(politicsdaily).President Obama spent Sunday trying to convince New Jersey voters that a vote for Jon Corzine, their less-than-popular Democratic governor, was a vote for him. An afternoon event at the Prudential Center in downtown Newark drew over 10,000 mostly black voters, who took up chants of "Yes We Can!" and booed mentions of former president George W. Bush as if they were back on the 2008 campaign trail.
....Obama seemed to feel that he was among friends, and joined in the sharply partisan tone of the rally. Both Corzine and Weinberg had blamed the economic crisis on the "trickle-down economics" of the Bush years, and Obama picked up where they left off. He implied that Corzine's unpopularity stemmed from the difficult choices he has had to make in dealing with the "worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
"That didn't start on Jon Corzine's watch, and it didn't start on my watch," the president said. "I'm not interested in relitigating the past. We're willing to clean up after somebody else's mess. But if I'm holding the mop, if Jon Corzine is holding the mop, the least the other guy can do is not tell us we're holding the mop wrong, not mopping fast enough, or say we're using a socialist mop."
"This crisis that we are getting ourselves out of came about of because of the same theories, the same lax regulation, the same trickle-down economics, that the other guy's party has been peddling for years," Obama said.
....Obama seemed to feel that he was among friends, and joined in the sharply partisan tone of the rally. Both Corzine and Weinberg had blamed the economic crisis on the "trickle-down economics" of the Bush years, and Obama picked up where they left off. He implied that Corzine's unpopularity stemmed from the difficult choices he has had to make in dealing with the "worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
"That didn't start on Jon Corzine's watch, and it didn't start on my watch," the president said. "I'm not interested in relitigating the past. We're willing to clean up after somebody else's mess. But if I'm holding the mop, if Jon Corzine is holding the mop, the least the other guy can do is not tell us we're holding the mop wrong, not mopping fast enough, or say we're using a socialist mop."
"This crisis that we are getting ourselves out of came about of because of the same theories, the same lax regulation, the same trickle-down economics, that the other guy's party has been peddling for years," Obama said.
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