Obama: 'Change won't come easy'
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 - 06:27 AM Updated: 12:47 AM
Two weeks before the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama today returned to battleground Virginia and energized a crowd of nearly 13,000 at the Richmond Coliseum. The Obama campaign cited a city fire official who said an additional 7,000 people were outside.
"It's good to be back in Virginia. It's good to be back with some of my favorite friends," Obama said, after he held hands aloft with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and with former Gov. Mark R. Warner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Earlier in the day, Obama stood with foreign policy advisers at the Jefferson Hotel and defended remarks by his running mate, who has suggested that if Obama is elected, foreign adversaries will try to test the mettle of the new president.
Obama said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. "sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is because... the next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems."
Obama stood with retired generals and ex-members of Congress, such as former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga.,and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind, co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
"The question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction, by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology, but we're about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems," he said. "That's going to be the best way to meet that test and I am confident that we'll be able to do so."
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 - 06:27 AM Updated: 12:47 AM
Two weeks before the presidential election, Sen. Barack Obama today returned to battleground Virginia and energized a crowd of nearly 13,000 at the Richmond Coliseum. The Obama campaign cited a city fire official who said an additional 7,000 people were outside.
"It's good to be back in Virginia. It's good to be back with some of my favorite friends," Obama said, after he held hands aloft with Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and with former Gov. Mark R. Warner, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
Earlier in the day, Obama stood with foreign policy advisers at the Jefferson Hotel and defended remarks by his running mate, who has suggested that if Obama is elected, foreign adversaries will try to test the mettle of the new president.
Obama said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. "sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes. But I think that his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is because... the next administration is going to be inheriting a whole host of really big problems."
Obama stood with retired generals and ex-members of Congress, such as former Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga.,and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind, co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
"The question is will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction, by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology, but we're about creating partnerships around the world to solve practical problems," he said. "That's going to be the best way to meet that test and I am confident that we'll be able to do so."
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