Obama continues Hispanics push

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ESPANOLA, N.M. -- Barack Obama intensified his push for Latino voters today with an outdoor rally in Espanola, a city in northern New Mexico that's 84 percent Hispanic.
He brought with him one of the country's chief Hispanic validators: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who greeted the crowd warmly in a mix of Spanish and English. In Spanish, he assured the crowd -- 9,500 people, says Obama's campaign -- that Obama believed in family and in religion.
Obama, delivering the latest in a series of speeches on the economy, sprinkled in references to specific concerns of Hispanic families, noting that they've been the target of predatory lenders and often don't have health insurance. And then he made a blunt pitch for their support.
"To The Hispanic community, I want you to start actually voting your numbers," he said. "Right here in New Mexico, you'll be the difference-maker. Don't stay home. Just remind yourself: Si se puede! Si se puede!"
Had he stuck to his prepared text, Obama would have said that in 2004, 40,000 registered Hispanic voters didn't vote, while John Kerry lost the state by less than 6,000 votes.
Obama also said today that he would meet tomorrow with his economic team to devise a plan, which he called a "Homeowner and Financial Support Act," to provide capital and liquidity to the financial system, and to help struggling families restructure their mortgages. It's unclear yet what exact form the plan will take. And he continued to mock John McCain for embracing economic populism and regulation after a career spent advocating a hands-off approach to corporate America.
"John McCain can't decide whether he's Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich," Obama said. "You cannot just run away from your long-held views or your life-long record."
Obama hosts two fund-raisers in Albuquerque tonight before heading to Florida for events tomorrow and Saturday.



I would like to see President Obama do more adds in Spanish with himself speaking in Spanish. Keep pushing the word and let's get out there and work extra hard to elect President Obama.
I was there!! He is beautiful, he is smart, he is composed, he is the change we need! We were in the third row and felt like he was actually conversing with us as opposed to delivering a speech. He laughed with us, shared our concerns without us actually verbally expressing it. I came back feeling rejuvenated and thought the 7hr wait was worthwhile.
I live in Houston among a large Hispanic community and I hear on a daily how these right wing radio hosts treat Hispanics. These despicable people has nothing but hatred for all immigrants. This time with a large hispanic vote we can put these people out of business and it is not only your right but a duty for all hispanics to make sure they come together and vote large numbers because it will make difference in close elections.
He could just as well be speaking in any language
We still don't understand him or believe him
He should be in Albuquerque...when they launch the hot air balloons
he would fit right in
LET US VOTE FOR HIM ...!!! BARACK OBAMA ,BIDEN08!
The problem is that he can't speak Spanish unless it's on the teleprompter. In fact he can't even speak coherently unless it's on the teleprompter
Except Obama isn't President.
Maybe Obama and his supporters should stop slapping Hispanics in the face over their religion and the fact that so many of them are anti-abortion. I'm Hispanic, I cling to my religion (and my gun), and I oppose abortion, yet Obama and his supporters have bashed anyone who does that. He doesn't speak for me.
obama -biden means more to america than americans realize.this country needs what they have to offer.i think its something beyond politics i am thinking serious history to be made here folks and i am not talking black or white i am talking for the betterment of this country .ibelieve they are looking at us as human beings and nothing else and that alone out weighs this whole political process.
Do you really want to see people voting that have been here long enough to vote and still can not speak english. I was not born in this country and have learned to speak english. We first have to become Americans and understand why we left our countries of birth. The american dream is earned not given out by the goverment.
As a female hispanic voter, I am sick and tired of hearing hate talk from talk show radio hosts such as Limbaugh. The GOP does have two faces. I hope we latinos put them out of business this November 4th. Let's all vote to give the boot the GOP out of the WHite House for good.
Don't forget the Native American push he made in Albuquerque with tribal leaders from across the country. That is historic and significant in its own right-- actually attempting to address or redress Native American concerns.
Antonio - cite one time Obama bashed anyone who was against abortion and the lawful possession of guns - just one legitimate quote. Don't bother - there isn't one - and you are just as ignorant and dishonest as Palin / McCain. If you are NOT a white evangelist, big business, Israeli, a defense contractor or main stream media and vote for the GOP puppets - YOU have to be dumb as a rock. Oh and you're against abortion but are you pro ALL life - all the lives wasted in Iraq, the lives that will be cut short because they have no health care, the lives that will be impacted by climate change that we could alter? Ignorance is the enemy of democracy; you Antonio are the enemy!!
I'm disappointed Barack Obama hasn't said a word about John McCain's and Joe Lieberman's plan to start a war with Iraq, a tiny country which poses no real threat to us, the U.S., but to it's own people being obliterated ffrrom this earth for talking points; Although McCain has the intelligence to understand a middle eastern country without a delivery system for nuclear weapons to reach the U.S. is no threat. But it's a piece of me who wants these John McCain Americans to get their wish; a war in Iraq, a war in Iran, a war in Pakistan, a war in Afganistan; while China and perhaps Russia build alliancies throughout the world, even on our continent. I recently ordered a book to help me learn Mandarin Chinese, I already know spanish.
