Election Time Candidate Call in Today
It's
our election time 'Candidate Call In" to the VT show today from
1:05-2pm. If you're running for office call in 503 225 0860 and be
prepared to give a :45 elevator pitch and savvy enough to take a follow
up question on the role of government. Tell a candidate. That is all.
General Colin Powell could not call, but he did say today:
ReplyDelete”When [Obama] took over, the country was in very, very difficult straits, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The fiscal system was collapsing. Wall Street was in chaos. We had 800,000 jobs lost in that first month of the Obama administration and unemployment would peak a few months later at 10percent. So we were in real trouble….
“I think generally we’ve come out of the dive and we’re starting to gain altitude. It doesn’t mean we are problem-solved, there are lots of problems still out there. The unemployment rate is too high. People are still hurting in housing. But I see that we are starting to rise up.
“I also saw the President get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally, I think that the actions he’s taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid.”