FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA SPEAKING AT THE DNC IN CHARLOTTE TUESDAY NIGHT
OBAMA’S SPEECH SEEN
AS CRUCIAL TONITE
By Cash Michaels
Editor
[CHARLOTTE]
After a few days of fiery and some times defiant rhetoric, designed to energize
the Democratic base, President Barack Obama will accept the re-nomination of his party for four more
years tonight at the Time Warner Cable Arena.
The
original venue, the 70,000-seat Bank of America Stadium, could not be used due
to threat of thunderstorms.
It
will be tough duty for the president. No matter how lofty, how promising Obama
paints America’s future, amid the backdrop of a struggling economy, the joIt
will be tough duty for the president. No matter how lofty, how promising Obama
paints America’s future, amid the backdrop of a struggling economy, the jobs
numbers for August come out Friday morning, they’re not expected to be good,
especially since hey have been hovering around 8.3 percent nationally for
several months.
Still,
members of North Carolina’s convention delegation say the president will make
the case tonight to stay the course on the economic front.
“It
would be crazy, now that the economic ship has been righted, to allow [the
Republicans] to come back and get the ship turned upside-down again,” said
State Sen. Dan Blue.
“This
president has shown that he cares,” aid Rep. Alma Adams [D-Guilford]. “We see
some genuineness in this president. He really is concerned about people.”
It
has been an historic week for North Carolina and the Democratic National
Convention in Charlotte.
First
Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the week with a poignant , yet very powerful
address that portrayed her husband as being no different from any other loving
husband and father.
And
yet, she said, once he became president of the United States, the job and
enormous responsibilities didn’t change who he was, but rather further revealed
it.
Wednesday
evening former President Bill Clinton addressed the convention, talking about
the economic challenges Pres. Obama has faced, and how his economic policies
may be slow, but are steady in rebuilding economic growth.
The
president and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are in a statistical dead heat,
most of the national polls show. Next month, the first of three debates begin,
giving each candidate the opportunity to pull ahead in the race to November 6th.
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS
STATE BOARD OF ELECTION REPUBLICANS OPPOSE ADDING NEW
VOTING SITES
[RALEIGH]
The Democrat-led NC Board of Elections has voted to add more early voting sites
in Wake, Hoke, Pamlico, Forsyth, Anson, and Craven counties. The board also voted
to add more operational hours to those sites as well. But Republican board
members opposed the moves, saying that the counties can’t afford to maintain
the extra sites. They also claim that staff will have to shift from one poll to another.
RACIAL JUSTICE ACT HEARING SLATED FOR OCTOBER
[FAYETTEVILLE]
Hearings in the cases of three convicted felons who appealed their cases under
the NC Racial Justice Act, have been scheduled for October 1. All three are
convicted of murder, but opposed the death penalty, and want to commuted to
life sentences. The hearings will determine if they are still eligible under
the old RJA.
CONSERVATIVE GROUP SAYS IT FOUND 30,000 DEAD PEOPLE ON
STATE’S VOTER ROLLS
[RALEIGH]
There are at least 30,000 people across the state who have been pronounced
legally dead, whose names are still registered to vote, says a conservative
group who alleges the possibilities for voter fraud are now greater. The group,
the Voter Integrity Project, presented its list of “dead voters” to the NC Board of Elections to make its
point, and demand action. The group has it has evidence of voter fraud, but
won’t release it right now. The BOE said it would investigate the allegation.
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TRIANGLE NEWS BRIEFS
PARENTS BLAST WAKE SCHOOL FOR BUS FIASCO
Parents
lined up and let Wake Supt. Anthony Tata and the Wake School Board have it for
the school bus problems that started the new school year last week. Tata and
officials apologized profusely for buses arriving late or not picking up
children at their stops. The school system had cut 52 buses from its fleet in a
cost-saving measure, but that resulted in the foul-up. Thirty-four buses have
now been returned to service. Over 75,000 Wake students take a school bus.
NEW RESCUE MISSION THRIFT STORE IS HIRING
A
new 30,000 square-foot thrift store operated by the Durham Rescue Mission is
hiring personnel. The new store, said to be the largest in the Triangle, is
located at Chapel Hill Boulevard, across from Sam’s Club. The mission already
operates two other thrift shops.
