Obama: "Vindicated"
DES MOINES, IA – The end is, perhaps, just the beginning.
With just four days to go until America elects the next president, Barack Obama returned to the state that launched his once unlikely bid for the White House.
In his speech here, he also hailed the John McCain of the 2000 elections and suggested his rival had modified his principles to try to win this time around.
Several polls show the Democratic nominee with a double-dig lead over McCain in the Hawkeye State, where his big win in the January caucus helped set him on the course to win the nomination. His last visit to this city was May 20. Today, as he did then, Obama thanked his supporters – saying he would “always be grateful” to the people of Iowa -- and told them they started a movement that has changed the political landscape.
“We began in the depths of winter nearly two years ago, on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois," he said as the crowd basked in the sun of a 70-degree day here. "Our first stop was Cedar Rapids, then we came to Des Moines and then we went to Waterloo. It was cold at every stop. It was 7, 8 degrees then."
He said that at the start, he faced a steep climb to win the nomination, but that he believed even then that the American people were ready for something new.
“On the day of the Iowa caucus, my faith in the American people was vindicated, and what you started here in Iowa has swept the nation,” he said. “We’re seeing the same turnout. We’re are seeing the same people going and getting line, volunteers, people participating, a whole new way of doing democracy started right here in Iowa and it is all across the country now.”
Obama’s success in winning in this nearly all-white state helped him begin to solidify his support among many black voters who had previously though he had no chance of winning the nation’s highest office because of his race.
The McCain campaign took issue with Obama’s use of the word “vindicated.”
“Hardworking families need a President whose faith in the American people is not predicated on his own election,” wrote spokesman Tucker Bounds in an email. “At a time of mounting economic and foreign policy challenges, this country needs a President like John McCain who is experienced and tested -- and has proven his selfless faith in the American people.”
The speech before a crowd of about 25,000 at a park downtown was largely a repeat of the closing argument Obama has been giving across the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida this week, but it included a tough criticism of McCain, casting him as a man who has changed since his first run for the White House.
“A couple of elections ago, there was a presidential candidate who decried this kind of politics and condemned these kind of tactics and I admired him for it. He said, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land.” Obama began. “Those words were spoken eight years ago by my opponent, John McCain. But the high road didn’t lead him to the White House then, so this time, he decided to take a different route.”
The Illinois senator, who was headed home to Chicago to spend part of Halloween with this daughters before heading to a rally in Indiana, predicted more “slash and burn” attacks from this opponent in the final days and said McCain had called him every name in the book, “everything but a child of God” because he was short on ideas.
As he has done all week and throughout his campaign, Obama talked about the need to get past the ideological debates that divide people, this time using the idea that ideas are not Republican or Democrat to respond to a new McCain ad that uses Obama’s own words.
“Just this morning, the McCain campaign put out an interesting ad, they put out an ad that showed me praising John McCain and Sen. Lieberman for their work on global warming – as if there’s something wrong with acknowledging when an opponent’s said or done something that makes sense,” he said incredulously. “I mean, I don’t know exactly what they were thinking but I do that all the time. I’m happy to give-- on torture, I think John McCain has done the right thing. I think we need more of that attitude in Washington. We need more civility in Washington.”
The fact that the campaign would spend an entire morning in a safe state provided some indication of their state of mind going into the final stretch of the final stretch. Several national polls show Obama leading McCain, and several battleground state polls show him ahead or tied in several states Bush won in 2004. The campaign announced today it would begin airing ads in Georgia, North Dakota and McCain's home state of Arizona, all states Bush won last time, because, as campaign manager David Plouffe put it, the campaign saw them as in the "realm of possibility."
(NBC/NJ's ATHENA JONES)
None of this is going to help Obama if he wins and then there is a constitutional crisis over his eligibility. Obama refuses to produce his “vault” certificate and this issue will not go away after the election.
