VIDEO ADDED: Hussein Fear-Mongers Seniors Over Social Security
Obama warns seniors on Social Security -
GRESHAM, Ore. - Hours before being greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign, Democrat Barack Obama quietly told a small group of seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security they depend on because he supports privatizing the program.
Fire officials estimated 65,000 packed into a riverside park for a spectacular afternoon rally at a sun-splashed scene on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland. They said an additional 15,000 were left outside and dozens of boaters could be seen floating in the river.
“Wow, wow, wow,” Obama said as he surveyed the audience. “We have had a lot of rallies. This is the most spectacular setting, the most spectacular crowd we have had this entire campaign.”
While more subdued, his apprearance early in the day before about 130 people at an assisted living facility to talk Social Security was a significant attempt to tie the GOP’s presidential nominee-in-waiting to an unpopular President Bush on a pocket book issue that motivates seniors—and also concerns younger generations worried about their own future retirement.
“Let me be clear, privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it, it’s a bad idea today,” Obama said. “That’s why I stood up against this plan in the Senate and that’s why I won’t stand for it as president.”
Bush proposed a Social Security plan in 2005 that focused on creating private accounts for younger workers, but it never came up for a vote in Congress. Democrats strongly opposed the idea and few Republicans embraced it.
Obama said McCain would push to raise the retirement age for collecting Social Security benefits or trim annual cost-of-living increases. Obama has rejected both ideas as solutions to the funding crisis projected for Social Security in favor of making higher-income workers pay more into the system.
“We have to protect Social Security for future generations without pushing the burden onto seniors who have earned the right to retire in dignity,” he said.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds accused Obama of making “misinformed partisan attacks.”
“John McCain has been clear about his belief that we must fix Social Security for future generations and keep our promises to today’s retirees, but raising taxes should not be the answer to every problem,” Bound said.
It was a day of coastal campaigning for the two Democrats still competing for the party’s presidential nomination.
Obama was in Oregon, where he is favored to win the state’s presidential primary on Tuesday. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a second straight day in Kentucky, where she is favored to win when its voters head to the polls the same day.
She attended worship services at a Methodist church in Bowling Green, and happily sang hymns and joined in Bible readings. But her smile faded when the pastor launched into a sermon about adultery, asking his congregants whether the devil had ever whispered over their shoulders in their marriages.
Her mood appeared to brighten by the time she arrived for a rally at Western Kentucky University.
“Now, my opponent said the other day he wasn’t coming back, so I’ve got the whole state to myself,” Clinton said, sounding happy not to be sharing the Kentucky spotlight. “What a treat.”
Obama, the front-runner for the nomination, has begun casting himself as the inevitable nominee and using his time to distinguish himself from McCain as he pivots toward the fall campaign. He has scheduled appearances later this week in Iowa and Florida, two key swing states.
He underscored that speaking with reporters in the Portland suburb of Milwaukie, saying he’ll use the Iowa visit as another way to focus on November.
“We thought it was a terrific way to kind of bring things full circle,” said Obama. “We still have some contests left but if Kentucky and Oregon go as we hope, then we think we will have a majority of pledged delegates at that point and that’s a pretty significant mark, that means that after contests in every state, or almost every state and the territories, that we have received a majority of the delegates that are assigned by voters.”
He declined to declare victory.
“It doesn’t mean we’ve declared victory because I won’t be the nominee until we have a combination of both pledged delegates and super delegates to hit the mark,” said Obama. “What it does mean is the voters have given us a majority of delegates. Obviously that’s what this primary and caucus process is all about.”
During the meeting with seniors, Obama was asked why McCain seems to have avoided the enormous press scrutiny the Democrats have gotten.
Obama said McCain has benefited from a Republican nomination process that ended early while the Democratic race continues. He said the attention both candidates receive will grow more intense as the race settles into an Obama-McCain contest.
“It’s very understandable that the press has focused on myself and Senator Clinton because it’s been a pretty exciting race,” Obama said. “The fact is that the press will submit him to the same scrutiny they are giving to me.”
