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Read comments (12)At the Futurity Wednesday night, Bredesen made an earlier-than-usual appearance at the horse show because he'll be out stumping for Obama, then heading on to the Democratic National Convention, which means he won't be available during the Celebration. Traditionally, the governor awards the floral horse show or trophy at the World Grand Championship on the last Saturday night of the show.
"The Obama campaign has asked me to go up and travel around small communities, talking to some folks," he said at Calsonic arena Wednesday.
Bredesen, a Democrat superdelegate who didn't endorse Obama until after he appeared to clinch the Democratic nomination, said he didn't know yet where in Ohio he would be campaigning. He said it was a small role in the overall campaign, but "I'm very happy to be doing that."
He said he was looking forward to the convention, meeting with other Democrat governors and comparing notes.
Bredesen said earlier this month he's not being considered as Obama's running mate, despite previous speculation in the media that he may have been under consideration. At a press conference held at the arena Wednesday, he said he had no idea whom Obama was considering.
-- The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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well Nascarfan, I reckon you will be the ignorant one if you elect Obama as president.. Maybe he wasn't a muslim, but his ancestors were. Did you ever see him support the american flag at any of his speeches? I have not, but excuse me if I am wrong.. All I know is I have a feeling that America will get worse, and immigration will too. Maybe McCain isn't the best either.. who knows? I am just scared for our country, and excuse me for being concerned..
Last time I checked, Obama would not say the pledge of allegiance, would NOT wear and American flag, or sing the National Anthem. PPL!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE!?!?! I am a believer in God, and I know for a fact if Obama makes president, we will no longer have the motto "In God We Trust". Another thing people have forgotten is the soldiers that died for AMERICA and we are allowing a Muslim to run for our president?!
I don't know about yall, but I love my country too much to see it go down like this..
-- Posted by Jessica_07 on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 9:29 AM
Obama isn't a Muslim... In God We Trust wasn't put on our currency until the 1950s, and if you truly believed in God you wouldn't be spreading vicious lies to cover for your lack of knowledge..
Why did you wait for 8 years of destruction by Bush and Co. to say something??? Odd.
Maybe, you should do your homework dear, because if you came to take a test tomorrow, you'd make a big fat "F"..
Jessica_07 you are IGNORANT.. Educate yourself. You make yourself look stupid.
Last time I checked, Obama would not say the pledge of allegiance, would NOT wear and American flag, or sing the National Anthem. PPL!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE!?!?! I am a believer in God, and I know for a fact if Obama makes president, we will no longer have the motto "In God We Trust". Another thing people have forgotten is the soldiers that died for AMERICA and we are allowing a Muslim to run for our president?! We had people die for our freedom, and we are throwing it away like it's nothing? Families have lost loved ones for us, and it makes me sick to know that America has forgotten about that.
I truly believe that the reason he has so many supporters is because so many people have turned their backs on God and they don't read the Bible enough to be educated. And then Obama comes up and makes people think he is going to change our world and make everything so much better (like a new way) and people think he is going to change a lot of things when he's only going to make it worse.I watched Obama when he was on Oprah and I liked him after I watched it. But when I read the e-mails our soldiers sent to us about him coming to Iraq and would not even shake their hands, etc... it all made sense to me. People make decisions too fast before they educate themselves u know? Everyone needs to do their homework and figure out what's going on but they don't. They just think he is going to be the best thing since sliced bread,and they'll all be the first ones crying when he starts distroying America. I don't know about yall, but I love my country too much to see it go down like this..
And I quote:
"During his first year in office, Bredesen worked to instill the citizens of Tennessee with a renewed confidence that government can work for the betterment of the citizens and the entire state. One of his first acts as governor was to open the door on administrative budget meetings, creating a new level of candor, openness and accountability and allowing taxpayers to see how the decisions are made on how their money is spent. Bredesen's first three executive orders established the toughest ethics rules in history for the Tennessee executive branch. He also managed Tennessee through a fiscal crisis without raising taxes or cutting funding for education. By Bredesen's fourth year in office, Tennessee had passed four balanced budgets, received top rankings from national bond rating agencies and raised its Rainy Day Fund to a record high.
In his second and third years on the job, Bredesen pushed to improve education. He did this by raising teacher pay above average salary in the Southeast and expanding Tennessee's pre-kindergarten initiative into a program for four-year-olds across Tennessee. He created the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation, a statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library that offers children free books monthly in all 95 counties. In his fourth year, Bredesen worked with the General Assembly to increase funding for education by $366.5 million.
He worked with the General Assembly to reform Tennessee's worker compensation system and invest in programs to help laid-off employees develop new skills, in order to recruit new industry and jobs to Tennessee. Since he took office, 2,889 companies -- including Nissan and International Paper- have expanded in or moved to Tennessee, bringing more than 104,000 jobs and $12.8 billion in new business investment to the state.
One of the biggest accomplishments of his first four years as governor was Bredesen taking control of TennCare. The program made necessary reductions in adult enrollment while preserving full enrollment for children and disease management initiatives. He continues to build on this foundation with Cover Tennessee, a new initiative to provide access to affordable health care for severely ill Tennesseans who have been denied health insurance, for uninsured children and for uninsured working adults.
Bredesen is a supporter of capital punishment. But he commuted the death sentence for one inmate to life without parole, citing "ineffective legal counsel at his sentencing and procedural limitations on his appeals"
Hmmm...
Exactly what has Bredesen done that can be classified as liberal? He reduced the number on tax payer funded TennCare, he balanced the budget on multiple occasions, the governor didn't lure sports teams in, that was the mayor of Nashville. Though I am sure Bredesen didn't object.
Lamar Alexander was in power when Nissan arrived, and 30 years later, they are still here and one of the best paying corporations in the state. Seems as if Bredesen is doing what a Republican governor did, just perhaps more effectively. In the meantime, have we payed for the Sundquist private jet, Operation Tennessee Waltz and the monumental amount of corruption at the state level? Call him a liberal or whatever useless verbiage you prefer, but none of that takes away from his accomplishments. Btw, define liberal, in times like these conservatism is most definitely not the solution.
Darrick or Dimwit04 Bredesen will go down as the most liberal governor ever of Tenn. Do you have any idea of how much he has gave away for 'growth'? Nashville is still trying to pay off what he spent to get a losing football team to come to town. It still has not been published how much he gave to Volkswagon to come to Tenn. We, as in you too, will get to pay for sometime to come for his follies.
Bredesen is as useless as Obama.
-- Posted by tatersue on Fri, Aug 22, 2008, at 2:09 PM
This would be where you should prove what you say... oh that's right, Bredesen has been one of the most successful governors the state of Tennessee has ever been privileged to have.
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LOL, is that even possible.
-- Posted by greasemonkey on Fri, Aug 22, 2008, at 2:20 PM
Yeah, Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfield, Rove, and McCain.. just to name a few.
Mayberry, you are just mad because you are not smart enough to figure out how to own seven houses. Maybe you and Barney can come up with something to get out of that.
Well tatersue, LOL,
At least both Obama and Bredesen have never went to a biker rally and offer to enter his wife into a wet t-shirt contest. Mccain said yesterday he can't even remember how many houses him and his wife have. Millions of Americans now know that Mccain a) owns seven houses b) HAS NO IDEA HOW MANY HOUSES HE HAS! It reinforces his age, his wealth, and most importantly, his out-of-touchness with Americans.
LOL, is that even possible.
Bredesen is as useless as Obama.