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Subscribe to RSSPresident Obama speaks to supporters in Des Moines, Iowa at his final campaign event before election day.
Des Moines, Iowa — For the final campaign event of the 2012 cycle, President Barack Obama returned to where his bid for presidency began.
At a rally downtown here, against the backdrop of the capital, the president and first lady Michelle Obama took the crowd back four years ago, when they were campaigning at the state fair and celebrating the birthday of one of their daughters.
“Tomorrow we get the chance to finish what we started in Iowa,” the first lady said before introducing her husband.
Talking about those early days in Iowa, the president appeared emotional as he started by thanking the volunteers gathered.
"All of you who have lived and breathed the hard work of change, I want to thank you," Obama said.
To the others, he evoked popular lines from his 2008 stump speech.
"When the cynics said we couldn't, you said yes we can – you said yes, we can, and we did. Against all odds and we did," he said. But, he added, “We're not done yet on this journey."
About 20,000 people filled the streets downtown with signs that read “Forward!” They cheered when the president challenged them to fight with him.
"I've got a lot more fight left in me,” he said. “But to wage that fight on behalf of American families, I need you to still have some fight in you too.”
Jason Reed / Reuters
Tears were visible on President Obama's cheek during his final presidential campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday.
His mentions of 2008 also served as a reminder that even at larger rallies, the president’s campaign does not have the same energy as his first. The president seemed to acknowledge that as well when he said, “We’ve come too far to let our hearts grow faint.”
He also told a story he recounted during the 2008 campaign, which on Monday night took on new meaning.
The story was about Edith Childs, the South Carolinian who brought the “Fired up, Ready to Go” chant to his campaign.
This time, the story had a new twist. The Obama campaign had offered to fly Childs to Des Moines for Obama’s last event of the 2012 campaign.
But she refused, the president said, because she didn’t have time. She was organizing people to knock on doors – she thought he still had a chance to win North Carolina.
Concluding the story – and his campaign – Obama said, “And that shows you what one voice can do.”
GOP candidate Mitt Romney has added last-minute events on Tuesday, Election Day, but for Obama, the election has wrapped up.
He flies to Chicago on Tuesday and will spend the day playing basketball – which tomorrow becomes an Election Day tradition – with staff and friends, including his former bodyman Reggie Love, who made an appearance on the trail Monday as well.
"It’s out of my hands now,” Obama said. “It’s in yours. All of it depends on what you do.”
Reuters, Getty Images
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Crocodile tears. I've seen better tears on General Hospital.
If that was a real tear it was because the family vacation is over. He can now go back a to his anti-American church, shout that he is a muslim , take the flag pin off, he doesn't have to salute the flag anymore make phoney speeches at military funeral, and go back to Kenya the place he keeps talking about that he loves so much .The leader of the world, (those are his words), or man without a country.
And don't forget this one when heading to the polls!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJgWMI0hch8
Obozo has tears from fear! He knows that was his very last apprearance as president. Maybe if he really would have done something for this country, he wouldnt be crying. Cant wait to see him cry when he gets sent packing. Maybe hell take 4 Free cell phones for each one of his family members. Hope they have phone service in Kenya!!
Good Luck Obozo!
RR 2012
What a schmuck! Even able to pull off the fake tear trick. This guy is a piece of work. Let's see how much he crys when he loses!!!
TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION , AND AMERICANS LEFT HOMELESS ; tell that to '' mr. polygamist '' , and his band of caring republican conservative tea party of the '' STEAL FROM THE DIRT POOR , AND GIVE IT TO WALL STREET AND THE KOCH BROTHERS ''. THEY FEEL YOUR PAIN , AND THEY KNOW ENTITLEMENTS ARE WHAT'S HURTING YOU. all you homeless and desperate people need is '' A CAN OF BEANS , LOL , LOL , LOL , haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa heeeeeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it's their gift , that they want to keep on giving !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in my life time , i've seen the times of segregation , at school on the day of the assassination of martin luther king , brave soldiers of vietnam , segregated water fountains , restrooms , restaurants , mother being turned from eating in whites only eateries while vacationing in florida with people she worked for , lynchings going on in different parts of my world , uneasiness in the black communities , and then '' low-n-behold '' , we are given the the '' MOST POWERFUL POSITION IN THE WORLD '' !!!!!! I LOVE MY COUNTRY , THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF !!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!!!!!!!
It's too bad catchphrases don't get our economy expanding in a real recovery - we would all be sitting on 20 pieces of gold if it were so.
Obama has sat too long for any good he is doing. It's about jobs! You did nothing for jobs your first two years for the many and bought union votes for today from the few you did help (GM, teachers, other public union members) with the stinulus you ripped off from the taxpayers in this country.
"We've created 5M jobs"! What O doesn't say is another 5.5M were laid off hence a slight tick up in unemployment.
Only someone with a compromised cranium could justify a vote for O.
It'd be nice if the President and/or the Governors of the worst-affected states would declare a three-month moratorium on rents, loans, and mortgage payments for people and companies under a certain amount of net worth (obviously not rich people and businesses).
