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Obama Addressing SEIU Convention

by davej, Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:13:51 AM EST

Barack Obama will be speaking via video to the SEIU convention today at 10:50am Eastern -- 7:50am Pacific -- or shortly after that. You can watch it by clicking here or watching below:

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Update [2008-6-4 11:17:46 by Todd Beeton]:"Our partner, our brother, the Democratic nominee and the next president of the United States, Barack Obama." The place is going absolutely nuts.

Barack: "We won because we followed what I call Stern's first principle: organize, organize and organize some more."

"What holds us together is this fundamental belief that we are all in this together. That we are our brother's keeper, we are our sister's keeper...It's the idea that's at the heart of this campaign...They call it the ownership society but what it means is 'you're on your own.'"

shorter Barack: conservatism = "tough luck, you're on your own."

Update [2008-6-4 11:21:25 by Todd Beeton]:Barack: "We can not let John McCain serve out George Bush's third term...It's not change when John McCain chose to side with George Bush 95% of the time as he did last year."

"Change is rewarding not just wealth but work and the workers who work hard every day."

Change is having a president who's worked with you on that picket line, who doesn't choke on the word 'union.'...We will finally make the Employee Free Choice Act the law of the land." The members in the hall stood up for that one.

Update [2008-6-4 11:24:28 by Todd Beeton]:The members are chanting "Si se puede!"

Update [2008-6-4 11:28:20 by davej]: "Politics didn't lead me to working folks - working folks led me to politics"

Update [2008-6-4 11:30:49 by Todd Beeton]:Wow, confetti is everywhere and U2's "Beautiful Day" is playing. Definitely a festive atmosphere in here, everyone wearing purple SEIU Obama t-shirts.

Tags: Barack Obama, SEIU (all tags)

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off topic (none / 0)

Obama just had them going wild with applause at the AIPAC conference.

Anybody's vote is worth having. But not everybody's vote is worth campaigning for.

by Freespeechzone on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:07:19 AM EST

"It's not the Department of Management." (2.00 / 3)

"It's the Department of Labor"

Nice line.

by ab03 on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:20:55 AM EST

It was very effective... (2.00 / 1)

.. how he drew the parallel of grass roots union organizing with the grass roots effort of his campaign. Three cheers for the collective bargaining power of our electorate! :)

by protothad on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:21:09 AM EST

Re: Obama Addressing SEIU Convention (2.00 / 2)

I have a feeling that June could end up being February all over again. Now Obama can talk big ideas and campaign issues because the contrast with McCain is so great. This is awesome. I haven't been this excited about the election in months.

John McCain isn't evil. He's just wrong about a lot of things. Vote Obama!

by proseandpromise on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:31:08 AM EST

Substance. (2.00 / 2)

It's great that he finally - finally! - get the opportunity to demonstrate exactly what change means. In his speech declaring victory, and in this one. You know this man knows exactly what he's campaigning for.

by Mardarkin on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:33:53 AM EST

Re: Substance. (none / 0)

All along the "change" mantra has been about change from Bush. Rhetorically he has been running a GE kind of campaign for a while I think. Now that he is actually head-to-head with the Republican he can get down to details. It didn't make sense to up against a Dem with almost the same policies. I think the "empty suit" lines will die out soon enough.

John McCain isn't evil. He's just wrong about a lot of things. Vote Obama!

by proseandpromise on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:41:23 AM EST
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Absolutely. (none / 0)

Of course this is what he meant and presented all along. But now, no longer facing a Democrat, the calls of 'empty suit' will certainly die down.

by Mardarkin on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 03:36:29 PM EST
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I hear a little John Edwards here (2.00 / 1)

and I like it:

Change is rewarding not just wealth but work and the workers who work hard every day

by TomP on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 11:35:31 AM EST

Re: Obama Addressing SEIU Convention (none / 0)

Great address.

Obama/Sebelius '08

by evantakesall on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 12:30:29 PM EST

Thanks for sharing this guys! (none / 0)

I wasn't able to watch (conf. call I was on) but appreciate your live blogging it.

Let's elect a Dem President!

by SpanishFly on Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 12:47:50 PM EST

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