Obama: ‘We Don’t Want More Bums Coming In’
ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Paul Fidalgo Report: The sauciest moment in Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., speech to the Washington D.C. legislative-political conference of the Communications Workers of America Tuesday occurred when he rhetorically asked the crowd: "What are we going to do to change our politics?"
"Throw the bums out," shouted a member of the audience to which Obama responded: "some of the bums have been thrown out. But we don’t want more bums coming in."
Obama, who stressed his early his opposition to the Iraq war and his support for universal broadband technology, is one of three top-tier Democratic presidential candidates speaking Tuesday to the communications workers. The group, which bills itself as the "union for the Information Age," is slated to hear from former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
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I am hoping Hillary gets a tepid response. And they go for the best candidate we have. Obama.
Posted by: vwcat | March 27, 2007, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm
Obama’s best friend is Hillary. Its either gonna be Clinton-Obama or Obama-Clinton in 2008. They better learn to like each other.
Posted by: Steve Savage | March 28, 2007, 12:31 am 12:31 am
Don’t count out Edwards. He’s doing some things that the other candidates (Dems & Republicans) find foreign. He’s talking specifics and answering questions.
Posted by: TSnow | March 28, 2007, 8:50 am 8:50 am
Hillary is no one’s friend. Do not let the empty psycho bable rhetoric lead you to believe that there are anything in there.
Posted by: vwnot | March 28, 2007, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Hillary has received standing ovations from the firefighters union. Her speech at the Las Vegas Health Forum last Saturday was cited as the best and she fired up the crowds more than any of the other candidates with her highly informed, intelligent and enthusiastic comments about healthcare reform.
Hillary is also not doing badly with the unions and she may grab a huge endorsement from Stern.
Obama is a candidate running on a thin resume. His honeymoon is starting to wind down.
John Edwards can’t even get out of third place and a very low third place at that.
Posted by: Carl and Sandi Wilson | March 29, 2007, 5:42 am 5:42 am
None of them has indicated anything but continuation of the status quo. If I were a canidiate, I could cement a win right now by calling for war on government corruption, and outline the first steps in the battle, no bribery, (money lobbying)audits of all appropriations and jail for any politicians involved in misuse of said appropriations, requiring audits for five years before, every two years during, and ten years after a candidate leaves office.
I believe the American people wiuld make me president by acclaim.
Of course, I’d be shot the very next day…
Posted by: brian | March 29, 2007, 6:10 am 6:10 am