WITH OBAMA, YES WE CAN !
Hillary Clinton appelle les électeurs à barrer la route à Sarah Palin
AP. ELYRIA, Ohio - En campagne pour Barack Obama
dans l'Ohio, la sénatrice de New York Hillary Clinton s'en est pris dimanche à la candidate à la vice-présidence des républicains, Sarah Palin, en reprenant des arguments déjà utilisés à la
convention démocrate.
Devant 1.200 personnes, dont certaines portaient encore des tee-shirts "Hillary présidente" l'ex-candidate a prévenu que le duo
Palin-McCain ne ferait que prolonger la politique perdante de George W. Bush et Dick Cheney. "Pas question, pas de questions, ni McCain ni Palin" a proféré Hillary Clinton devant cette audience toute acquise.
Mme Clinton avait fait une campagne forcenée
dans cet Etat clé qui lui a apporté ses voix de délégués lors de la primaire du 4 mars. Elle est revenue dans cet Etat éprouvé économiquement dimanche pour encourager ses supporters à
travailler avec autant de vigueur pour Barack Obama et Joe Biden.
"Avec cette élection, les cartes vont être redistribuées" a affirmé la sénatrice à l'université à cycle court du comté de Lorain, à une
cinquantaine de kilomètres de Cleveland. "Il faut en finir avec les politiques inefficaces des huit dernières années" a ajouté Mme Clinton, qui avait été présentée au public par un ouvrier de
l'automobile récemment licencié.
Hillary Clinton a fait campagne auparavant pour Obama en Floride, un autre Etat incertain pour les démocrates, et plusieurs autres
femmes démocrates sont venues apporter leur soutien à Obama dans l'Ohio.
McCain continues Bush policy BY Sergio
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"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life. I spent some years without a kitchen
table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to be blessed by the opportunities of this great nation." -John McCain on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush hijacked our horrors and anxieties and managed dismantle our civil liberties and
alienate the Arab world. After scaring America into a second term and convincing America that John Kerry swift boated his way out of Vietnam, the twenty-second Amendment sits between history and
a third
Bush term.
Now John McCain is looking to continue Bush's foreign policy for another eight years. Everyone thought "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani
would be able to steamroll though the debates and primaries with a constant stream of September 11 references and Islamophobia. As Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden once said, "Everything out
of Giuliani is a noun, a verb, and 9/11." Fortunately Giuliani ran the worst campaign this side of George McGovern, and his Florida strategy failed. As a Floridian, I have some advice for
Giuliani: don't ever depend on the voters of Florida for anything. Unless your state campaign head also happens to be the Secretary of State and head of the elections committee.
The desperate McCain campaign is now delving into their bags of dirty tricks and pulling out their most reliable weapon: Vietnam. The
tactics which made McCain look like a war loony in 2000, convinced America that John Kerry faked his purple hearts in 2004 and avoided mention of Bush's service record have now come full
circle. Facing sheer electoral destruction at the hands of the improbable Boy-God Obama, McCain spokespersons are now constantly mentioning how McCain spent five years in a prisoner of war camp
and that makes him fit to be President.
The quote that bannered this piece was McCain's response to Biden who last week said:
"Your kitchen table's like mine. You sit there at night, after you put the kids to bed, and you talk. You talk about how much you're
worried about being able to pay the bills. But ladies and gentlemen, that's not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience - he'll have to figure out which of the
seven kitchen tables to sit at." -Joe Biden's Vice Presidental nominee acceptance speech.
McCain's response to voter's economic anxieties is at least you're not checked into the Hanoi Hilton. Maybe McCain knows that some of
our boys in desert fatigues might have to make a stay at the Mashhad Marriott down the road. McCain's war posturing seems to be his solution to American economic problems at home.
Don't have a job? Can't pay your bills? Wife doesn't love you? Join the Army. After you get discharged and labeled a hero, you can
divorce your wife, marry a rich heiress and maybe even run for president.