“People will lift the hood and kick the tires with John McCain, just like they do with me,” he said, who traveled Sunday with his wife, Michelle.
(AP)
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80,000 bobble-headed lemmings. There hasn’t been a pack of rubes this large since the ‘million’ man march.
Jump! Jump!
May 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pmI refuse to believe that he drew a crowd that large, even in the USRO (Union of Socialists Republic of Oregon)
This has to be some faked-up crap that the leftist news media has conjured up.
If it’s not, then someone bussed in a shit-load of californians, and probably fed them granola bars and evian water for lunch.
Either way, it’s pure horse shit!
May 18th, 2008 at 7:24 pmThey called in how many dhimmies to change a light bulb?
May 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pmLike a Hitler rally
May 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pmall heil Obama. man this is sad that he can pull in this many people. doesnt say anything good about a large number of our population
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:arrow:mike3481…Oh really…well how about this…FUCK YOU, YOU COCKSUCKING CLOSET MUSLIM!
Don’t you dare tell America how to live their life.
Read the U.S. Constitution for the first time in your elitist, narcissistic life, you cocksucking, crack smoking and dealing piece of shit homosexual FUCK!
We’ve got your number and we’re going to destroy you with nothing but public information.
…don’t worry Hussein, you’ll live a very long life in perfect health…and in complete misery…because the truth about you was exposed.
“YOU CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL”
PS - JW
May 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pmIt’s Oregon, they actually shit on the U.S. flag out there.
I have a photo of it, I’m NOT joking.
FUCKING PIGS!
May 18th, 2008 at 9:00 pmPlease don’t post the photo.
I don’t want to by a new LCD screen
May 18th, 2008 at 9:10 pmrepost…corrected
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:arrow:mike3481…Oh really…well how about this…FUCK YOU, YOU COCKSUCKING CLOSET MUSLIM!
Don’t you dare tell America how to live their life.
Read the U.S. Constitution for the first time in your elitist, narcissistic life, you cocksucking, crack smoking and dealing piece of shit homosexual FUCK!
We’ve got your number and we’re going to destroy you with nothing but public information.
…don’t worry Hussein, you’ll live a very long life in perfect health…and in complete misery…because the truth about you was exposed.
“YOU CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL”
PS - JW
May 18th, 2008 at 9:12 pmChemaniacs in the thousands.. I wonder, was Hussein wearing his prized red star/hammer+sickle lapel pin today??
May 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pmOh, and they also burn U.S. troops in effigy there. They need to be machine gunned.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=117459283544877600
Photos (this will make you VERY angry!):
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/bbpgtr/traitors/?action=view¤t=n65201211_30340983_2732.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/bbpgtr/traitors/TroopFlagBurning.jpg?t=1211175864
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/bbpgtr/traitors/protesterpoopsonAmericanFlagGI.jpg?t=1211175906
May 18th, 2008 at 9:45 pmJust watched the video…
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
May 18th, 2008 at 9:46 pmJust watched the video too.
It’s really weird how happy the reporters seemed to be, isn’t it?
May 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pmGood call
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mike3481, The more I think about Hussein’s speech the more it offends me.. such as, Hussein suggests he’s going to determine how we live our lives…according to what’s O.K. with other countries.
Which countries?
The 66% of UN member Nations that are controlled by Dictators, Thugs and Tyrants?
Hussein your ship is sinking and you don’t have a clue.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:24 pmJohn Kerry drew about the same size crowd in Portland Or just before he lost the general election in 2004. I think Portland Or is turning into a second San Francisco.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pmYour Portland Tribune link more than suggests (to me anyways) that the crowd at Hussein’s rally in Portland on Sunday, was nothing more than the tail end of an anti-war protest march.
I went to Drudge, et,al and I don’t see a single pic with more than 10k much less 15 thousand or more idiots.
