Richard Warnick‘Senator McCain Just Doesn’t Get It’
I watched Senator Obama’s speech live from Grand Rapids, Michigan this morning. It was another grand slam. Talking Points Memo has a full transcript and video. Bottom line: Obama is connecting with voters, while McCain is still running a campaign of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
Senator McCain just doesn’t get it. Well, Michigan, you and I do get it. That’s why we’re here today. We know the next four years don’t have to look like the last eight. We know we can steer ourselves out of this crisis. Because that’s who we are. Because this is America. We’re a nation that’s faced down war and depression; great challenges and great threats. And at each and every moment, we’ve risen to meet these challenges because we’ve never forgotten that fundamental truth - that here, in this country, our destiny is not written for us; it’s written by us.
It’s time we had a president who understands what it’s like to stand alongside people who have lost their jobs, and walked the picket line with them. Who understands what it’s like to listen to a grown man choke up because he hasn’t just lost his job, he’s lost his pension, he’s lost his healthcare, and he’s trying to figure out how he’s gonna go home that day and explain to his wife and his kids that they’re in trouble and he might not be able to take care of them the way he wants.
There’s something wrong about that. There’s something un-American about that.
UPDATE: According to Politico.com, the McCain campaign is now pulling out of Michigan, conceding its 17 electoral votes to Obama.