{"id":2512,"date":"2008-05-23T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/transcript-of-obamas-speech-in-des-moines-iowa\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T20:57:36","slug":"transcript-of-obamas-speech-in-des-moines-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/transcript-of-obamas-speech-in-des-moines-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Des Moines, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Page – by Mark Halperin – TIME<\/a> <\/p>\n

Forging a New Future for America – Tuesday, May 20th, 2008<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

We face an opponent, John McCain, who arrived in Washington nearly three decades ago as a Vietnam War hero, and earned an admirable reputation for straight talk and occasional independence from his party. <\/p>\n

But this year\u2019s Republican primary was a contest to see which candidate could out-Bush the other, and that is the contest John McCain won.<\/strong> The Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans that once bothered Senator McCain\u2019s conscience are now his only economic policy. The Bush health care plan that only helps those who are already healthy and wealthy is now John McCain\u2019s answer to the 47 <\/em>million Americans without insurance and the millions more who can\u2019t pay their medical bills. The Bush Iraq policy that asks everything of our troops and nothing of Iraqi politicians is John McCain\u2019s policy too, and so is the fear of tough and aggressive diplomacy that has left this country more isolated and less secure than at any time in recent history. The lobbyists who ruled George Bush\u2019s Washington are now running John McCain\u2019s campaign, and they actually had the nerve to say that the American people won\u2019t care about this. Talk about out of touch!<\/strong> <\/p>\n

I will leave it up to Senator McCain to explain to the American people whether his policies and positions represent long-held convictions or Washington calculations, but the one thing they don\u2019t represent is change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Page – by Mark Halperin – TIME Forging a New Future for America – Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 We face an opponent, John McCain, who arrived in Washington nearly three decades ago as a Vietnam War hero, and earned an admirable reputation for straight talk and occasional independence from his party. But this year\u2019s … Continue reading Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Des Moines, Iowa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}