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Archive for May, 2008
May 1, 2008
- “Five years after George Bush declared ‘mission accomplished’ and John McCain told the American people that ‘the end is very much in sight’ in Iraq, we have lost thousands of lives, spent half a trillion dollars, and we’re no safer,” Obama said in a statement released by his presidential campaign.
- • A summer “tax holiday” between Memorial Day and Labor Day, first proposed by McCain. “Just give the American people a little break for the summer. Maybe they can go a little further, maybe they can buy a better meal,” says the Arizona Republican. He has also called for greater conservation and more emphasis on nuclear power and alternative forms of energy.
- "There's so much pain in this whole process," he said. "It may be premature to get a reconciliation — at least we can have a cease-fire and get back on the agenda items that matter to the American people."
May 2, 2008
- "Five years after George Bush declared 'missionaccomplished,' and John McCain told the American people that'the end is very much in sight' in Iraq, we have lost thousandsof lives, spent half a trillion dollars, and we're no safer.It's time to turn the page on Washington's false promises andfailed judgments on foreign policy," said Democratic candidateBarack Obama.
May 7, 2008
- “They bypassed the (Appropriations) committee. They refused to allow us to have any amendments,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “And so the voices of half the American people are not allowed to be heard on the House floor.”
- “The American people are puzzled, perplexed and I think angry” that money is going toward Iraq when there are still emergencies inside the United States, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told reporters. Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
May 8, 2008
- “We think the American people want action - and they deserve action,” said Kennedy. “It’s a complex disease and it requires comprehensive strategies to fight it.”
May 9, 2008
- “The American people don’t want to make their neighbor’s payment when they’re having trouble making their own,” said Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas.
- Kennedy, 76, without naming names, said Obama should picksomeone who “is in tune with his appeal for the nobleraspirations of the American people.''
- Obama should choose a running mate who "is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people," Kennedy said. "If we had real leadership — as we do with Barack Obama — in the No. 2 spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful."Ouch.
- Kennedy, 76, without naming names, said Obama should pick arunning mate who “is in tune with his appeal for the nobleraspirations of the American people.''
- “I’m gratified that we’ve got some superdelegates who are coming our way. And I think we’ve got a strong case to make that I will be a nominee that can pull the party together and take on John McCain. Our focus has always been on the pledged delegates and just getting the American people to vote for us. And we think that ultimately that should be the strongest measure of who’s the nominee,” Obama told reporters in Woodburn, Ore.
May 10, 2008
- • Protecting the American people from price gougers and greedy oil traders who manipulate the market.
May 11, 2008
- “I can’t quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that,” he said.
May 14, 2008
- Yet other Republicans said Obama’s record, which they describe as liberal, is fair game for the fall campaign. “It’s very legitimate, parts of his vision and his agenda that the American people need to be aware of,” said Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, a member of the party leadership.
- Later Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee reiterated its call for Cindy McCain to release her tax returns. “The fact the McCain family was holding Sudan-related investments even as John McCain was out on the campaign trail calling for sanctions is a reminder of why the American people expect and deserve full disclosure from their elected officials,” said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera.
May 15, 2008
- Obama didn't laugh off his reply. "I think the American people are smarter than that," Obama said. "The bowling's a wonderful example." Obama said he was having a great time talking to voters and signing autographs when "some woman" invited him to bowl a couple of frames and "although I haven't bowled in 25 years," he went and he did so (bowling a 37 in seven frames).
- “I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress,” the senator said, “and will, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of either party to get things done for our country.” Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
- “I am well aware I cannot make any of these changesalone,'' McCain said. “I will respect the responsibilities theConstitution and the American people have granted Congress, andwill, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of eitherparty to get things done for our country.''
- “I am well aware I cannot make any of these changesalone,'' McCain said. “I will respect the responsibilities theConstitution and the American people have granted Congress, andwill, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of eitherparty to get things done for our country.''
- McCain, in a statement issued by his Senate office, said he recognized that “attempts will be made to use my opposition to this bill for another’s political gain” but the “American people deserve to know the truth” about the bill and why he does not support it.
- “In recent years, we have seen an increase in coarse and violent programming, coupled with a decrease in local news and hard-hitting journalism,” Inouye said Thursday night. “To say these trends are not in the best interest of the American people, and especially our youngest citizens, is clearly an understatement.”
May 16, 2008
- McCain contended that Obama wants to “sit down and negotiate with a government exporting most lethal devices used against soldiers. He wants to sit down face to face with a government that is very clear about developing nuclear weapons. … They are sponsors of terrorist organizations. That’s a huge difference in my opinion. And I’ll let the American people decide whether that’s a significant difference or not. I believe it is.”
- McCain contended that Obama wants to “sit down and negotiate with a government exporting most lethal devices used against soldiers. He wants to sit down face-to-face with a government that is very clear about developing nuclear weapons. … They are sponsors of terrorist organizations. That’s a huge difference in my opinion. And I’ll let the American people decide whether that’s a significant difference or not. I believe it is.”
- “It was about politics, about trying to scare the American people,” Obama said. “And that’s what will not work in this election because the American people can look back at the track record of George Bush, supported by John McCain,” and conclude that the nation was misled about the Iraq war’s justification, cost, length and benefit to America.
- "I don't know how the politics of this plays out," Obama told reporters Friday. "But I know what we have done over the last eight years has not worked. … I believe there is no separation between John McCain and George Bush when it comes to our Middle East policy and I think their policy has failed. I will make that case as strongly as I can to the American people. I trust the American people to trust their own eyes and to see what the results have been."
- "It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don't have enemies," McCain said Friday at the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Ky. "But that is not the world we live in, and until Senator Obama understands that reality, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment, and determination to keep us safe."
