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Archive for August, 2008
August 1, 2008
- In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, Obama steered clear of race as he chided McCain, saying: “So far, all we’ve been hearing about is Paris Hilton. I do have to ask my opponent: ‘Is that the best you can do? Is that what this election is really all about? Is that worthy of the American people?’”
- “Campaigns are tough, but I’m proud of the campaign we have run,” he said. “I’m proud of the issues we have tried to address with the American people. … All I can say is we are proud of that commercial.”
- "The American people deserve better," Obama said in St. Petersburg. "They want a serious conversation about the challenges we face."
- Republicans clearly have targeted energy prices, looking to boost their standing with consumers. President Bush has pushed Congress to permit the offshore drilling and warned that “the American people are rightly frustrated” because Democrats won’t allow a vote on opening up offshore drilling.
August 2, 2008
- "John McCain looks forward to debating Barack Obama as often as possible, but it's disappointing that Sen. Obama has refused his offer to do joint town hall meetings," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said. "We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama's magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he'll reconsider."
- “We understand it might be beneath a worldwide celebrity of Barack Obama’s magnitude to appear at town hall meetings alongside John McCain and directly answer questions from the American people, but we hope he’ll reconsider,” spokesman Brian Rogers said.
August 3, 2008
- "What John McCain has done in the last week has really shown the American people he doesn't want to talk about the economy or foreign policy or healthcare," Plouffe said in a video emailed to Obama supporters.
- “I think the American people deserve more of an accounting on this investigation and some appreciation of how to bring this to closure,” Daschle said. “I don’t know anything about the most recent development, and that’s unfortunate. I think all of us, not only those of us directly affected, but all of us need to know more than we do today.”
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she would not support a vote on a stand-alone bill for allowing increased offshore drilling, calling it an effort to “to mislead the American people as to thinking it’s going to reduce the price at the pump.”
August 4, 2008
- Presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, speaking in Pennsylvania, again advocated more oil drilling off the U.S. coast. “Anybody who says that we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing these existing energy resources either doesn’t have the experience to understand the challenge that we face or isn’t giving the American people some straight talk,” he said.
- "Anybody who says that we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing these existing energy resources either doesn't have the experience to meet the challenges we face or isn't giving the American people straight talk," McCain said in Lafayette Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia.
- "But if he continues to reject any compromise that takes away tax breaks for the same oil companies that have given millions to his campaign … we'd rather not waste the American people's tax dollars,"
- Presumed Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, speaking in Pennsylvania, again advocated more oil drilling off the U.S. coast. “Anybody who says that we can achieve energy independence without using and increasing these existing energy resources either doesn’t have the experience to understand the challenge that we face or isn’t giving the American people some straight talk,” he said.
August 5, 2008
- The Arizona senator recently asserted that Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign,” and belittled him for the “audacity of hopelessness” in his Iraq policies. At one point, McCain said: “Sen. Obama told the American people what he thought you wanted to hear. I told you the truth.”
August 6, 2008
- “He is the most articulate person on this issue of the debtthat we've laid on future generations of Americans,'' McCain, thepresumptive Republican nominee said last night. “We've got tocommunicate more directly to the American people and tell themthe truth.''
- “We need to go out and tell the American people the truth,that we've got to stop handing off these burdens to the nextgeneration of Americans,'' McCain said. “It's not America. It'ssome kind of selfishness that I don't believe Americans know weare practicing.''
- “He is the most articulate person on this issue of the debtthat we've laid on future generations of Americans,'' McCain, thepresumptive Republican nominee, said last night. “We've got tocommunicate more directly to the American people and tell themthe truth.''
- “We need to go out and tell the American people the truth,that we've got to stop handing off these burdens to the nextgeneration of Americans,'' McCain said. “It's not America. It'ssome kind of selfishness that I don't believe Americans know weare practicing.''
- “It looks like Gas Station TV doesn’t want the American people to know about Senator Obama’s plan to offer working families a $1,000 energy rebate that would be funded by a tax on oil company profits” said Mark Bubriski, Obama’s Florida spokesman.
August 7, 2008
- "Oh, the United States will be fine,” she responded. “I think that we are having an important debate about how we keep the country safe. I think we are having an important debate about our responsibilities, our obligations, our interests in the Middle East in the wake of the now increasing evidence of success in Iraq. Those are important judgments for the American people to make.”
- "Those are important judgments for the American people to make."
- "With the upcoming election, there is great opportunity for our leaders to hear what the American people are saying they want from a health care system and to respond with meaningful proposals."
August 8, 2008
- “Instead of this so-called civil rights bill, for example, that says you have to give preferences to minorities, I think the American people are going — once they see the ‘Obamanation’ — they’re going to demand a tweaking of that and say, ‘You have to put the majority into office,’” Barrett said.
August 9, 2008
- In a bit of onedownmanship, Obama says in his address: “The American people are worse off than they were eight years ago.”
- “The American people are worse off than they were eight years ago,” Obama said. “Our government has lost touch.”
