Obama Campaign Stop: Economic Competitiveness Summit

On his way to the White House, Sen. Barack Obama spoke at Carnegie Mellon University on June 26, 2008. He ended his three week "Change that Works for You" tour by hosting a summit at Carnegie Mellon on ensuring America's competitiveness in the global economy. The summit brought together economic, educational, community-based and industry leaders to discuss the challenges facing our workforce and craft solutions for the 21st Century. Participating in summit were: Federico Peña, Managing Director, Vestar Capital Partners, Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, Revolution, LLC, Andy Stern, International President, SEIU, Susan Hockfield, President, MIT, Geoffrey Canada, President & CEO, Harlem Children's Zone, Lael Brainard, Vice President and Director, U.S. Competitiveness Initiative, The Brookings Institution, Eli Broad, Founder, The Broad Foundation, John P. Surma, Chairman & CEO, United States Steel Corporation, Rick Wagoner, Chairman & CEO, General Motors, Senator Barack Obama, Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Susan Castillo, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oregon Department of Education, General Jim Jones, USMC (ret), President & CEO, Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Vinod Khosla, Founder & Partner, Khosla Ventures.

In anticipation of the 2009 presidential election, Carnegie Mellon extended invitations to speak on campus to both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Obama. The university does not support or oppose any particular candidate and maintains an open door policy to all presidential candidates.

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[jtartsy]

Stop regurgitating propaganda from fox news..what MAJOR issues did Obama flip flop on? McCain flip flopped on torture, taxes, campaign finance, gay marriage, guns, confederate flag, Hagee, Falwell, earmarks, ethanol, immigration, abortion, Bob Jones University, social security, intelligent design, Iraq, Diplomacy, MLK day, Henry Kissinger, Law of the sea, the Wyly brothers, his church denomination... lol His campaign actually said that his positions "evolve" WTF does that mean..lol..

[procommenter]

Highlights of Obama's speech, in a nutshell: "Oh...ah,eh...ah,aw, aw, ya...oh...aw, eh...aw..."

[HostingReviews1]

he really know what he talking about.

[muhammadzahmad]

Pres. Obama has his point...

[katheryncruz24]

who did watch it?

[iowa991]

who watched it all??

[baileybronfg]

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[guitarplayer4real]

Democrap morons, you people cant think your way out of a wet paper sack!

[westonsz]

@cnestudy1 The race to the bottom will drain the federal and local treasuries of the cash they need to operate. To have a civilized country with good schools and infastucture you need tax revenue. With only a limited number of citizens able to contribute to fund the entire nation America will fail. My local school district has had a levy on the ballot every year for 6 years now with it passing only once. If the trend is not reversed we will see this mud hole standard in less than 25 years.

[westonsz]

@cnestudy1

What I see is a pattern of rising taxes on the citizen combined with lower wages. These two factors will feed each other till there is just nothing left. Better wages equal lower taxes. Thirty years ago your average working person earned enough to be a contributor. Now the majority do not make enough to pay federal tax. Offshoring everything has created big holes that the citizen here who does make enough will have to pay.

[cnestudy1]

@westonsz do u know what year the infastructure of the schools might crumble