen. Robert Taft (”Mr. Republican”) was asked about the problem of rising food prices. His proposed solution: “Eat less meat, and eat less extravagantly” was shortened to “Eat less” in Democratic ads and helped to defeat Republicans in the 1948 Truman-Dewey election.


142 posted on 05/18/2008 11:38:56 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Popman
AR Talk on KSKY
143 posted on 05/18/2008 11:39:27 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: NativeNewYorker
and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

Do any normal people give a rat's ass about what other countries think?

144 posted on 05/18/2008 11:41:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (May 17 was my Tenth Anniversary on FR)
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To: spacejunkie01

Agreed.

Except that I would change it to “forcing others to do the same.”

Nothing wrong with trying to talk others into changing their wasteful ways.


145 posted on 05/18/2008 11:41:24 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: rep-always

I hope you’re not grilling that steak outside. It’s no longer politically correct — pollution ya know. Maybe you can afford some carbon offsets.


146 posted on 05/18/2008 11:41:30 AM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Cobra64

Forgot to mention Carter urging Americans to wear an extra sweater at home rather than turning up the heat.

147 posted on 05/18/2008 11:45:07 AM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: NativeNewYorker

I never keep my house at 72 in winter I kept it at 76.

My truck gets 10 mpg around town.

And I don’t give a rats ass what the other countries think about it.


148 posted on 05/18/2008 11:46:44 AM PDT by festus (Tagline removed.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Democrats — the party of limits, except when it comes to government handouts.


149 posted on 05/18/2008 11:49:21 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: McLynnan

I am grilling mine and the 4 others outside. Oh, and don’t worry, Obama, I am green (adding some good old parsley to dress it up). The only carbon in my house is the carbon (coal) I’m grilling with.


150 posted on 05/18/2008 11:54:45 AM PDT by rep-always
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To: NativeNewYorker

He wants an America that looks like....Africa.


151 posted on 05/18/2008 11:55:28 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Leaving the top of my ballot blank.)
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To: Popman
You also want an FN L1A1


152 posted on 05/18/2008 11:55:43 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: clintonh8r

His cuz Odinga just got elected.


153 posted on 05/18/2008 11:56:41 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: aruanan
It’s “depleted”, not “depleated.” I notice that sometimes people on FR spell “speech” as “speach” also.

Ummmm... Sorry. I didn't create this 30 year old cartoon.

However, if you would like to correct it, we'd all certainly appreciate it.

Thanks!

154 posted on 05/18/2008 11:57:29 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: rep-always

The parsley is a good idea. That should fool everybody. I bet you use your fireplace in the winter too ; )


155 posted on 05/18/2008 11:58:34 AM PDT by McLynnan
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To: Sherman Logan
"Nothing wrong with trying to talk others into changing their wasteful ways.

That's what friends are for not the government.
156 posted on 05/18/2008 12:00:10 PM PDT by rwh (What great fortune it is for those in power that the people do not think!)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Because I’m cheap I keep my house at 67 in the winter and 76 in the summer, because I don’t want to get fat I don’t eat everything I want to and because I hate stopping to get gas I drive a Ford Escape Hybrid.

I could care less what other countries think of me. What I do is because it’s what I want to do.


157 posted on 05/18/2008 12:00:12 PM PDT by beandog (Quit serving me mud and telling me it's chocolate pie.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

Surely this man can’t win a general election, can he?


158 posted on 05/18/2008 12:04:13 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: hinckley buzzard
Yes, with a nice balsamic vinaigrette for your starter. Then the risotto, followed by da belle o' da ball, osso bucco.

Are your really a hinkley buzzard? If so, we're neighbors.

159 posted on 05/18/2008 12:06:12 PM PDT by Paul Heinzman (Out of chaos comes comedy.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”

YES WE CAN!!


160 posted on 05/18/2008 12:08:26 PM PDT by austinaero
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