- Edwards also said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month and that it would be the American people’s “judgment to make” as to what they think of him now after trusting him.
August 10, 2008
- "And I think Senator Obama's strong case to the American people is that he will have the right judgment about how to balance America's military force with strong diplomacy to protect our interests abroad," Kaine said.
August 11, 2008
- "We have seen that in a moment of crisis, institutions that never anticipated being able to access the discount window — like investment banks — have been given access," Goolsbee said. "Their behavior has not been subject to the kind of oversight required to protect taxpayers from these institutions taking excessive risks with, ultimately, the American people's money."
August 12, 2008
- McCain told more than 2,000 voters in York, Pa., that he spoke Tuesday morning with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to make sure he knows “that the thoughts, prayers and support of the American people are with that great little nation as it struggles today” for independence.
- Addressing voters in Pennsylvania, McCain said he had spoken by telephone earlier with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who he said wanted to thank the American people for their support.
August 13, 2008
- "The American people deserve more access to American oil, and Congress should be in session until we vote," said Rep. Mike Pence (R) of Indiana, speaking to a chamber half-filled with tourists, escorted by GOP lawmakers to break off their tours of the Capitol and take a seat on the floor. He urged the tourists, many of whom seemed astonished to find themselves on the floor of the US House of Representatives, to "call to a Democratic member of Congress from your state" to demand a vote.
August 15, 2008
- Brian Darling, director of Senate Relations at Washington conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, said Corsi's book serves an important role in helping educate the American people about Obama.
August 16, 2008
- "The 65,000 new donors to the Obama campaign demonstrate just how strongly the American people are looking to fundamentally change business as usual in Washington," Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement.
August 18, 2008
- "There can be no safe haven for terrorists who threaten the American people," said, Obama, who once said he would be ready as president to strike against terror suspects in Pakistan if Islamabad did not act on US intelligence.
August 19, 2008
- "That is John McCain's prerogative. He can run that kind of campaign, and frankly, that's how political campaigns have been run in recent years. But I believe the American people are better than that. I believe that this defining moment demands something more of us.
- "If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics."
- “He says it won’t solve our problem and that it’s, quote, not real. He’s wrong and the American people know it,” McCain told reporters.
- "Senator Obama opposes new drilling, he said it won't solve our problem and that it's 'not real' — he is wrong and the American people know it."
- “He says it won’t solve our problem and that it’s, quote, not real. He’s wrong and the American people know it,” McCain told reporters.
August 20, 2008
- “If we think that we can use the same partisan politics where we just challenge our opponent’s patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose,” Obama said Tuesday.
- Bush, in a speech prepared for a veterans convention in Florida, said, “In this war, we must use all assets of national power to keep the pressure on the enemy, keep the terrorists on the run and keep the American people safe from harm.”
- “While we recognize that the steps we have taken are not perfect or even a perfect symbol, they do reflect the fact that Barack Obama shares the urgent desire of the American people to change the way Washington operates,” Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said.
- “I’m going to the Republican convention not to attack the Democratic candidate, but to explain to the American people why I support John McCain,” Lieberman told the Associated Press in Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia. “Sen. McCain asked me to do it, and I strongly support him.”
- “I’m sure that if Senator Obama were president of the United States, if the American people chose him to be their president, that he would act as a president who would get my full and complete support,” McCain said.
August 21, 2008
- "It is an incredible opportunity to tell the American people your vision for the country and what you will do as president — and that can change the dynamics of the race," he said.
August 23, 2008
- “This convention is probably more important than any recent convention in terms of introducing the nominee to the American people,” said Rutgers University political scientist Ross K. Baker. “In the past, the nominees have been fairly well known, or of the type that’s not so rare as Barack Obama.”
- For months, I’ve searched for a leader to finish this journey alongside me, and to join in me in making Washington work for the American people. I searched for a leader who understands the rising costs confronting working people, and who will always put their dreams first. A leader who sees clearly the challenges facing America in a changing world, with our security and standing set back by eight years of a failed foreign policy. A leader who shares my vision of an open government that calls all citizens — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — to a common purpose. Above all, I searched for a leader who is ready to step in and be President.
- Year after year, he has been at the forefront of the fight for judges who respect the fundamental rights and liberties of the American people; college tuition that is affordable for all; equal pay for women and a rising minimum wage for all; and family leave policies that value work and family. Those are the priorities of a man whose work reflects his life and his values.
- Joe won’t just make a good Vice President — he will make a great one. After decades of steady work across the aisle, I know he’ll be able to help me turn the page on the ugly partisanship in Washington, so we can bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda that works for the American people. And instead of secret task energy task forces stacked with Big Oil and a Vice President that twists the facts and shuts the American people out, I know that Joe Biden will give us some real straight talk.
August 25, 2008
- "Tonight will be an opportunity for the American people to be introduced to Senator Obama once again, to learn about his values from people who know him best," he said.