WELCOME TO THE RED HAT AMPHITHEATER
When
it first opened a few years ago, the City of Raleigh was concerned about a beer
company purchasing the naming rights to the downtown Raleigh Amphitheater. But
for the next five years, the naming rights will belong to a technology company.
Red Hat has paid the city $1.2 million for privilege of being exclusively
associated with the 6,000 seat open arena where popular rock acts have
performed. The company will also take over the old Progress Energy building at
100 East Davie Street, renaming it “Red Hat Tower.”
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GOOD STORY ON NNPA
NC. LT. GOV. WALTER DALTON
DALTON BATTLES ON IN HIS
CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR
By Cash Michaels
Editor
The
polls have not been kind to Walter Dalton, showing North Carolina’s lieutenant
governor generally trailing his Republican opponent, former Charlotte Mayor Pat
McCrory, by as many as 15 points (52-37 percent) in the latest Elon University
poll Monday in the race for governor.
As
in 2008, when the voter coattails of a popular Democratic presidential
candidate named Barack Obama helped Beverly Perdue outpoint McCrory for the gubernatorial prize,
Walter Dalton may need those coattails again, even though the president is in a
deadheat race currently in North Carolina against Republican Mitt Romney.
Time
will tell.
But
as the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte (which Dalton spoke at)
comes to a close, the lieutenant governor continues to travel across the state,
holding several town hall meetings in communities large and small, answering
questions about the issues.
And
believing that when the smoke clears after the November 6th
elections, Walter Dalton will be the one elected to succeed Gov. Perdue.
“[I’m]
the type of leader North Carolinians want, somebody who will go out and talk to
them,” Dalton, a former state senator, told The Carolinian prior to the convention, adding that as a leader,
he’s also willing, “… to learn from the people of North Carolina.”
In an effort to stir the political pot, Dalton issued a
proposed state government ethics plan that he says he and his administration
would follow if elected.
“Obviously
we’ve seen several scandals over the years from both parties,” Dalton told The
Carolinian. “We need to restore public
trust and confidence in state government.”
Thus far the governor’s race has
been low-key.
While
McCrory has had ads on TV for weeks, Dalton, due to slow fundraising, is only
now unveiling his on-the-air campaign. Per the last campaign finance reports from July, while McCrory had over $4 million in the bank, Dalton had under $715,000 on hand. He'll desperately need any outside money he can get from various Democratic interest groups.
The suddenness with which Gov. Perdue announced that she would not be running for governor in January left capable Democrats flatfooted to vie in the primaries, let alone have time to raise adequate sums of money.
The suddenness with which Gov. Perdue announced that she would not be running for governor in January left capable Democrats flatfooted to vie in the primaries, let alone have time to raise adequate sums of money.
McCrory,
on the other hand, has had the past four years to build his war chest for a
second run after being edged by Perdue in 2008. And given his Republican
connections, money is no object for the party that seeks to dominate North
Carolina state government for the next ten years.
Oddly
enough, The State Employees Association of North Carolina Political Action
Committee decided not to endorse either Dalton or McCrory, saying that neither
gubernatorial candidate spoke to their issues.
Dalton
says despite McCrory’s high-profile and substantial lead in the polls, he can’t
be trusted to protect North Carolina’s middle-class from new taxes on
consumption and services. That would push up the state’s sales tax and local property
taxes, making life more difficult for small businesses in the state.
On
education, Dalton says he’s worked hard to “be a champion of education,”
chairing an education committee in the state Senate for four years, advocating
for community colleges; laid the foundation for the 70 early college high
schools across the state (and gaining praise from the New York Times for
helping to stem the state’s drop-out rate as a result).
Lt. Gov. Dalton charges that
McCrory has supported the $1 billion in “drastic cuts” the Republican-led NC
General Assembly made to the state’s education budget last year, and does not
support the mission of the community college system.
Dalton says McCrory, who was
elected mayor of Charlotte in 1995, and went on to serve seven terms, still has
to explain why he won’t reveal his tax returns for the past few years (Dalton
has turned over his), or if he is indeed an unregistered lobbyist who works for
a large law firm with corporate clientele, but is not an attorney.
