Speaking to a rally in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on Ronald Reagan’s famous plea that voters consider whether they were better
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Speaking to a rally in Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama riffed on Ronald Reagan’s famous plea that voters consider whether they were better off now than they were four years prior.
“At the pace things are going right now,” Obama told the crowd, “you’re going to have to ask whether you’re better off than you were four weeksago!”
Obama went on to say that despite public anxiety, this is no time for fear or panic, and he seemed to plug his own capacity for providing “resolve and steady leadership.” (That line was met with brief chants of Obama.) Within hours of the speech, the Obama campaign posted a clip of the speech on YouTube:
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