President Obama continued his effort to mobilize his base this afternoon on health care reform, telling the AFL-CIO National Convention in Pittsburgh, “Arm in arm, we’re gonna get this done.”
“How much longer are we gonna have to wait? It can’t wait,” he said, as the crowd chanted, “We can’t wait! We can’t wait!”
He took a shot at the past administration, saying at $900 billion, reform will cost less than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the upper-class tax cuts, “Wars and taxes that were not paid for and ballooned our deficit to record levels.”
Obama ended his speech with the story of the Aliquippa strike, when workers went to the Supreme Court and won the right to organize.
“Let’s go get this done,” he said.
