[big campaign] Tracking Update: McCain Speech in Albuquerque, NM 10/06/08

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Hello all, Unfortunately we weren't able to send a tracker to this event. But there's good news: we were able to capture it via online streaming video. Below are the notes from our efforts. Big Highlights - Promises to balance the budget by end of his term. - Suggests Obama is lying to the American people about his record, that he is not to be trusted, that he is unknown. - There are essential things we don't know about Senator Obama or the record he brings to this campaign. - I didn't just show up out of nowhere, after all, America knows me. You know my strengths and my faults. You know my story, my convictions. - whenever I've questioned his policies or his record he's called me a liar. - Rather than answer his critics, he will try to distract you from realizing that he never answers the serious questions. - I don't need lessons in telling the truth to the American people, and if I were to ever need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn't seek advice from a Chicago politician. - My oppnent's touchiness everytime he's questioned about his record, should invite more question. - It's as if the usual rules don't apply. And where other candidates have to explain themselves and their record, Senator Obama seems to think he's above all that. - All people want to know is what has this man ever actually accomplished in govt. What does he plan for America? In short, who is the real Barack Obama? But you ask some questions and all you get in response is another agry barrage of insults. - Who is the real Senator Obama? - Claims Obama was in bed with Fannie and Freddie, didn't lift a finger to help reform before crisis, during crisis, or in weeks since. - Obama and I have differences in how Pres Bush has handled the economy, but he thinks taxes are too low, and I think spending is too high - Far from fighting earmarks, he has been an eager participant in this corrupt system. In one instance he sought 1 mill for a projector at a planetarium in his state. Even the appearance of this kind of insider dealing disgusts Americans. I'm going to stop this if I'm POTUS. Albuquerque, NM: McCain Rally 10/06/08 (Disclaimer: The first half are not direct quotes, the second half is the complete transcript) Speech Highlights - D.C.'s still on the wrong track and we need change, the status quo is not on the ballot. We're going to see change in Wshton, the ? is in what direction do we go? Will our country be a better place under the next president? More secure, prosperous, just society? Will you be better off? Will your sons and daughters grow up in the kind of place you wish for them, rising in the world, finding the best in America? And which candidate has lived their life in the best way to lead this country and commander in chief for our troops? Which one? - Who's ready to lead? In time of trouble and danger, who will put country first? I set out on my own campaign many months ago, I promised from the beginning to be straight with the American people. I didn't just show up out of nowhere, after all, America knows me. You know my strengths and my faults. You know my story, nd my convictions. Though familiartity can be both helpful or not so helpful, it does at least fill out the picture, and answer the essential qestion, you need to know where your candidate came from, what he believes. You need to know before its time to choose. In 21 months, ive kept my promise to level with you to reform Washington and get country moving again. As a senator, I've seen the corruption and wasteful spending of power, and as POTUS I'm going to end them whatever it takes. - I'll propose and singn into laws reforms to give tax breaks to the middle class and to help businesses that can create job. I'll get rising cost of food and gas under control. I'll help families keep their homes and help students struggling to pay for college. I'll make healthcare more accessible and affordable. I'll impose a spending freeze for all but the most essential aspects of govt. I'll revue every agency of the Federal govt. and approve those doing their jobs and remove those that aren't for the people. I'll confront the ten trillion dollar debt on you that the Federal govt has run up and I'll balance the budget by the end of my term in office. - This is the agenda that I have set before my fellow citizens, in the same standards of honesty and candor must be applied to my opponent. There are essential things we don't know about Senator Obama or the record he brings to this campaign. We've all heard what he said, but it's less clear what he's done or will do. What Obama says today and what he's done in the past are often two difft. Things. He's often changed his positions in this campaign. - My opponent has invited serious questioning by implying that he would take off the gloves, since then, whenever I've questioned his policies or his record he's called me a liar. Rather than answer his critics, he will try to distract you from realizing that he never answers the serious questions. Let me reply in the plainest terms that I know, I don't need lessons in telling the truth to the American people, and if I were to ever need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn't seek advice from a Chicago politician. My oppnent's touchiness everytime he's questioned about his record, should invite more question. He's not exactly an open book for a guy who's written two memoirs. It's as if the usual rules don't apply. And where other candidates have to explain themselves and their record, Senator Obama seems to think he's above all that. - Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there'a lways a backstory. All people want to know is what has this man ever actually accomplished in govt. What does he plan for America? In short, who is the real Barack Obama? But you ask some questions and all you get in response is another agry barrage of insults. - Our current economic crisis brings a real point, what was his actual record before this great economic crisis of our lifetimes? This crisis started in our housing market, in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people that couldn't afford it. Bad mortgages were backed by Fannie and Freddie, and it was only time before a contagion of bad debt began to spread. This corruption was encourgaged by dems in Congress and embedded by Obama. Interestly, Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes that if a lie is big enough and repeated enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called for tougher restrictions of Fannie and Freddie, and it could have helped prevent this crisis in the first place. Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie and Freddie, and the dems opposed every effort to reighn them in. - As recently as last year he said sub prime loans were a good idea, well that has plunged this country in the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Hear him talk now you think he always opposed these reckless practices but there's nothing in his record to prove he's done so, nothing, zero, zippo, nada. - I want to tell you, he was surely familiar with the peple who were creating the problem. The executives of Frannie and Freddie have advised him and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has taken more money from Fannie and Freddie than any other Senator in history, with the exception of the chairman assigned to oversee them. With all that money, did he ever talk to the executives about these reckless loans? About the legistlation I proposed? If Obama is sucha champion of regulation, why didn't he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won't tell you but you deserve an answer. - Even after he refused to lift a finger to prevent this crisis, when the crisis hit, he was missing in action. He didn't start making calls to round up votes until after the rescue billfailed in the house and the markets crashed. We continue to see the price of delay today as the markets cont. to fall. Today the DOW has fallen below 10,000. Yet, members of his own party said they felt no pressure to pass . Why didn't he make the effort, why did he let it fail for a full week without doing a thing. I suspended my campaing, I wnet back to washtinton. - On taxes, again, we see a difference between what Obama said today, what he did yesterday, and what he's actually done. He's had many difft plans to raise your taxes. During the primary he promised to double taxes on every American with a divident or an investment. He promised to raise payroll taxes, he promised higher taxes on electricity. Now he claims he'll give 95% of you tax relief. He promised the same thing when he was running for senate in Illinois, but once in office never did so. Instead he voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000 a year, saying it was to get our priorities back on track. To raise your taxes? If he is such a defender of the MC, why did he vote to raise your taxes? Whatever happened to the cuts he promised when running, and why should the MC trust him to keep promises he's already broken. - Obama and I have differences in how Pres Bush has handled the economy, but he thinks taxes are too low, and I think spending is too high. Govt is out of control, spending has made a weaker dollar, prices of groceries and gas are killing jobs. I will veto pork and wasteful govt spending. Obama has a different plan, he will increase govt spending by over $860 billion. He's denied it, but he refuses to say how much he does plan to spend. What is the total of his increased spending, you have a right to know. America deserves to know. - Obama has also criticized earmark spending. Despite his rhetoric, his budget is full of earmark projects. In his three short years in the Senate, he has requested a million dollars for every day in office. Far from fighting earmarks, he has been an eager particiapant in this corrupt system. In one instance he sought 1 mill for a projector at a planetarium in his state. Even the appearance of this kind of insider dealing disgusts Americans. I'm going to stop this if I'm POTUS. - I have made every single donor to my campaign publicly available, while Senator Obama has taken in over 200 million dollars from undisclosed sources. We have already seen the potential for fraud because of his refusal to disclose his donors. His campaign had to return $33,000 in illegal foreign funds from Palestinian donors, and this weekend, we found out about another $28,000 in illegal donations. Why has Senator Obama refused to disclose the people who are funding his campaign? Again, the American people deserve answers and deserve to know. - On health care, Senator Obama has been misleading you about my plan to give you more money for health care, and he has been equally misleading about his own plans. He has said his goal is a single payer system where government is in charge of health care and bureaucracy stand between you and your doctor. Under the plan he has proposed, he will fine families, can you believe that, that don't have the kind of health insurance that Senator Obama tells them to purchase. He will fine employers who do not offer the health insurance that he thinks they should offer. - What he doesn't say, and what nobody has asked, is how big his fines will be. What he doesn't want you to know is that with a small fine, his plan will encourage companies to just pay the fine, drop existing health care coverage for their employees and leave them with only one real option: government run health care. - Who is the real Senator Obama? Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? Is he the candidate who talks about regulation or the politician who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and turned a blind eye as they ran our economy into a ditch? - Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? We can't change the system with someone who's never fought the system. He's never taken on the leaders of his own party on anything. - Washington is on the wrong track and I'm going to set it right. The American people know my record. They know I am going to change Washington, because I've done it before. They know I'm going to reform our broken institutions in Washington and on Wall Street because I've done it before. They know I'm going to deliver relief to the middle class, because that's what I've done. - You don't have to hope that things will change when you vote for me and SP. You know things will change, because I have been fighting for change in Washington my whole career. I've been fighting for you my whole life. That's what I'm going to do as President of the United States. Fight for you and put the government back on the side of the people. - Thank you and God bless. -- Sara DuBois Tracking / Communications Manager ProgressiveAccountability.org [email protected] 202-609-7681 (office) 410-967-7306 (cell) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. 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