{"id":3934,"date":"2008-11-02T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/clark-asks-obama-supporters-to-help-get-out-the-vote\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T04:36:00","slug":"clark-asks-obama-supporters-to-help-get-out-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/clark-asks-obama-supporters-to-help-get-out-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark asks Obama supporters to help get out the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Democratic presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark<\/a> urged a group of about 100 supporters of Barack Obama<\/a> at a rally today in Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> to help convince people to vote on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t trust the polls, and there\u2019s no room for complacency,\u201d Clark<\/st1:place> said. \u201c\u2026 In good elections in this country, 60 to 65 percent of Americans vote. Can\u2019t we do better than that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clark, speaking at a VFW post on the city\u2019s East Mesa<\/st1:place>, hardly mentioned Obama\u2019s opponent, John McCain<\/a>, but was highly critical of the Bush Administration during his speech in arguing that Obama will bring change.<\/p>\n

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During Bush\u2019s presidency, Clark<\/st1:place> said, a pattern has emerged: Warnings of a coming disaster are ignored, a disaster strikes, the federal government is slow to respond, and, at the end of Bush\u2019s term, the disaster lingers. He said there have been four such catastrophes: the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the war in Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Hurricane Katrina and the current economic collapse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEight years. Four problems. Enough is enough,\u201d Clark<\/st1:place> told the enthusiastic group. \u201cBarack Obama is going to bring us some new ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The rally wasn\u2019t designed to convince undecided voters. Clark<\/st1:place> asked who among those in attendance had already voted, and just about everyone raised their hands. But Clark<\/st1:place> asked those people to take on another mission. He asked them to talk to their friends and family members about voting for Obama, and he asked them to call Obama\u2019s campaign and volunteer to make phone calls and help out in other ways.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m here to ask you, in these last hours, as this election closes, that you be part of the change,\u201d Clark<\/st1:place> said. \u201c\u2026 We\u2019ve got to get out the vote. You know, elections are decided on turnout, on effort, on passion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clark urged people to support the entire slate of Democratic candidates appearing on the ballot on the East Mesa, and specifically mentioned state Reps. Nate Cote<\/a> and Jeff Steinborn<\/a> and state Senate candidate Steve Fischmann<\/a>, who each spoke to the group before Clark<\/st1:place> took the stage.<\/p>\n

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Clark<\/st1:place> spoke about two issues: the economy and taking care of veterans. He said the era of trickle-down economics is over and it\u2019s time \u201cfor government to lead.\u201d Obama, he said, has the vision to make that happen and the ability to \u201cpull America<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> back together again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And he cited Obama\u2019s statement that the government has \u201ca sacred trust\u201d with its veterans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe need to live up to that,\u201d Clark<\/st1:place> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Democratic presidential candidate and retired Gen. Wesley Clark urged a group of about 100 supporters of Barack Obama at a rally today in Las Cruces to help convince people to vote on Tuesday. \u201cI don\u2019t trust the polls, and there\u2019s no room for complacency,\u201d Clark said. \u201c\u2026 In good elections in this country, 60 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}