I quote, 'if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'

Obama said. "His campaign actually said, and I quote, 'if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.' "

I have heard so many times this exact sentence over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
I went on internet and try to figure it out myself, who could be the idiot enough to say that in public even if its true.. Found none, zilch, nada...
all I found is:
1. On October 4, the Washington Post wrote an article in which several Republicans signaled a change in McCain's strategy. The article quotes an unnamed "senior Republican operative"
2. An October 6 article in the New York Daily News quotes "a top McCain strategist" another unnamed quote

Can someone please help please who exactly quoted this quote coming out of Sen. Obama's mouth again and again... or it is just his strategy to tell lie again and again and full the people.

Looks like even CNN is not able to find proof for Obama and put this as disputed..

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/15/fact-check-did-mccains-campaign-say-it-needed-to-shift-focus-from-the-economy/

Swdeshi Movement and Hurricane Ike - Keep the Dollar within country

As the people in Texas and surrounding areas rebuild their lives after Hurricane Ike, I wonder how many of them realize they have a unique opportunity to help rebuild America at the same time.

They have the opportunity to help themselves, their children, their sisters and brothers, their friends, their neighbors and virtually every American worker.

They can help as they buy new clothing, home furnishings, household appliances, home repair items, toys for their children, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks or whatever their purchases might be.

The unique opportunity is: Make the right choice and buy American-made products from American companies and help keep Americans working.

So not only, Oil the one place where we want to break our dependancy on Foreign nations, but also for other items that we are not looking as significant.

Benefit 1: The Economy
The Economy - by spending money to buy American made products from American company, keeps the money in the country instead of draining it out to China. The way i think, its going on since few years is - you spend your $ on china made items, keeping some profit aside, that $ is going to China... and than China is giving US the same $ as loan... So why we cant keep our $ in our country.

Since last few years, there is continous increse in gap between goods/ services we export vs. we import... we are importing more and more and that is the problem.
This reminds very old strategy used while fighting for independance against british by Ghandhiji...

Swadeshi movement / Self-sufficiency: (Hindi: स्वदेशी) This movement, part of the Indian independence movement, was a successful economic strategy to remove the British Empire from power and improve economic conditions in India through following principles of swadeshi (self-sufficiency). Strategies of the swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival of domestic-made products and production techniques. Swadeshi, as a strategy, was a key focus of Mahatma Gandhi who described it as the soul of Swaraj (self rule).

If back then India can think and use this strategy, I guess, technically sound nation like US can do this very easily...

Benefit 2 - The Budget Deficit
Working Americans pay local, state and federal taxes.
Our tax dollars are used for many things, but they also go to work in times such as this, to provide a multitude of services way too broad to list, in areas damaged by Hurricane Ike.

The United States government is much like a household. It needs money coming in to provide not only the services we often take for granted, but also to provide aid during times of natural disasters.

And both of these are the power that runs the Engine of local economy which is slowing down.