Kudos Bob
May 18th, 2008 at 10:42 pmLots of talk of “Million Man Math” being used here….
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017910/posts
Interesting different photos there too…
May 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9If any man have an ear, let him hear.
Holy Shit. Obama’s the anti-Christ. Two examples off the top of my mind. 1-” and saw a beast rise up out of the sea”–I’ve learned through 4 years of Catholic education that this is a metaphorical statement. Rather than actually rising from a literal sea the Anti-Christ will rise out of the sea of politics. 2-”And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, ” Anyone remember Obama’s Church and the declaration that they have to KILL GOD?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:10 amRe: ‘We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK’…
That is one of the scariest things to yet come from the hussein.
For all you young ones out there,
Jimmy Carter’s response to the energy crisis was to tell Americans to turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater.
Now the same shit is being spewed from the hussein. Only this time I think that bastard hussein wants us to lower our standard of living to a global level. I think that ‘57 stater’ wants to have a global redistribution of wealth. You think it’s bad enough to have these robin hood policies that redistribute wealth within our nation, imagine it globally.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:13 am75,000 in Portland, that’s all?
It should have 100,000 or better for such an elite leftist like Obama.
May 19th, 2008 at 3:31 amtest post
May 19th, 2008 at 3:40 amThe coastal areas of OR and WA are chock-a-block with leftist kool-aid drinkers. I’ll bet there were lots of WA plates in town that day.
Face it, Obama will not win the presidency unless they can come up with something really juicy about McCain.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:08 amGood Lord, I hope McCain can stop him. No more fence sitting for me, or 3rd party vote either. I will support McCain 100& now. I have thought for quite awhile now, that Obamalamadingdong is the Anti-Christ. Hope the coming Great Monarch arrives soon.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:00 am“Anyone remember Obama’s Church and the declaration that they have to KILL GOD?”
Read Black Liberation Theology. They kill the ‘white man’s God’ by killing the white man. Much like the Muzzies plan to kill the Jewish God by killing the Jews. It’s no mistake that Islam is the ‘alternate’ religion for much of black Amerikkka. It teaches the love of death.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:26 amRead up on your James Cone and Farrakhan folks. Obambi is ‘their’ Messiah. Not the white elite leftist half-wits of Portland, San Fran, etc.
This is sickening. I’m a 61 year old lifelong Portlander and I’m thoroughly disgusted as I’ve witnessed my city’s decade by decade inexorable slide deeper into the morass that is Liberal “Utopia”. As soon as circumstances permit, I’m out of this shit hole.
Here’s a little piece of trivia that I’m sure not one of those 75,000 bed wetting, lotus eaters in that photo would know or give a shit about. Notice that nice, neat contour in the riverbank? That was cut there to accommodate berthing for the Battleship Oregon, which the once-good citizens of Portland had acquired and intended to turn into a museum. The Oregon was called “McKinley’s Bulldog” and gained fame when it made a dash around the horn of South America to help blow the shit out of the gazpacho guzzling Spaniards’ fleet at Santiago Bay, Cuba. The museum wasn’t to be though. In a bit of patriotic fervor the ship was donated to the war effort in the 40’s. Sadly, after dismantling had begun, it was realized the scrap metal wasn’t all that necessary for the cause and this proud symbol of America’s emerging power was lost. It’s probably just as well. I’d hate to see what they’d do to it today. It’d be a homeless shelter or abortion clinic, I suspect.
By the way, if anyone’s got a spare JDAM, the coordinates for that crowd of losers is 45°30′45.38″N 122°40′27.00″W. I realize the event happened a couple of days ago, but since they don’t have anything better to do, I’m sure there’s a goodly bunch of them still milling around soaking up the lingering vibes from their moment with The Messiah.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:38 amA PS to my above comment: The mob in the photo is now desecrating the very ground where a lumber mill and a brewery (Lucky Lager) once proudly stood and the buildings in the background occupy the site where liberty ships were built during WWII.
The Portland that was. *sigh*
May 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am