Obama in Missouri, Ripping McCain on Economy

Always fun to see him on the attack (though the best quotes are not in this video clip:



Here is some of what he said:

My opponent believes we’re on the right track. He’s said our economy has made great progress these past eight years. He’s embraced the Bush economic policies and promises to continue them.

Senator McCain wants to debate taxes, I'm ready. I just was just reading that Wild Bill Hickock had his first duel right here in Springfield, MO. Family legend is that Wild Bill is a distant relative of mine (I'm serious). I don't know if it's true, but it's the legend. I think it's true because I'm ready to duel John McCain on taxes right here.

You can't tell me we can spend $10-12 billion a month in Iraq, but we can't invest some of that money right here in the United States of America. That’s what we can do in this election. The choice is ours.

Where was George Bush for the last eight years? For that matter, where has John McCain been for the last 25? Now there idea is drill for more oil...I know it's tempting, but it's not real.

Nobody thinks John McCain has a new idea on how to fix our country's problem. All they've been doing, every ad has been attacking me.

Not one person thinks he has any new ideas, so they're trying to make me risky. "He's not patriotic."

We don't have much to offer, but "he's risky." I know you don't really like what we're doing, but "he's risky." That's their argument.

It's true that change is hard. Change isn't easy. And the question you have to ask yourself is, what's more risky? Bringing about changes you know we need to make, or doing the same thing over and over and over again even though we know they won't work.

We are in a time where it is risky NOT to change.