Obama says voters tired of 'slash-and-burn' politics
Barack Obama, seeking to rebound from what many commentators saw as an uneven debate performance, told supporters in North Carolina this afternoon that he is convinced that Americans are sick and tired of the kinds of issues that dominated the forum.
During the Wednesday night debate in Philadelphia, Obama was battered by questions about his ties to his former pastor, to a former leader of a violent 1970s radical group, his comments about bitter small-town voters who cling to God or guns, and why he doesn't wear a flag lapel pin.
At a town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C., Obama argued that it was 45 minutes before any substantive issues came up in the debate. He said the voters he has met are "desperate to solve real problems," such as how to deal with home mortgages, college costs, jobs, and the Iraq war.
"Those are the questions the American people are asking," he said. "That's the debate the American people want."
Americans, he said, do not want "say anything, do anything, anything goes, slash-and-burn politics."
But this election, voters will not be confused by "bamboozling" or "hoodwinking," Obama said, as the crowd applauded.



Almighty God is with you. You have lot of heavyduty ahead of you. Belive in family, friends, faith,fellows, funds, future with freedom and fairness and without favor or fear.
God Bless America
THIS VOTER IS SICK & TIRED OF OBAMA & HIS WHINING & CRIES OF "UNFAIR" WHENEVER HE'S ASKED TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR SOMETHING HE' DOESN'T WANT BROUGHT BEFORE THE VOTERS.
HEY PAT KNIF...YOU SAY THAT SENATOR OBAMA IS WHINING. I GUES YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION. HILARY HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT ALWAYS BEING ASKED QUESTIONS FIRST, HAS CRIED ON QUE, TALKS ABOUT THE BIG BOYS THAT ARE AFTER HER, HAS A HUSBAND WHO IS CONSTANTLY MOANING & GROANING HOW THE MEDIA IS TREATING HE WIFE, HAS SURROGATES CALL GOV RICHARDSON A JUDAS...ETC, ETC, ETC.
CLEAN OUT YOUR EARS AND HEAR THE TRUTH.
We want policy like Obama promising...No new taxes for anyone under $250,000 a year, college education for the masses, universal health care, and somone that will go over there talk to those nutty Iranians and make them be nice, who wouldn't vote for that MAN!
TALK ABOUT CRYING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6PMMhV8veM
NOT TO MENTION THE LIES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4
This was the most even-handed debate thus far. Obama's followers seem to believe that any questioning of their leader is heresy.
Whining is a very overused word. The simple fact is that the media, debate commentators, pundits and Hillary are piling on Barack because he's winning. He has weathered their unsubstantiated bull so far, and he'll continue to fight back, not whine.
I agree completely with what Obama is saying.
It should be obvious to anyone paying attention how these stupid irrelevant details take more precedent over the state of the economy, war, and civil liberties being lost. And for what?
I haven't heard anything from these pampered "News" people that expresses my concerns as well as Obama has. I am a Gun clinging, God lovin man living in Po-Dunk Oregon. Yes, I am bitter about being having to work longer and longer hours to scrape by. I am bitter after losing almost all respect for my government these past 10 years or so. I am bitter about so much that I cant change, see it getting worse, and all I have is this stupid little vote every couple years that doesnt do a damn thing to help out all us who need it the most.
HEY PAT KNIF OBAMA AND HIS SUPPORTERS ARE TIRED OF PEOPLE TO LAZY TO ACTUALLY LISTEN AND OPEN THIER EYES TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. SICK OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT ARE TO LAZY TO CHANGE A DAMN THING THAT YOU EVEN GRIPE ABOUT HAVING TO HEAR ABOUT SOMEONE WILLING ATTEMPT TO DO SO.
I am one of those people who is tired of hearing about immaterial issues (who knows whom, who wears what, who's ahead in the race) and wants to hear how the candidates would solve the problems this country has accumulated.
Barack,
I could not agree more. You can see why the thorny problems of our time - Social Security, Iraq, Iran, terrorism, housing, education, environment - do not get solved by politicians who think this type of squabbling is what we pay them to do. Real problem solvers like Mike Bloomberg have little interest in the political gamesmanship and thrive on bringing talent into their organizations (like Joel Klein) and solving big problems (NY schools, crime, guns, environment).
Keep up the focus on the issues, on your solutions to those issues, and somehow manage to press your sunny message of hope and inclusiveness throughout this silly attack season.
People die in Iraq and ABC news talks about lapel pins.
I will say I have seen a side of the Clintons that is really disgusting in my opinion. It seems to me at this point Hilary is trying everything in her power to knock Obama down and it makes her look very unflattering in my opinion. I mean I really don’t even know what she is bringing to the table at this point as the next president because all I here from here is negative attacks toward Obama. I mean really it’s time to focus on the agenda at hand and that is who the best candidate is. Now she’s in bars drinking beer taking whiskey shots and now she’s a hunter and when she was asked when was the last time she shot a gun she said that irrelevant. If you’re a hunter than you shot a gun recently which she probably never did in her life. I like Hilary but she just seem so full of BS to me at this point and
trying anything in her power to when the white house and to me it’s starting to look bad on her part.