Have you left wing nut jobs lost your ignorant minds!? Obama is using and insulting the very people he's trying to win over. His recent ad targeting Hispanics is a flat out lie and it's extremely dangerous. What happened to the Obama that was a unifier and above the politcal garbage? He never was. Obama has been one big lie from the very beginning but all his supporters either don't care or are too stupid. Or both. Everything Obama has done in his life has been about him. He's done absolutely nothing for this country. He's everything he says he's not.
TO LISTEN TO OBAMA, IS LIKE LISTENING TO JIM JONES , ADOLF HITLER, GREAT SPEAKERS THAT LEAD YOU TO HELL AND YOU GO, BECAUSE THEY TELL YOU THAT CHANGE IS AT HAND AND ITS FOR YOU AND IT WELL BE THEY WHO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU, OBAMA, JIMMY AND ADOLF TALKED THE TALK AND THOSE WHO FOLLOWED PAID A TEARABLE PRICE
IN HISTORY.
Rico, if you really want to know which candidate is all about himself check out the true character of McCain. Here you have a man who spent his early 20's chasing skirts that were attracted to naval cadets. Settled on marrying a good looking model and fathering a child. Tired of the married life, started chasing the skirts again while married, bored with marriage he requested a combat assignment which eventually resulted in his years as a prisoner of war. While a POW, his wife, Carol had a horrible auto accident was is horrendously disfigured by the accident. She decide not to let McCain know of her condition because of his POW status. When McCain is finally released by the North Vietnamese , he receives a hero's welcome, learns of his wife condition, chooses to follow the hero's limelight, starts chasing the skirts again and soon thereafter divorices his wife. He meets his current wife, Cindy, and marries her to pursue a life a politics. Where is McCains charater when it comes to honoring his pledge to his first wife. This man is all about self and his self interest. Tell me about his so called family values and commitment to his first wife and family.
Its time for a change. I cannot understand how hard working people would vote for the rich man's party -REPUBLICANs. They brain wash the people of America by throwing them a well gnawed bone and take a profit at our expense. Wake up and Change. They have drove this country to the brink of ruin and treat the poor like refuse.
New Mexicans for McCain/Palin!
Oil industry has ruled and riped off the public causing the financial disaster. The borrowing for the war has caused financial waste and given billions to companies who do not even pay taxes. Who thought the National Guard would be sent out of the country? Where is the sacrifice of the upper class? Where does the cash come from to pay workers sub standard pay?
The business community is conserned with down trends in public purchases but with the oil industry is raking in the dough and sucks the money from all parts of the economy in record profits.
Well it looks like the capitolism has failed and is criminal in it's greed.
Hot Air is the Sarah Palin Soap Opera. We have read and watched Episodes of her Family, Troopergate, how many countries she claimed to have visited, her lack of foreign experience, her keeping the money to the Bridge to nowhere and then asked Congress for double the earmark.
If she was a Democrat then the Republicans would be all over her Hot Air.
Now, Hispanics are being used as a pawn when hispanics have been hard working and getting very little pay, no health care or benefits. Their Economy has been hurting especially this week . John McCain showed his lack of caring.
I'm John McCain...and I approve this lie.
Brought to you by your grand old party
Hell has been the last 8 years.Sleeping in Crawford, sleeping at the helm - Bush ignored all the warning of 9/11. It was 9 months into his administration.
The debt was clear and with Greenspan's okay he gave away the Treasury to the Rich. Cheney/Bush lied about that idiot/ Saddham Hussein and mired us in a war where a country [Iraq] has been devastated; thousands of our young men and women have died - thousands more wounded physically and mentally. The COST will be Trillions. McCain has supported all of this!
Hell has been Bush celebrating in Arizona with McCain while New Orleans, that wonderful city of the South, was also devastated. They played while the little people payed.
Hell has been Bush pretending to care about our kids with NoChild Left Behind while cutting educational reform and watching our Educational system plummet to 22nd behind all the developing nations.
Hell has been watching Bush and McCain attempting to privatize Social Security.. Thankfully enough people woke up or we would now be watching the failed Bailout of that program that helps so many senior citizens.
Hell is the LIES about Obama. A man any father and mother would be proud of. Imagine your son going to Harvard and being the editor of their Law Review and then teaching Constitutional Law [ about our liberties and freedom] and then being elected by Chicago [ a huge city of millions] to representative fthem and then sending him to the US Senate.
Hell is watching McCain LIE about his consistent support for Privatization and Deregulation of almost everything he sees. Hell is listening and watching the "Idol" from Wasilla who lies about telling congress she didn't want that bridge [she did.] She left her little town in debt. She knows nothing about the world. And people actually would be comfortable with her at the helm if McCain died. Please!!
VOTE OBAMA/Biden!
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