Earlier today in York, PA, Barack Obama talked with reporters about the negative, meaningless Republican convention. His basic message:
This is what they do. They don't have an agenda to run on. They haven't offered a single concrete idea so far in two nights about how they would make the lives of middle class Americans better.
Transcript of his comments about why he's focusing on McCain instead of Palin below the fold. Here's video:
Asked why he's not slamming Sarah Palin:
Because John McCain is running for president, I'm running against John McCain. And as far as I can tell, I don't get a sense that Governor Palin has ideas that are different from John McCain's. And that speech that she delivered was on behalf of John McCain. And the central question in this campaign is who's got a better plan, a better agenda to move this country forward and fundamentally change it from the economic and foreign policy failures that we've seen over the last eight years. I believe the American people need change, they want change, and I'm in the best position to bring it, on a whole host of issues from energy to health care to education. And if it some point Senator McCain actually addresses those issue, I think that's going to be a useful debate for the American people to listen to.
© Jed Lewison