A partial transcript of the video Bob posted below:
Half a tank of gas. That’s [John McCain's] big solution…this is at the same time he is proposing hundreds of millions of dollars of more tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest Americans…that’s typical of how Washington works, there’s a problem, everybody’s upset about gas prices, let’s find some short-term, quick fix so that we can say we did something, even though we’re not really doing anything…and then we pretend like we did something. So I’m here to tell you the truth. We could suspend the gas taxes for six months, but that’s not going to bring down gas prices long term…we have to go after the oil prices and look at their price gouging, we’ve got to go after windfall profits…and we have to stop using less oil, that means raising fuel efficiency standards on cars, and developing alternative fuels, that’s the real honest answer to how we’re gonna solve this problem, that’s what you need from a president, someone who’s gonna tell you the truth, who’s gonna tell you not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear.
I’ve typed this all up because I want you guys to read it, to copy and paste it and send it to friends. Make sure everyone you know reads Barack’s words, because he’s telling a truth that’s too “complex” for the media to cover.
Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter how long Jeremiah Wright talked yesterday; it doesn’t matter how much the media paints the Obama campaign as “on the ropes” or “embattled”; it doesn’t matter that the media/Hillary/McCain/the GOP continue to paint the race as “in play” or Texas as a “win” for Hillary or over half the states as “unimportant.” The reality is, Obama is winning. And he’s winning because he simply refuses to play the lying, cheating, attacking bullshit Washington game.
I just got back from a couple of days in Appalachia, the area where Obama does worse than anywhere. There’s a reason he does poorly there: racism is profound. I know: most of my family is from there. And many of them are either overtly racist or quietly so. But at the family gathering I attended, I had three women, all of whom are over the age of 65, all of whom I would describe as conservative, all of whom voted at least once for Bush, seek ME out and tell me they are voting for Obama. One of them lives in Indiana. This is anecdotal, of course, but the point is, they’re paying for gas. They’re living on fixed incomes. They have family and friends in Iraq (again). They want the same thing the majority of Democratic voters want: change they can believe in.
