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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.
Hussein Obama wants us all to live like his relatives in their huts back in Kenya. Meanwhile, like John Edwards, he and Mean Michelle bask in all the affluence and privileges of America’s elite black class.
What a hypocrite!
When Obama gets a 1500 sq ft house and his wife does the cooking, I will consider turning my thermostat up.
But in the modern fascist state that Obama represents, temperance and gluttony have been replaced by the secularist “common good.” While that may be promulgated as a new virtue by Statists, experience has taught us that the “common good” is not for the good of the people, but to aid the political and economic survival of a totalitarian state that cannot compete with individualistic and especially competitive behaviors.
Sounds like Jimmy carter
Yeah. IF we let the market work.
We have pinheads like Obama on the hill placing restrictions on the market
Boy, I sure hope he keeps right on talking.
They'll do what liberals always do--ignore the facts and blame their troubles on republicans.
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.
When liberals say “we” in the context of sacrificing some right or consumable that Americans have always enjoyed, the correct translation is “You peons”.
And BTW Hillary, if eight percent is “excess profit”, what do we call the millions you got for your “book”, and that Bubba gets for his “speeches” and his “library”?
mark
Mandated by the government? You want the government to dictate how much people can eat and how much they should weigh?
…L0L!
>>>This is America isnt it?
Not for much longer. Only difference between Obama & McCain is how fast we go down the crapper.
For some reason that’s a scary picture. All I can say is “cult of personality.”
Bad apples spoil the whole bunch.
Nobody wants to admit the following things about our schools:
1. The demographics of a school almost always give a prediction, usually accurate to about 75%, of how well it will perform relative to other area schools.
2. Regardless of demographics, poor performing schools are more due to a lack of concern and value in education among the kids, than lack of “funding” for the school or lack of good teachers. A ghetto thug that flunks in DC will flunk at Winston Churchill High in Potomac, Maryland, and probably bring other kids down with him. Aside from true learning disabilities, schools that perform poorly usually do so because the kids don’t give a sh*t and that comes from their parents either ignoring them, (or lack of a FATHER) or because the parents themselves are uneducated and/or don’t instill in the kids the value of education. On the flip side, educated parents, or, parents who value education, tend to have kids that do well in school. Again, there are always exceptions.
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