Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Obama's Speech Inspired Thousands Of Students In Wisconsin To Vote Next November

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Students says they became inspired by President Obama's speech and vowed to come out and vote in November.

By H. Nelson Goodson
September 28, 2010

Madison - President Barack H. Obama's speech was geared to inspire youths and students to come out and vote on November 2nd. Obama came to Wisconsin once again to help motivate and push for the re-election of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (WI-Dem) and to help elect Tom Barrett (Dem) for Governor of Wisconsin in November. Both Feingold and Barrett were present and spoke before Obama.
Obama's visit on Tuesday to Wisconsin makes it the sixth time he has come to the state, since he was elected in 2008. President Obama spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall after 4:45 p.m. Madison police estimated that 17,000 people filled the Library Mall to capacity and about 9,000 people lined up along the route and were later diverted to other overflow areas.
Thousands of students after the speech said, that they became inspired, motivated and will come out and vote on November.
Obama told the students in the mall, "I need you fired up, Badgers. We need you to stay fired up. Because there's an election on Nov. 2 that's going to say a lot about the future— your future and the future of our country.
Now, two years ago, you defied the conventional wisdom in Washington. The message out there was, no, you can’t. No, you can’t overcome the cynicism of our politics. No, you can’t overcome the power of special interests in Washington. No, you can’t make real progress on the big challenges of our time. No, you can’t elect a skinny guy with a funny name Barack Hussein Obama. They said, no, you can’t. But what did you say, Wisconsin?
Audience: Yes we can! ...
President Obama: And every single one of you is a shareholder in that mission of rebuilding our country and reclaiming our future. And I’m back here today because on November 2nd, we face another test. And the stakes could not be higher...
And this country was confronting a crisis. Instead, what we found when we arrived in Washington was the rawest kind of politics. What we confronted was an opposition party that was still stuck on the same failed policies of the past, whose leaders in Congress were determined from the start to let us deal with the mess that they had done so much to create.
Because their calculation was as simple as it was cynical - they knew that it was going to take a long time to solve the economic challenges we faced. They saw the data. They were talking to the economists. They realized that Obama was walking in and we had just lost 4 million jobs in the six months before I was sworn in; 750,000 jobs the month I was sworn in; 600,000 jobs the month after that; 600,000 jobs that month after that. So before our economic policies could even be put into place, we’d already lost most of the 8 million jobs we would lose.
And they knew that people would be frustrated. And they figured, if we just sit on the sidelines and just say no and just throw bombs and let Obama and the Democrats deal with everything, they figured they might be able to prosper at the polls.
And that’s what they’ve done for the last 20 months. They have said no to just about every idea and policy I’ve proposed - even ideas that historically traditionally, they agreed with. So now the pundits are saying that the base of the Republican Party is mobilized. The prediction among the pundits is this is going to be a bloodletting for Democrats. That’s what they’re saying in Washington.
Audience: Boo!
President Obama: And what they’re saying is - and the basis of their prediction is that all of you who worked so hard in 2008 aren’t going to be as energized, aren’t going to be as engaged. They say there is an enthusiasm gap and that the same Republicans and the same policies that eft our economy in a shambles and the middle class struggling might ride right back into power.
Audience: No!
President Obama: Now, that’s what they’re saying. I’m not making this up. You guys read the papers. You guys are watching the television. They’re basically saying that you’re apathetic, you’re disappointed, you’re “oh, well we’re not sure that we’re going to turn out.”
Wisconsin, we can’t let that happen. We cannot sit this one out. We can’t let this country fall backwards because the rest of us didn’t care enough to fight. The stakes are too high for our country and for your future, and I am going to get out there and fight as hard as I can - and know you are, too - to make sure we keep moving forward," President Obama said.

For President Barack H. Obama full speech at UW-Madison on Tuesday, click video at: http://bit.ly/9hn7nw

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