The birth certificate posted on the web is computer generated. it is based upon a certificate signed by a doctor/hospital. To end all of these lawsuits and speculation, you would think that Obama would just release the “vault” certificate and put this matter to a rest. Obama has refused and continues to refuse. At first I thought it might be because his parents weren’t married. I looked at the Hawaii Department of Health website and learned why:
From 1911 to 1972, Hawaii permitted people over the age of one year to apply for a birth certificate. Because Hawaii was a terrority until 1959, many people were born at home; and, did not have a birth certificate from a hospital. To deal with this problem, Hawaii permitted a person over the age of one year (or his parent) to ask Hawaii to register the birth by an affidavit stating that the child was born at home.
That means if a child/person was not born in a hospital, they could ask the State of Hawaii to issue an birth certificate based upon an affidavit.
Thus, Obama’s mom or maternal grandmother could have applied for his birth certificate a year or more after his birth by submitting an affidavit. ?The birth certificate would be issued, and the affidavit would be the “vault certificate” backing it up. Obama’s Kenyan grandmother insists that she was present when Obama was born. It is possible that Obama was born abroad and that his mom and grandmother wanted to make sure that he wouldn’t have a problem in the US and applied for a birth certificate much later, claiming that he was born at home.
Why would Obama run if this was the case? Other politicians do it all the time. Look at Gov Spitzer of NY - knew he had a problem with prostitutes - ran for governor anyway; Gov McGreevy of NJ - knew he had a problem with being gay and going to truckstops - ran anyway; look at John Edwards - knew he had a love child - ran anyway for nomination!
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None of this is going to help Obama if he wins and then there is a constitutional crisis over his eligibility. Obama refuses to produce his “vault” certificate and this issue will not go away after the election.
The birth certificate posted on the web is computer generated. it is based upon a certificate signed by a doctor/hospital. To end all of these lawsuits and speculation, you would think that Obama would just release the “vault” certificate and put this matter to a rest. Obama has refused and continues to refuse. At first I thought it might be because his parents weren’t married. I looked at the Hawaii Department of Health website and learned why:
From 1911 to 1972, Hawaii permitted people over the age of one year to apply for a birth certificate. Because Hawaii was a terrority until 1959, many people were born at home; and, did not have a birth certificate from a hospital. To deal with this problem, Hawaii permitted a person over the age of one year (or his parent) to ask Hawaii to register the birth by an affidavit stating that the child was born at home.
That means if a child/person was not born in a hospital, they could ask the State of Hawaii to issue an birth certificate based upon an affidavit.
Thus, Obama’s mom or maternal grandmother could have applied for his birth certificate a year or more after his birth by submitting an affidavit. ?The birth certificate would be issued, and the affidavit would be the “vault certificate” backing it up. Obama’s Kenyan grandmother insists that she was present when Obama was born. It is possible that Obama was born abroad and that his mom and grandmother wanted to make sure that he wouldn’t have a problem in the US and applied for a birth certificate much later, claiming that he was born at home.
Why would Obama run if this was the case? Other politicians do it all the time. Look at Gov Spitzer of NY - knew he had a problem with prostitutes - ran for governor anyway; Gov McGreevy of NJ - knew he had a problem with being gay and going to truckstops - ran anyway; look at John Edwards - knew he had a love child - ran anyway for nomination!
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Anonymous is desparate & getting sick.
Anonymous, you must not have received the latest right wing talking points memo because you are at least 8 months behind. This is a dead issue. Obama only responded to the wild accusation that he is not a US citizen by posting his birth certificate because he has a policy of dispelling internet lies. Get ready for president Obama on January 4, 2009. Time for you to start trying to get over your racist fear of a black president.
McCain did not prove that Obama is unpatriotic; McCain only proved that he is as stupid as Palin and does not understand the meaning of the term "vindicated." Obama was critiquing those who lacked faith in America, not displaying any lack of faith of his own. McCain also dishonorable and historically uninformed about the racial history of America, which was the actual context for the OBama quote.
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