Not just the big rallies.

[blonndee]

I was just reading an MSNBC article with a headline about the huge rally today, but which included a discussion about what else Obama was up to today. The article is kind of all over the place in terms of focus (I thought) but I enjoyed reading this and it shows again that he's NOT just about all the "big rallies."



Obama draws 65,000 to Oregon rally
Big event comes on a day when he hammers McCain on Social Security

GRESHAM, Ore. - Hours before being greeted by the biggest crowd of his campaign, Democrat Barack Obama quietly told a small group of seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security they depend on because he supports privatizing the program.

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While more subdued, his apprearance early in the day before about 130 people at an assisted living facility to talk Social Security was a significant attempt to tie the GOP's presidential nominee-in-waiting to an unpopular President Bush on a pocket book issue that motivates seniors — and also concerns younger generations worried about their own future retirement.

"Let me be clear, privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it, it's a bad idea today," Obama said. "That's why I stood up against this plan in the Senate and that's why I won't stand for it as president."

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Criticizes McCain on Social Security

Obama said McCain would push to raise the retirement age for collecting Social Security benefits or trim annual cost-of-living increases. Obama has rejected both ideas as solutions to the funding crisis projected for Social Security in favor of making higher-income workers pay more into the system.

"We have to protect Social Security for future generations without pushing the burden onto seniors who have earned the right to retire in dignity," he said.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24696575/

[ruby slippers]

1. do you know that McBush already is collecting HIS social Security...I wonder

if he would raise the age for himself? Bah humbug!