If there's no public transportation, people can't get to work. If they can't get to work, they can't pay their rent. If their landlords can't collect rent, they can't pay their own mortgages.
Now boarding....Flight 47 to the Caymans.
Ta-ta
Your man O has dough there too. Betcha didn't know that huh dummy? In his retirement fund investments.
Vote with your pocket books people!!
RR 2012
people , please remember , '' the gop did not want robme '', they are only acting like they were for him all the time. they claim to be '' jesus name christians '', but robme has them trusting in a '' moroni '' worshipper. lol , lol , lol , haaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa he's turned them into idolatrous leaning hipocrits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! next thing they will do is let bishop polygamy give their 12 year old daughters to child molestors in his cult.
Obama is crying because he knows his time is at its end. Tired of his excuses, lies and lack of productivity. He is with out a doubt the worst president we have ever had and his sorry record proves it.
Romney and Republicans further down the food chain for the first time began
imagining another four years of Democratic rule in the White House.
First, a handful of Republicans battling for election in close Senate races
in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada publicly distanced themselves from Romney’s surreptitiously videotaped comments that “47 percent”
of Americans think of themselves as victims, pay no income taxes and are
dependent on government support. ”That’s not the way I view the world,” said
Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who is struggling to fend off a challenge by Democrat
Elizabeth Warren
BTW........"W" sends his deepest apology for being absent during the entire Romnesia 2012 campaign. Same for Newt, Santorum, Perry, Cain, Huntsman, etc. etc............
rebel.......i never mentioned anything about your flip-flopping boy regarding Caymans.
A touchy subject for ya???
Don't patronize me. Mommy is calling you for your oatmeal and hot cocoa chump LOL
I don't want to spike the football yet....but this hopefully has the makings of a perfect scenario. The first debate kept Romney in it for a while and with it, all the money from the Super PACs and the RNC. I was worried they were going to pull money and really go heavy in the downballot races. They didn't because they thought Romney could win....in the mean time, however, the Senate became basically out of reach for the GOP...and there is even talk the Dems could take back the House.
Pure, utter rejection of everything the right has stood for since 2010. I love it!
Lets do this
You sound pretty desperate on here. Face it. Its over for Bozo. You asked earlier how Romney could campaign after Sandy. Why did OBOZO lie about Libiya and go to Vegas the next day? Answer that or shut the hell up. Hes done and the truth about Libiya will be told.
RR 2012
let's do this is on his third beer already this morning
Once the Chinese lift the one child ban on birthing in China there will be a whole lot of Chinese who need jobs.
With the lower pay rate, no health insurance and the safety standards that American companies are made to provide to the American worker by the government so that America does not return to the 1800's when young kids as young as five worked in factors, more U.S. companies will move out of America to meet the demand of the growing population in China.
More jobs will leave America thus affecting the U.S. economy that much more.
....and America wants to vote Romney in as president?
Romney will be the first one to close down jobs here in America , and sell the assets to China , while he banks hundreds of millions of dollars.
And what is President Obama's plan to work within this global trend? Raise the cost of healthcare to business. Support & subsidize unionized labor.
Obama cries at his final rally. What's new. He has been a cry baby his entire 4 year term. He's always complaining about about Bush. He complains about the resistance he's getting from congress. If it's not one thing, it's another. This guy who promised this country change actually succeed....only it wasn't the change the majority of Americans wanted. We don't want to live in a socialized environment like the Europeans. Obama has been bad for this country for 4 years. A reelected Obama will be a disaster for this country for 4 more years.
Now for you Obama supporters. For the past 4 years, you too are a bunch of winers. You never have your fact straight. It is easy to recognize the liberals on these posts because the left wingers are those who call the conservatives names...even throw out curse words. When Romney wins...and I mean win big which he will...within 6 months you will begin to see a marked improvement in our economy. And then, hopefully, we will begin to see an end to the liberal crying.
rebel = low-information voter
"WALL STREET OVERWHELMING BACKS ROMNEY" That statement in itself should be a clear indication for Americans to vote for OBAMA !!! Wall Street does not like Obama's plans or policies ...........
VOTE OBAMA ......
VOTE OBAMA ......
VOTE OBAMA ......
Wish there was a way to make Rush Limpballs disappear with Romnesia
odumbo sheds a tear, how about the millions of people out of work; they have been shedding a lot tears. How about the tears of familey member murdered by weapons supplied to drug cartels in Mexico, or the familey and friends of those killed in Libya, just to be told it was because of a video that know one even haerd of. Wonder if they are shedding any tears.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN , LOL !!! this is the heart concern of a ku klux klansman
My fellow Americans, please overlook my absence from the presidential campaign and vote for Flip Flopney.....