According to the McCrory campaign
website, the Republican candidate, if elected governor, wants to, “ modernize
the tax code to spur job creation and productivity; reform education to create
a workforce for the future; make government more responsive to business, and
“fix our broken economy with a new vision and leadership.’”
McCrory is also a proponent for
school choice, he says.
“I have
a passion for education,” he’s quoted as saying on his website. ”We will never
be satisfied until we transform our public schools into centers of excellence.
We cannot achieve excellence by simply spending more money on a broken system;
we must make major reforms. Our primary goal must be to empower students to
grasp control of their adult lives by providing them the necessary skill set to
get a job ”
McCrory’s
Democratic opponent says he, not the former Charlotte mayor, has the record,
and the leadership, to make things happen in North Carolina.
“In think the people want to know
what their leader is going to do. I think they want their leader to engage with
them as I’ve done,” Lt. Gov. Dalton says.
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CASH IN THE APPLE - 9-6-12
By Cash Michaels
NEXT WEEK - I’m in Charlotte for
the first day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and as indicated before, I’m reporting for The
Carolinian Newspaper, The Wilmington Journal and Power 750 WAUG-AM.
Tuesday
is normally the day I write this column. But since Tuesday is also the first
day of the DNC, it makes it hard to write about what I see and hear in a
worthwhile manner.
So
I’ll do just that for next week’s column after I’ve had to chance to get around
here, talk to folks, and see some sites.
I
promise I’ll make it worthwhile.
With
your permission, of course.
Thank
you.
HURRICANE
ISAAC - Last week, on the seventh anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Hurricane Isaac blew in, striking the Gulf Coast again, causing
tremendous flooding and wind damage to Louisiana and Mississippi.
At
press time, at least four people were known dead, but as the water levels in
the respective areas go back down, more bodies are expected to be found of
those who either didn’t want to leave their flood-prone homes, or just didn’t
have a way to get out.
The
morning after Isaac struck Louisiana, I was scheduled to interview CNN/ABC News
political analyst Donna Brazile.
Brazile
is a black woman of history, having managed the presidential campaign of
Democrat Al Gore in 2000.
I’d
interviewed Ms. Brazile before, and knew her to be passionate about the
Democratic Party, politics and the African-American community. So I was
expecting to hear her dissect the Republican National Convention.
But
when she was late calling in for our scheduled appointment, there was something
else on her mind and heart.
Her
family, those of whom were living in and around New Orleans when Isaac struck.
Those living in New Orleans were fine. The city is below sea level, and after
the old levee system failed during Katrina, thus causing massive flooding and
loss of life, the new pump system installed did its job.
But
Brazile went on to tell me that some of her family who lived in parishes
outside of New Orleans, in areas which have never flooded before, all of a
sudden found themselves rushing to flee their homes as rivers of water came
barreling down their streets.
They
got out OK, Brazile said, but all of her family was accounted for except one, a
sibling who had not been heard from. Her heart was heavy with concern.
I
told Donna Brazile that our hearts, and prayers, were with her, and I prayed
that all would be fine in the end.
We
went on with our interview.
Since
then, I have not seen or heard anything about Donna Brazile’s family in
Louisiana. I hope that’s a good thing. I hope that all of her family survived
the storm.
I
was also saddened to hear that Isaac took the renovated home in Louisiana of Prof.
Melissa Harris-Perry, host of her own show
on MSNBC. It was an old home in an old neighborhood, and Perry and her husband
took pride in purchasing it, and renovating it to live in.
When
the powerful winds and rain of Isaac struck, no one was in the home, and only
possessions were lost, thank GOD. Still, to lose one’s home, even to natural
disaster, is heartbreaking.
We
know Prof. Harris-Perry and her family will pull it together again. Still, we
wish them the very best.
THE GOP CONVENTION - While they’re
still fresh in my mind, some thoughts about last week’s Republican National
Convention in Tampa, Florida.
What
a wreck! The whole purpose of a national political convention is to nominate a
candidate for president, and express a vision for the future of the nation.
Well,
the Republicans certainly nominated their candidate, namely former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, along with
his faithful sidekick, Rep. Paul Ryan for vice president.
And
both men did tell us that they would create 12 million jobs over the next four
years, on top of repealing Obamacare.
My
problem with Romney and Ryan is they lied so much in their respective
convention addresses, that I didn’t know what to believe.
