Obama to critics: Shut up and get out of the way

Obama's remarks at a Creigh Deeds rally last night in McLean, VA, trying to get his groove back by the usual metholds:

Strawman:

There are those out there who want us to go down the same old path -- the path where we just throw up our hands and say, "We can't do anything about education. It's too hard. We can't do anything about health care -- it's too tough." A path where our children fall behind, our workers lose out, they watch jobs being shipped overseas; our health care costs keep rising, our oil dependency keeps on growing. All we do is just then bicker and point fingers.

Blame Bush:

So now you've got folks on the other side of the aisle pointing at the federal budget and somehow trying to put that at our feet. Well, let's look at the history. When I walked in, we had a $1.3 trillion deficit. That was gift-wrapped and waiting for me when I walked in the Oval Office. (Laughter.) Without my policies we'd have an even higher deficit going forward. The one exception is the recovery package that we had to do in order to get this economy moving again. (Applause.)

Quell debate and dissent:

So you can't go out there and charge up the credit card, go on an all kinds of things shopping spree that didn’t grow the economy, hand over the bill to us, and then say, why haven’t you paid it off yet. (Applause.) I got that bill from you. (Laughter.) So we've got some work to do. I don't mind, by the way, being responsible; I expect to be held responsible for these issues because I'm the President. (Applause.) But I don't want the folks who created the mess -- I don't want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. (Applause.) I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking. (Applause.)

Video of that part here.

Regain the magic:

I need every one of you to knock on doors and make phone calls, and get fired up once again so that we can go towards the future, confident with Creigh Deeds leading the great commonwealth of Virginia.

The partisan crowd loved him. But in the audio (which I'll add if I can find it) he sounded a bit desperate at the end. Does he ever wish he could turn back the clock to 2008 and bedazzle massive crowds with his empty hope and change rhetoric?

More video of the speech here.

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