Obama on bipartisanship:
RUSH: He said, "Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled the economy out, and now the progress has been made, Obama said, 'We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle-class families up front in the car. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in the back.'" Now, imagine if I were to say that about Obama and the Democrats joining the Republicans.
Obama to Latinos
RUSH: Okay, we're back. Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution. I want to go back to our first caller and play the audio sound bite from Obama that he was talking about yesterday morning on a syndicated radio show. He received the question, "Mr. President, you were able to pass a health care plan, and you worked a lot for that. Many of my listeners, they haven't seen that the same way you worked for health care for immigration reform. They haven't seen the same effort."
OBAMA: I am president. I'm not king. I can't do these things just by myself. If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying we're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's going to be harder, and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.
More from Obama to Latinos
OBAMA: Well, I'm disappointed, too. Many Republicans who used to support comprehensive immigration reform, like John McCain, decided not to support it. The problem that we have is that until I can get some cooperation from the other side, then people who are anti-immigration reform can continue to block it. And that's why this election coming up is so important because we essentially have to say that those who are politicizing the issue, who are supportive of the Arizona law, who talk only about border security but aren't willing to talk about the other aspects of this, who don't support the DREAM Act, who are out there engaging in rhetoric that is divisive and damaging, those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.
and something Obama said that Rush didn't mention today (or at least, not that I heard him do):
http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/10/obama-speaks-at-chace-house-sk.html
Obama was at a $7,500 a plate fund-raiser in Rhode Island
Mr. Obama spoke for around 20 minutes, touching some of the same points he had made during his earlier visit to the factory in Woonsocket:
* On the economy: The unemployment rate might be 12 or 13 percent today had it not been for administration policies.
* On the mood of the electorate: "It's not surprising that the country is angry and the country is frustrated."
* On GOP strategy: It's "to try to ride that anger for as long as possible."
* On the administration's accomplishment's accomplishments; "I could not be prouder" of a record that includes the largest spending on infrastructure since the Eisenhower administration, the largest increase in national service since the Peace Corps and Wall Street reform.
Mr. Obama concluded his remarks at about 7:30, saying he couldn't stay for dinner.
"I've got to go home to tuck in the girls and walk the dog and scoop the poop," he said.
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