Indeed,
the fact checkers for all of the major newspapers and media organizations in
the nation all agreed that truth was a rare commodity with the Romney camp
before, during and after the RNC Convention, and the lies usually were
incorporated to mischaracterize President Obama’s record, if not President Obama himself.
What
troubled me even more is that these two men of “faith” apparently don’t give a
blaze. As long as the president gets the business-end of a bad story, no lie is
too big to tell.
That
is so wrong, and the American people deserve better this and every election.
And
yet, it just might work. Enough Americans are so anxious to get rid of Barack
Obama, that they’re willing to believe anything bad or made up about him just
to get rid of him.
And
the Republican Party is willing to install phony voter ID laws across the
nation to make sure that blacks, the poor and young people are intimidated
enough to stay away from the polls on Election day in November, thus ensuring
that Obama goes down.
So
yes, this is the most important election in our generation. If we don’t vote
come Nov. 6th, the world, as we know it, will change for the worst.
I
want better for my children.
Don’t
you?
RACE
AND THE GOP - As always, the diverse, understanding Republican Party onstage
during one of its national conventions IS NOT the same as the audience of
delegates at the same convention.
At
last week’s convention in Tampa, Fla., of the 2,286 delegates in attendance, on
47…just 2 percent, were black.
Match
that to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal
poll that tallied zero percent of African-Americans polled say they support the
Romney-Ryan ticket, and you can see why the Republican Party continues to have
a problem with communities of color.
The
GOP was tickled pink to trot out former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former Democratic Alabama Congressman
Artur Davis to show that at least some
black people think the Republican is the place to be.
Rice,
who had ramped up her anti-Obama rhetoric of late, is, and should be respected
as a person of high achievement. Unfortunately, the fact that she allowed
herself to play second fiddle to a president (George W. Bush) who didn’t even know how to speak the King’s
English in public, will always detract from her stature in my eyes.
And
Davis, who actually co-chaired Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, has high-tailed to the GOP only after the voters of
Alabama totally rejected his Blue Dog behind in the race for governor a few
years ago. The poor man’s ego couldn’t take the rejection (primarily because
black voters there couldn’t stand his opposing their interests), so Davis moved
from Alabama, and found a new home in Virginia where he hoped to start a fresh
career as a black Republican.
Good
luck with that, Artur. That turncoat fits you well.
And
yet, while Artur, Condy and a few other GOP’ers of color were onstage singing
the praises of their otherwise truth-challenged party, out in the audience at
the convention, a black mother, working for CNN as a camerawoman, lugging heavy
equipment through the crowd as she worked hard to bring the story to her
viewers, was racially accosted by two white attendees at the convention, who
literally threw peanuts at her, laughingly saying afterwards that they were
only,”…throwing food to the animals.”
Once
GOP convention officials confirmed whatever, they kicked the two racist morons
out, and I assume they took away their credentials to attend.
Gee,
Republican Party, it’s easy, so very easy, to quickly say that we shouldn’t
blame the entire political party on the stupid, outrageous racist actions of a
few.
But
when that same political party, and its leaders, have an extraordinary record
in recent times of “dog whistling” racially divisive mantras for the expressed
purpose of maximizing the white vote against a black president, on top of
passing racially restrictive voter ID laws designed to limit African-American
voter turnout this fall, then one can very easily make an exception.
What
was it that South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, a Democrat and the third most powerful
African-American in Congress, tell us last week?:
“There
has been a theory put forth in this country, from its inception, that there are
certain gene pools that are not as good as other gene pools, and by that I mean
that some people are just inherently unequal. [The theory says] there are some
people who are just inherently inferior and not capable of doing certain
things.”
“When
people see that this longstanding philosophy that [has been] perpetuated
forever is getting a very, serious, in-your-face denigration of its own
veracity or validity,
then they try to fight it off.”
“No
African-American is supposed to have the capacity, least more the capability,
of being president of the United States. There are people who actually feel
that way.”
Lord
knows the Democratic Party isn’t near perfect, and I’ve had my disagreements
with some of the policy actions of President Obama, as many of us have had.
But
all of that pales in comparison with the absolutely disturbing pattern of
behavior we’re seeing on the Republican side of the political coin, and I don’t
think it’s a stretch to say most African-Americans, if not most Americans
period, see it too.