Love,
"W"
why shouldn't people feel better ??? i mean , we do have a great president at the helm people. this man single handedly killed usama bin ladin , saved the auto industry from BAIN CAPITAL , and ended that war of lies , started by those warmongering republican conservative wall street gagers. why shouldn't they be happy to know this man not only has the back of those 47% who robme calls '' AMERICA'S FREE LOADING REJECTS '' , but their's as well ??? GOD BLESS PRESIDENT OBAMA !!!!!!!!
Yeah, right. What have the Democrats done improve their position over the last 50 years? The political "enslavement" continues. Obamacare will cost millions to lose their current coverage and many millions more will remain without any coverage. All that for a cool $2T+.
"I don't know what I said but whatever it was, I stand behind it"
DEPERATELY SEARCHING FOR POWER , SOUNDS LIKE THE ROMNEYS LIFE STORY , LOL !!!!! ;
OK. What’s Mitt’s known successes over the years?
1 - He successfully bankrupted companies for $90 million a pop profit, putting thousands of white people out of work
2 - He successfully hid our money in offshore accounts..
3 - He is successfully avoiding disclosing his tax returns that shows that he didn’t pay taxes.
4 - He has successfully ran a State as Governor that was 47th in job creation.
5 - He is successfully avoiding talking about his Mormon religion.
6 - He is successfully avoiding associating with minorities (especially black people). Because, you know, they are beneath him.
7- He is successfully avoiding associating with white trash. Because, you know, they are beneath him. Sorry, Tea Party people.
8 - He is successfully building a car elevator in his home. You know why. So that his pampered wife will not have far to walk when leaving her 3rd level bedroom.
9 - He will successfully lose the bid for the Presidency.
Don't forget to cast your vote for Roseanne Barr.
BLAH BLAH BLAH...Nate Silver has the President as an 86% favorite this morning with a projected 306 electoral votes.
It's over. Barring MASSIVE GOP VOTER FRAUD, it's in the bag!
Go vote, make history.
Four more for forty-four
Obama/Biden 2012
Romney and Republicans further down the food chain for the first time began
imagining another four years of Democratic rule in the White House.
First, a handful of Republicans battling for election in close Senate races
in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada publicly distanced themselves from Romney’s surreptitiously videotaped comments that “47 percent”
of Americans think of themselves as victims, pay no income taxes and are
dependent on government support. ”That’s not the way I view the world,” said
Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who is struggling to fend off a challenge by Democrat
Elizabeth Warren.
I don't want to spike the football yet....but this hopefully has the makings of a perfect scenario. The first debate kept Romney in it for a while and with it, all the money from the Super PACs and the RNC. I was worried they were going to pull money and really go heavy in the downballot races. They didn't because they thought Romney could win....in the mean time, however, the Senate became basically out of reach for the GOP...and there is even talk the Dems could take back the House.
Pure, utter rejection of everything the right has stood for since 2010. I love it!
Lot's of desperate republicans posting, Who's sorry now we ran Willard Milton Romney...
Ann Coulter " If we don't run someone like Chris Christy, and we run Romney we will LOSE" The only quote from Ann I agree with. LOL
Get out the tissue's Romney is going to lose, on the other hand with the re-election of President Obama the country wins!!!!
O&JOE Forward not back!
For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased
THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER.!
Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 85.5% likely to win 307 Electoral College votes!
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President Obama chances of winning: the popular vote - 80.5%
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President Obama chances of winning: *OHIO* - 86%
President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%
President Obama chances of winning: WISC - 94%
President Obama chances of winning: PA - 97.1%
President Obama chances of winning: VA - 71.%
President Obama chances of winning: NH - 79.4%
President Obama chances of winning: NV - 89.5%
President Obama chances of winning: CO - 68.1%
PREJUDICE AND BIGOTRY WILL DESTROY AMERICA , IT WILL LITERALLY STOP THE BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD OF HEAVEN '' IN OUR COUNTRY '' !!!! WE'VE GOT TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL BROTHERS !!!!
I just read, in disbelief, that Ryan said today that "Barack Obama is a threat to christian values" Its amazing what he and Mitt will say to win the Presidency. That statement is absolutly insane. If you believe that statement, you are just as nutty as they are. The right wingers say that the President is leading this country down the path of socialism, well it looks like they want the country on the path to a theocracy. HIPOCRITS WANTING TO STEAL FROM THE POOR AND GIVE TO THE FILTHY RICH , NOW WANTS US TO BELIEVE THIS IS THE WILL OF JESUS CHRIST ??? I KNOW '' MORONI '' HAS REALLY WACKED THEIR HEADS !!!! CHRISTIAN VALUES also oppose '' PREJUDICE '' , lynchings , adultery , fornication , shacking up , lying , stealing on your 1040 , whoremongering , cursing , smoking , drinking , pill popping , weed toking , drug dealing , jealousy , and coming against your president that he put in office. and the beat goes on. sooooooo who has no sin , and can judge others ????? !!!! throw the first stone !!!!!!! IT WILL BE EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE , THEN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN !!!!!!!!! BECAUSE THE RICH GETS '' GREEDY '' , JUST LIKE ROMNEY
Obama is voting for Roseanne Barr.