Obama: "I will win"

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from Ben Smith's blog: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080818/pl_politico/19381




"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so," Obama told the crowd at a California fundraiser. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. This is not working."

“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple," he said.

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept," he said.

“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300.

Things could get ugly in the coming weeks, he warned.

“They’ve got a whole machinery that they’re cranking out,” Obama continued. “They’ve got a book about me, that just kind of sprung full bore out of this guy’s head.”

“John McCain, all he wants to do is talk about me. They know they can’t win on the issues. So what they’ll do is they’ll try to scare people. He’s risky. He’s risky. We’re not sure.”

It’s an old playbook, he continued, but Obama said, it’s not going to work this time. “Not only do you have a candidate who doesn’t take any guff. Not only do you have a candidate who will hit back swiftly and forcefully and truthfully.But you’ve also got American people who are rising up all over the country and saying, enough is enough.”


more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080818/pl_politico/19381

[Phoonzang]

1. Well it's nice that he says that but.... n/t

[blm]

2. What you have Obama, is a Bush machine not operating against you with the full power they used to

have. "This time" Barack, you aren't faced with most of the best known Dems in the party supporting Bush the way they did for the four years after 9-11, and publicly displaying it in front of TV cameras at every opportunity.

"This time" Barack, you have Democrats willing to back you up because the Bush machine they feared crossing in 2004 has been weakened to the point that ANY Democrat should be able to win.

[leftchick]

5. yes but

those same democrats refuse to address election theft, so I really do not expect anything to change.

:(

[blm]

6. a big reason the votes get stolen is because the Dems had no muscles in those states

and that has changed for the better since Dean became chair of the party and the Clinton loyalists who let the party infrastructure collapse in the first place have been finally pushed aside.

You're right, though, there is still a chance for this election to be stolen, too.

[leftchick]

7. according to RFK Jr. and Greg Palast

it is already a done deal.

[blm]

8. If there is a theft it will occur in a state like Pennsylvania where a Dem governor and SOS didn't

give a shit about GOP election fraud and have not lifted a finger to stop it.

[leftchick]

11. it happened in Georgia in 2002

I still can't believe Max Cleland never contested that fraud.

[blm]

16. Because DNC's failures after 2000 assured that there'd be no evidence for him to access.

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[blues90]

13. exactly !

[ailsagirl]

15. Sadly, nor do I... nt

[madokie]

3. And this is how he will win

“Not only do you have a candidate who doesn’t take any guff. Not only do you have a candidate who will hit back swiftly and forcefully and truthfully.But you’ve also got American people who are rising up all over the country and saying, enough is enough.”

[bigtree]

4. fighting the smears

http://www.fightthesmears.com

[PermanentRevolution]

9. I like the casual Shakespeare reference...

It'll be nice to have a president whose literary references are above a first-grade reading level.

[ailsagirl]

17. God-- a literate candidate with tremendous dignity & presence

It's been a long, long time since I've seen that...

[Heidi]

10. Kick.

:kick:

[mvd]

12. Yes he will!

:bounce:

[bigtree]

14. we

will