So
if you’re black and in the Republican Party, enjoy the ride. But while you’re
doing so, at least have the decency and the guts to speak out and challenge
your party when it does wrong.
Otherwise,
what good are you?
EASTWOOD - I know it’s been
virtually a week since actor/director Clint Eastwood did his now infamous “Invisible Obama” routine at
the RNC.
Outside of the fact that I join the
many who have said it was a very said display for someone we all idolize for
his tremendous record of awardwinning moviemaking, I’m not going to rehash all
that went on. Clearly the Romney folks had no idea Clint would go ape and
screw-up their convention (whether they want to admit it or not).
Don’t get me wrong. I understand
that performing is work, and a person’s politics or personal behavior could
well be certainly the polar opposite of their public persona. And that’s their
right.
But I will say this - it is always
disappointing to see some of our favorite entertainers and performers be
different from the positive images we have of them. As much as I loved actor Robert
Conrad from the old “Wild, Wild West” TV
series, it broke my heart to see that this hero of my childhood years was
really nothing but a right-wing creep.
Same with comedian Dennis Miller, who got his start on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Miller shocked us when he became a mainstay on Fox News, first with Sean
Hannity (my skin crawls just to write that
clown’s name), and now with Bill O’Reilly (and equally repulsive conservative Fox meat eater). Miller tends to
lose it now that he’s an old, grumpy man, especially when it comes to talking
about President Barack Obama.
Kelsey Grammar, currently the star of the TV series “Boss” on the
Starz Channel, but more famously known as “Frazier” from “Cheers” is a
Republican, but I’ll give him credit, he doesn’t bash folks over the head with
it. He did produce the popular BET comedy, “Girlfriends,” in case you didn’t
know.
You already know about Chuck
“Walker, Texas Ranger” Norris, and how he
stumped for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president in 2008. Crazy Bruce Willis is Republican too, but only when it comes to
economics. Socially, there’s no way the right-wing wants Willis in its corner.
We all know actor-former
governor-turned-actor-again Arnold Scharzenegger
Actor Jon Voight, father of liberal actress Angelina Jolie, is a
nutty right-winger, which is a shame since I do like his work.
It is just hard separating a celebrity’s
politics from the total package. You pay money to watch their movies and enjoy
their characters, and the next thing you know, they’re on TV saying some of the
stupidest, idiotic political things known to man.
That’s when you realize, “Heck, they
really are good actors! I never knew they wee THAT stupid!
Oh well, at least Oprah Winfrey is still with us.
I hope.
Make sure you tune in
every Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. for my talk radio show, ''Make It Happen''
on Power 750 WAUG-AM, or online at www.myWAUG.com. And read more about my thoughts and opinions
exclusively at my new blog, ‘The Cash Roc” (http://thecashroc.blogspot.com/2011/01/cash-roc-begins.html). I promise it will be interesting.
Cash in the Apple -
honored as the Best Column Writing of 2006 by the National Newspaper Publishers
Association. Columnist Cash Michaels was also honored by the NNPA for Best
Feature Story Journalist of 2009, and was the recipient of the Raleigh-Apex
NAACP’s President’s Award for Media Excellence in Sept. 2011.
Until next week, keep
a smile on your face, GOD in your heart, and The Carolinian in your life. Bye,
bye.
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DONNA BRAZILE
EXCLUSIVE
BRAZILE BLASTS GOP FOR FALSEHOODS, ‘OBSTACLES’
By Cash Michaels
By Cash Michaels
Editor
Saying
that, “I’m an American, that’s my true identity,” Democratic strategist and
political pundit Donna Brazile says since President Barack Obama took office
almost four years ago, she has been “really shocked” that the Republicans “have
not put aside their partisanship [and]…personal animosity towards President
Obama…” when the nation needed both the White House and Congress to work
together to solve problems.
In
an exclusive interview with the Power 750 WAUG-AM program “Make It Happen” last
week, on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, Brazile,
who is a political commentator for both ABC News and Cable News Network (CNN),
as well as a Democratic National Committee official, charged that, “…rather
than work with Pres. Obama, the Republicans have put up obstacles every step of
the way.”
One
of those “obstacles” is misleading the nation about the president’s
accomplishments.