Pat Knif:
I might do a little whining myself (and so would you) if people insisted on bringing up 'guilt by association' topics over and over and over. Ever have a buddy that made an ass of himself? Why haven't you disowned him? Ever know someone that got arrested? Oh, you better run and hide, according to Hillary, you should've known better and dumped him whenever you first thought he might possibly do something illegal!
Get a clue here, The reason he is protesting (not whining) is because all the nasty issues of the past few months were brought up against him. Hillary's only downturn brought up in the 'debate' was Bosnia. What about the following?
1. claims she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary (who wasn't famous until after she was born
2. claiming Chelsea was jogging around the world trade center on 9/11 (she was home in bed asleep at the time, Chelsea was)
3. She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)
4. She was instrumental in the Irish peace process. denied by all those (other than her) involved there
5. Finally, the Peter Paul episode. Still in trial now and Clinton is up to her ears in it. Google "peter paul hillary" if you are unaware of this issue.
Now anyhow, they didn't bring up any of these things. Brought up Hillary's Bosnia story only which she has mostly defused by laughing about it. You say he is crying unfair , you say he is whining? Get a brain and choose to use it. Unless, of coursem you are a Republican in which case you are learning that the same old, same old style of attack is NOT going to work with this candidate.
Disgusted (and bitter) in Colorado.
Obama and the Country of Doom
Obama spells doom for this country. Not only because of his dubious affiliations with mob members like Rezko and criminals like Auchi, but because of his lack of experience and bias education especially his bizarre religious affiliations. He is like silly putty; able to change his ideas for the public as needed so as to achieve his goal as supreme leader.
His intentions are unclear, but his affiliations are clear. Being surrounded with people like the violent Ayers, or the Hiteresque Wright, or his American hating wife Michelle, or his Kenyan half brother Islamic Jihad terrorist Abongo “Roy” Obama, or his Jewish/Israeli hating best friend Rashid Khalidi, or his close advisor Robert Malley who advocates supporting and helping the terrorist group Hamas, or Mr. McPeaks, Obama’s military advisor who open believes American Jews are the "problem." and “Christian Zionists were driving America's policy in Iraq to benefit Israel,” or Obama’s super delegate and major long term supporter Senator Meeks who openly hates and distrust all whites and gays or Obama’s most dangerous affiliation to Mr. Auchi who was Saddam Hussein right hand man and made billions in Iraq and has been a important supporter and behind the scene man throughout Obama’s rise to power.
And besides all this questionable laundry in Obama’s life, another serious question is why is Obama protected and promoted by the media? Is this also being directed from behind the scenes? The American public has been fooled before and I guess those in power know we can be fooled again. (Kennedy’s assassination, Martin Luther King’s assassination, the invasion of Iraq…).
The fact that Obama has made it this far demonstrates the collective lack of discriminative intelligence and education of this country. And nothing demonstrates this better than how well Obama plays his black card; which plays on our fear of being labeled a racist.
CAPITAL LETTERS MAKE YOU LOOK SMARTER AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANT RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.
Sheesh, the people on the intarwebs these days. More power to Obama and a return to the kind of politics we can look at with pride and tell our children of as though from a golden age. I still can't believe we're attacking him for implying that people can better themselves. It's not that people cling to some issues, it's that they forsake rational evaluation of all of the issues if it means going against those few. I don't care if you cling to guns or religion. I care about why you do it. Do it for a good reason, and that's fine. Don't do it because it's all you know how to do.
I was just watching Reliable Sources address the debate, and yeah, I think we can all agree the "flag pin" question was a bit much, though I didn't realize "the women on the street" who asked the question was actually someone the NY Times quoted about this, but all these other questions really were legitimate. The media has focused on the Rev. Wright and "bitter" remarks ad nauseum, and this IS the first debate held since these issues came up. But the larger point is that of the other 20-something debates, many of them focused rather harshly on Clinton's negatives. This ONE debate was more focused on Obama's, the front runner's, negatives, and the whining is deafening - just deafening. I think that highlights pretty starkly just how great the bias in the media really is. And let's face it, if he had actually performed well, no one would be saying a word, other than to praise how he tough he is.
This entire argument highlights IMO a greater issue, the liberal media's overwhelming favoritism toward Obama, and that's actually the more substantive issue here. When Clinton was the front-runner, that was the "excuse" for her getting the majority of the hammering. If Obama makes it to the general election, you can bet he's going to get roughed up plenty and that these issues are going to come up again.
So . . . he can cry me a river. He's sure never complained about be the liberal media's darling.
If we can just concentrate on the issues...who cares about flag pens, or what your pastor says (my pastor thinks that homosexuals should be run over by a steamroller in the middle of the street...I don't agree...sometimes you have to chew the meat and spit out the bones). We need a strong leader. Someone who will continue to fail us as Americans. Someone who will stand up for us and care about us. Let's vote for the best person for that job. It is time for Americans to grow up and be the best country in the world, like we were meant to be!
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