Here is the full audio from Senator Barack Obama's fundraiser hosted at a home in Pacific Heights in San Francisco on Sunday, April 6, 2008. Sheila Jackson Lee makes the introduction.
Some highlights - Obama responds to Krugman toward the end of the audio (46:20); Obama discloses his trip to Pakistan (40:17); Obama discusses fundraising successes (15 min); Obama discusses energy, fuel efficient cars (18 min); "When people tell me they've all stressed about racial discord, well, you know, try slavery for a while." (26:02).
Some of the quotes from this speech include:
"I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on. I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain."
"It's ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be Commander-in-Chief. Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world. This I know. When Senator Clinton brags 'I've met leaders from eighty countries'--I know what those trips are like! I've been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There's a group of children who do native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then--you go."
"You do that in eighty countries--you don't know those eighty countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa--knowing the leaders is not important--what I know is the people. . . ."
"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."
"Nobody is entirely prepared for being Commander-in-Chief. The question is when the 3 AM phone call comes do you have somebody who has the judgment, the temperament to ask the right questions, to weigh the costs and benefits of military action, who insists on good intelligence, who is not going to be swayed by the short-term politics. By most criteria, I've passed those tests and my two opponents have not."
"People are misunderstanding the way the demographics in this contest are broken up the way they are. Because everybody just ascribes it to white working class don't want to vote for the black guy. There were intimations of this in an article in the Sunday New York Times today--kind of implies it's sort of a race thing. That's not what it is."
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
I reported on parts of his speech in "Obama: No Need For Foreign Policy Help From V.P." (4/7/08), "Obama Courts Working Class Through 'Future Generations''" (4/10/08), and "Obama: No Surprise That Hard-Pressed Pennsylvanians Turn Bitter" (4/11/08).
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-Fowler pretended to be a "donor" to sneak into a private function which was off the record
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-Fowler's husband is a weallthy energy/rea
-Fowler attended Wesley with Hillary
-Fowler's Junehill blog was anti-Obama and pro-Clinto
-Fowler's column was smearing Obama week after week: "cocky" "flirting"
This is not the "full" conversati
Mayhill Folwer....
As a blessing, most of the voters in every state know Senator Obama and ignored that article and snipet of his actual words. What makes me mad is that MSNBC & CNN spent 4 days talking about that crap! They jump onto any negative bandwagon about Obama and ride it until everyone is sick and tired of it. They think if they spin it enough, it will force us to believe that it is true.
Unfortunat
I am so glad Mr. Coleman stepped forward and wish he would go on MSNBC and CNN (FOX doesnt matter) and make these statements and tell the full truth.
SHAME, SHAME, SHAME upon you for generation
Something is wrong with a person who first of all, would betray a confidence (the affair was supposed to be private, and so 'off the record'), and do intentiona
As the wife of attorney James C. Fowler (a UCSB undergrad; UC Berkley J.D. circa 1968), a Mc Cain supporter and boat lover who owns a 43 foot yacht via some kind of revokable trust he establishe
MORE SHAME--You brought our best hope down.
First, I do not believe that you support Obama. If you did than you would not have posted this land mine. I had to dig throughout this website to get the Total Statement in Context and I do Agree with what he is saying. I cannot believe that you thought that the News Media would not Report this in a Positive Way. You should have known that they would Make it as Negative as Possible, select only the words that would convey the most Negative Image possible in an effort to Sway Voters Opinion to Hillary.
Secondly, Hillary Clinton and John McCain who are Multi-Mill
We need HELP fixing this REAL problem in Upstate NY and throughout the Country. Obama is not an "Elitist". Obama is the poorest Elitist that I know, i.e., Hillary with her $100+ millions household income and McCain with his Multi-mill
Hillary promised 200,000+ jobs as each of her Campaign Promises and Have Failed to Delivered. Instead of Focusing on Revitalizi
Upstate New Yorkers are Bitter and Antipathy against Outsourcin
Outsoucing Destroys families by losing jobs, homes and the ability to support your Families. Why Should Americans have to be the ones without JOBS... Of course, Hillary with her $100m dollar household income has demonstrat
Now this is something I can agree with.
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Tsk Tsk
If you feel that bad then go over and help them. But your assumption of the US allowing this to happen is totally ignorant.
There are people who live in those countries and if it is a problem then maybe they should stand and fight for “their country”, because it is not our fight!
If this was going on here then I would think that would a problem
I personally think that when a person runs for Political Office its hard to believe that anythingth
and insist it be used in full context?. I don't know if you have the time to respond to these questions
with all thats going on before the 22nd, but certainly would appreciate anything you can do to resolve these questions.
PEACE
John
This article states that the introducti
The Clintons have gone from respected politician
How many other folks remember the moment when you realized you wanted a woman for president, but you just couldn't ignore HRC's lies and constant double talk?
If she can't run a campaign (without resorting to playground politics), then how can she run a country? I really want to know how anyone can believe she could manage the United States when she has had so much trouble with her campaign? I really would like someone who supports HRC to explain it to me.
Well said. Fowler betrayed Obama with off the record remarks. She's a sneak.
Go check her previous articles. She labels Obama "cocky" every week!
A real dishonest character. She apparently gave money to Fred Thomspon's campaign.
I gather most people who have heard about it, agrees with his sentiment, so good for him.
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A politican looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation
Upstate New Yorkers are "Bitter". Hillary Clinton Promised upstate NY, which includes Rochester, that she would deliver 200,000+ jobs over the pass 6 years and have not. We have and still is losing homes, industries