Obama rolls up his sleeves, hits hard

[babylonsister]

Obama rolls up his sleeves, hits hard
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 9/7/08

Barack Obama

Obama arrived in Indiana, a battleground state, Saturday with a renewed urgency and a modified stump speech.


TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — His shirtsleeves are rolled up higher, his tone is a bit more biting. Stirring up supporters at a fairground's show barn here with a sharp critique of John McCain, Barack Obama looks and sounds like a candidate who realizes time is running out.

With an expiration date in sight on a presidential campaign that once seemed interminable, Obama enters the final 58 days with the polls tight, his opponents appropriating his mantra of change and the political deck reshuffled with a new wild card in form of the first female Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin.

Obama arrived in this battleground state Saturday with a renewed urgency and a modified stump speech, delivering his most unforgiving assessment of his challengers since the Democratic National Convention, when the Illinois senator began lambasting McCain as someone who “doesn’t get it.”

And after days of tiptoeing around Palin, Obama even took his first direct swipe at the Alaska governor: “I know the governor of Alaska has been, you know, saying she is change,” Obama said at a town hall here. “But when you {have} been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark person. That is not change, come on. I mean, words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.”

The increasingly harsh appraisals fill out the tableau of a nominee almost singularly focused on the economy in the post-convention phase of the campaign. Obama has spent most of the week since accepting his party’s nomination in Rust Belt states, appearing on factory floors, talking up his vision of a new economy and casting McCain as out of touch with working families and a clone of President Bush.

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[otohara]

1. They Do Just Make Shit Up

and then the fucking media repeats it as truth or ignores it completely.

[msongs]

2. that's how to frame the campaign, like it or not and they r good at it nt

[blm]

7. Just today on CNN I heard that Obama hasn't come out all week and can't get any attention

now that Palin is in the race. The fuckers are lying their asses off and doing exactly what they did in 2004 - they cut DOWN the coverage of Dem nominee, heavily editing out most of the toughest counterattacks, and then beef up the coverage of the GOPs - a month or two down the road we'll hear it's Obama's fault his 'message isn't resonating' with the American people.

That's how corpmedia lies to the American people.

[FrenchieCat]

8. Cause they think we are stupid.

[Olney Blue]

3. We really did nominate an excellent candidate. Go Barack!

[Windy]

4. He needs to get through the media filter though...

and he's not getting even coverage! What do we do about that??? What can we do? This is what cost Kerry the election!

[Cha]

5. I don't think Obama has been "tiptoeing"..

they don't want to help the cmwhore$ make palin seem like a fookin' martyr.

[elocs]

6. He needs to campaign McCain into the ground

until all America sees that he is just a tired and little old man.