President Obama told a campaign event at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. — the same place where Mitt Romney kicked off his first presidential campaign in 2007 — that this presidential campaign “is and should be about values.”
“Hard work — that’s a value,” he told about 600 people who paid at least $250 each. “Looking out for one another — that’s a value. The idea that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that’s a value. That I have a commitment larger than myself.”
Introduced by a UAW electrician for Chrysler, Obama took plenty of time to laud the auto bailout, along with the standard campaign lines about the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act and ending “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
“The American story has never been about just what we do on our own,” the president said. “We don’t win the race for new jobs and new businesses and security and growth if it’s just you’re-on-your-own economics.”
“…We’ve all got a stake in each other’s success.”
At one point an audience member yelled out, “We love you, Obama!”
“I love you, baby,” Obama responded. “Thank you.”
“We love you more!” the person shouted, drawing laughter.
“Campaign should be about values”.Oh, that´s very amusing coming from him.I am sure he doesn´t want it to be about the economy or the unemployment. So Mitt Romney, you know what to say ! Just stick a needle in Obamas balloon.
“Campaign should be about values”? How does one without values say this with a straight face?
He values his power.
– ative statement from someone only spends about a day a week in the Oval Office.
Because nothing says “we look out for you” better than a crappy, poorly-built American auto with a rattle in the door caused by a union worker (somehow making more than a PhD) who didn’t care about anything that particular day but the time he could go home–but who thinks you are unpatriotic if you buy a higher quality design from overseas.
There is a reason Detroit collapsed over the last few decades, and it had something to do with a lot of folks–who are incidentally a core Democratic constituency–not looking out for anybody’s values or interests but their own…
I mean, when this man says to a crowd surely heavily peppered with UAW members that it’s all about “values” and “committment to something larger than one’s self” and being “our brother’s keepers”, and then one thinks about some of the Detroit products over the years (esp. GM), then, well, it’s hard to not think of the saying “nothing says ‘I love you’ better than dead flowers”….
Detroit–when you care enough to send the very worst….
It’s got to be about values, ’cause God-forbid it should have anything to do with accomplishments.
Sure, this campaign should be about values: the value of my home has gone down (along with millions of other folks), the value of my 401K has gone down, the value of our dollars to buy commodities like oil and food has gone down.
But unemployment is up and my tax bill is up, so I’m much more my brother’s keeper than I was 4 years ago.
Great job, Barry!