- “But to stay wallowing in all of this is not productive,” she said. “So we can talk about this forever, or we can talk about how we’re going to take our message to the American people, to women all across America, to see the distinctions” between Obama and Republican candidate John McCain.
- "He's enormously humbled by the outpouring of support that the American people and people here today have shown him," she said.
- "You'll see folks in no uncertain terms lay down exactly the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain," said Obama's press secretary, Bill Burton, who said that contrast would be one of the convention's two core messages. The convention's goal, he said, will be to "make sure the American people know who Barack Obama is and where he's going to take this country. And let people know the crystal-clear choice between Obama, who wants to fundamentally change business as usual in Washington, and John McCain, who is just more of the same."
- “But to stay wallowing in all of this is not productive,” she said. “So we can talk about this forever, or we can talk about how we’re going to take our message to the American people, to women all across America, to see the distinctions” between Obama and Republican candidate John McCain.
- “The theory behind the design was to try to bring the American people into the process,” he said.
August 26, 2008
- “I don’t think the American people know them very well,” JFK biographer Michael O’Brien says. “They do a lot of good humanitarian work, but if I was to have to name them, I think I would have a hard time.”
- “If we want the American people to read this, we’ve got to produce it in a length that they’re comfortable with,” said North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, leading the meetings with California Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
- Tonight we need to remember what a presidential election is really about. When the polls have closed, and the ads are finally off the air, it comes down to you — the American people, your lives, and your children’s futures.
- For me, it’s been a privilege to meet you in your homes, your workplaces, and your communities. Your stories reminded me everyday that America’s greatness is bound up in the lives of the American people — your hard work, your devotion to duty, your love for your children, and your determination to keep going, often in the face of enormous obstacles.
- By the time she was done, Sen. Clinton had delivered a strong, convincing affirmation of Obama and, just as importantly, a thumping of McCain. She did her part. Her husband takes the stage Wednesday and then Obama must make his case to the American people that he will be ready on Day One.
August 27, 2008
- "And so I am going to fight as hard as I can over the next 70 days to make clear to the American people that they deserve a president and a White House that is fighting for them, that's not fighting for the special interests, that's not fighting for the banks and the oil companies and the well-connected."
- "And so I am going to fight as hard as I can over the next 70 days to make clear to the American people that they deserve a president and a White House that is fighting for them, that's not fighting for the special interests, that's not fighting for the banks and the oil companies and the well-connected."
- Barack Obama will deliver that change. Barack Obama will reform our tax code. He’ll cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people who draw a paycheck. That’s the change we need.
- These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. I’m ready. Barack Obama is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America’s time.
- More recently, Biden has said Obama has learned much the past year in crisscrossing the country and traveling abroad, talking with American people and foreign figures.
- “This is the time as Americans, together, we get back up,” he said. ” … These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. Barack Obama is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America’s time.”
- “These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election,” Biden said. “The American people are ready. I'm ready. Barack is ready.
- Drawing on his 36 years in Senate and his vast foreign policy experience, he savaged the Republican Party accusing it of failing to protect the American people in what he called "extraordinary times."
August 28, 2008
- “His goal is to talk to the American people about the challenges we face and what we need to do to solve them, and the stakes of continuing to do what we are doing,” Axelrod said. “I will leave it to others to decide the inspiration factor.”
- "This speech and the election is not about Barack Obama, it's about the American people and the direction we need to go in, to get us out of the ditch we are in," said Obama strategist David Axelrod.
- The GOP must position itself, he said, as “a broadly center-right party that achieves the goals of the American people” in a time of soaring costs for energy, health care and other needs.
- Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land: enough! This moment, this election is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On Nov. 4, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."
- As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll help our auto companies retool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy; wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.
- For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what history teaches us that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it, because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.
- THE FACTS: Obama was referring to former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, who made the remarks to The Washington Times in July. Gramm later said he was talking about the nation’s leaders not the American people. Obama did not mention that McCain promptly repudiated the remarks and that Gramm resigned as McCain’s campaign co-chairman within days. “I strongly disagree” with Phil Gramm’s remarks, McCain said at the time. “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me.”
- "Change happens because the American people demand it — because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time," he said. "America, this is one of those moments."
- His most detailed discussion was of energy policy. “As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I’ll help our auto companies retool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I’ll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars,” he said “And I’ll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy — wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can’t ever be outsourced.”
August 29, 2008
- “The American people are willing to tolerate faircontrasts,'' Axelrod said. “If they feel you are being fair,they don't mind you being tough.''
- “Change happens because the American people demand it — because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time,” Obama told the adoring crowd at Invesco Field. “America, this is one of those moments.”
- "I applaud Senator McCain for selecting Governor Palin. This decision is yet another example of why the American people can trust him to make wise decisions and to confidently lead this country," Bush said in a statement.
August 30, 2008
- “It will not serve as a farewell to the American people, and it certainly will not attack Barack Obama,” she said.
- As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll help our auto companies retool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy — wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.
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