- "So, I mean the American people are gonna look at the evidence and they're gonna say to themselves, 'You know, we don't get the sense that this has been a wise foreign policy or a tough foreign policy or a smart foreign policy,'" Obama said. "This has been a policy that often times has been revolved around a lot of bluster and big talk but very little performance, and what the American people want right now is some performance."
May 17, 2008
- McCain agreed, at least, that there were huge differences between himself and Obama on foreign policy, and said he’d be happy to let the American people decide who was right.
- “It would be a wonderful thing if we lived in a world where we don’t have enemies. But that’s not the world we live in. And until Senator Obama understands that reality, the American people have every reason to doubt whether he has the strength, judgment and determination to keep us safe,” McCain said in a speech to the National Rifle Association in Louisville, Ky.
- “I’ll let the American people decide whether that’s a significant difference or not,” he said. “I believe it is.”
May 18, 2008
- Arizona's Senator McCain said the same day that he took“the president at his word'' that he was not referring toObama. Still, “it does bring up an issue we will be discussingwith the American people'' of “why does Senator Obama want tosit down with a state sponsor of terrorism?'' McCain said.
- Arizona's Senator McCain said the same day that he took“the president at his word'' that he was not referring toObama. Still, “it does bring up an issue we will be discussingwith the American people'' of “why does Senator Obama want tosit down with a state sponsor of terrorism?'' McCain said.
- “It's very important to convey a sense that these symbolsdon't belong to one party or another, they belong to all theAmerican people,'' said Danzig, 63, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
May 19, 2008
- “It appears that John McCain is very much a creature of Washington,” he said. “One of the things we’ve said is if we’re going to change policies … that we were going to have to change how Washington works. We can’t have special interests dictating what’s happening there. It does appear that over the last several weeks John McCain keeps on having problems with his top advisers being lobbyists in some cases for foreign governments or other big interests that are doing business in Washington. That, I don’t think, represents the kind of change the American people are looking for.”
- Obama said his wife “loves this country. For them to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her is, I think, just low class. I think that most of the American people would think that as well.”
- In the ABC interview, Obama, an Illinois senator andDemocratic front-runner to contest the November electionagainst Republican John McCain, called the video "low class"and said "most of the American people would think that aswell."
May 20, 2008
- Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who won Kennedy's endorsement earlier this year, issued a statement in which he said: "Michelle and I were saddened to hear the news about Sen. Kennedy's condition today, and we plan on doing whatever we can to support him, Vicki, and the entire Kennedy family during this time. Sen. Kennedy has been a fighter for his entire life, and I have no doubt that he will fight as hard as he can to get through this. He has been there for the American people during some of our country's most trying moments, and now that he's facing his own, I ask all Americans to keep him in our thoughts and prayers."
- And yet, in spite of all the doubt and disappointment — or perhaps because of it — you came out on a cold winter’s night in numbers that this country has never seen, and you stood for change. And because you did, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
- The road here has been long, and that is partly because we’ve traveled it with one of the most formidable candidates to ever run for this office. In her 35 years of public service, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has never given up on her fight for the American people, and tonight I congratulate her on her victory in Kentucky. We have had our disagreements during this campaign, but we all admire her courage, her commitment and her perseverance. No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and yours will come of age.
- My faith in the decency, and honesty, and generosity of the American people is not based on false hope or blind optimism, but on what I have lived and what I have seen in this very state.
- Obama put it in a measured way Tuesday night in his speech from Des Moines. "We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people," he said, "and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States."
May 21, 2008
- "We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people," he told some 7,000 jubilant supporters who roared back, "Obama '08."
- “Tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America,” Obama said.
- "We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegateselected by the American people, and you have put us withinreach of the Democratic nomination for president of the UnitedStates," Obama told a rally in Iowa, site of his breakthroughvictory in the first Democratic contest on January 3.
- “And when he was called on it, his top lobbyists actually had the nerve to say, ‘The American people won’t care about this.’ Well, I think the American people do care about it.”
- “And when he was called on it, his top lobbyist actually had the nerve to say the American people won’t care about this,” Obama said.
May 25, 2008
- “You must do something at least symbolically,” Rove said. “Do something that will give the American people confidence that you will be able to do what you say you will do.”
- "If Senator McCain … does not succeed in winning the presidency … it will be because Senator McCain did not present, and his party did not present, a vision, an agenda, a platform and a series of programs that actually resonated positively with the American people," he said.
May 26, 2008
- "As we all know, the American people have grown sick andtired of the war in Iraq," McCain told hundreds of veterans andtheir families gathered for a ceremony honoring U.S. servicemembers killed in conflicts.
- “He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”
May 27, 2008
- “He really has no experience or knowledge or judgment about the issue of Iraq and he has wanted to surrender for a long time,” the Arizona senator added. “If there was any other issue before the American people, and you hadn’t had anything to do with it in a couple of years, I think the American people would judge that very harshly.”
- "As we all know, the American people have grown sick andtired of the war in Iraq," McCain told hundreds of veterans andfamilies at a ceremony honoring U.S. service members killed inbattle. "I understand that, of course.
- “No cameras. No reporters. And we all know why. Senator McCain doesn’t want to be seen, hat-in-hand, with the president whose failed policies he promises to continue for another four years,” Obama chided while campaigning in Nevada. “But the question for the American people is: Do we want to continue George Bush’s policies?”
May 28, 2008
- “The Blue Dog philosophy is catching on in a lot of the country,” Tanner said in an interview in the Capitol. “The American people are looking for pragmatists rather than ideologically driven candidates, and they want people who pledge allegiance to the country first and to a political party second.”
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