“I’ve
never seen this kind of political obstruction in my entire life, and I’ve been
in Washington, DC now for 31 years. They put up roadblocks. They won’t work
with him. They will not meet him halfway. They’ll walk in the room and say,
“Mr. President, we’re sorry, we’re giving an inch. You give up everything;
we’re not giving you anything.”
Brazile
continued, “They’ve put this country on a path to almost defaulting on our
obligations, and yet after [the Republicans] struck a deal, now they want to go
back on their word…”
Brazile
added that, “...the modern Republican Party wants to paint the worst picture
possible of President Obama,” saying that they have done everything they could
to disrespect the first black president of the United States.
Donna
Brazile’s remarks echo those of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, who
also told “Make It Happen” that the Republicans have been “disloyal” to the
nation by vowing to stop President Obama.
“They
met on the night that he was sworn-in, and took a blood oath to each other that
they would be obstacles to [Obama’s] administration,” Clyburn maintained. “And
they set out to do so in a way that demonstrates the ultimate in disloyalty to
the country.”
“
The loyal opposition has been anything but loyal,” Rep. Clyburn continued. “We
expect for them to be in opposition to [Obama’s] policies, but we would hope
that they would be loyal to the country. They have made it very clear, that the
only reason for their existence... their number one reason…is to make sure that
Barack Obama is a one-term president.”
“No
African-American is supposed to have the capacity, least more the capability,
of being president of the United States,” Rep. Clyburn added. “There are people
who actually feel that way.”
Working for
both ABC News and CNN during the Republican National Convention last week,
Brazile listened, with interest, as speaker after speaker misrepresented
President Obama and his record in office in the lead-up to GOP nominee Mitt
Romney’s acceptance speech.
Brazile
acknowledges that the president’s record isn’t perfect, but some of the
misrepresentations from several high-profiled GOP speakers went too far.
Former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s stated accusation that President Obama
“leads from behind,” for instance.
“I
strongly dispute [that] because Pres. Obama has re-established America’s
position in the world by essentially working with our allies, working in
concert with other nations,” Brazile, who knows Dr. Rice, said.
“We’ve
[gotten] three trade agreements. We’re finally out of Iraq. Al-Queda is
weakened and [Osama] bin Laden is dead. We have a responsible position for
bringing home our men and women from Afghanistan over the next two years. But
you know, that’s the political rhetoric and jargon you hear [from the
Republicans about the president],” Brazile continued.
However, “What
really shocked me,” the veteran pundit said, “was [Romney vice presidential
candidate] Paul Ryan’s speech. [His] speech was filled with so many misleading
statements that I just sat there at ABC last night and shook my head.
“How could you
write a speech with so many misleading statements?”
As others in the major media
have noted, Ryan’s “factual errors” ranged from accusing Obama of promising to
save a General Motors plant in Wisconsin that closed before he was elected (a
check of Obama’s remarks during a visit there prove he never promised to save
the plant, only suggesting that help from the government could); to the false
allegation that the Obama administration has removed the work requirement from
state-run federally funded welfare program (several states requested program
flexibility, but the work requirement still exists).
Lots
of “misleading statements” from Ryan,” Brazile said, and lots of promises, like
12 million new jobs over the next four years from Romney, but no real solutions
to the nation’s problems.
Brazile
says Pres. Obama worked quickly, after taking office, to head off a deep
recession, and saved the from economic collapse, with no help from the
Republicans in Congress, who had vowed from the day he was inaugurated not to
work with the president, or allow him any victories.
“Rather
than sit down to complain, Pres. Obama got up and went to work every day to
turn things around,” Brazile said. “And that’s what [Democrats] are doing,
turning things around.”
“We’re
on a path of growth, we’re on a path of opportunity for all Americans, and the
way to do that, the way forward, is by investing in the American people,
investing in education and innovation, investing in technology.”
Brazile
went on to say that Pres. Obama has created 4 million jobs since taking office,
and has had positive job growth, to varying degrees, for 29 straight months.
She acknowledges it’s “not enough” to replace the millions of jobs lost during
the Bush Administration, but it’s better than “…the 22,000 jobs a day we were
hemorrhaging under George Bush and [former Vice President] Dick Cheney.”
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