In Seattle, Obama tells party faithful: 'We need you fired up'

This gets me fired up ...

From Philip Rucker of The Washington Post on Oct. 21:

SEATTLE - President Obama swooped into this traditionally Democratic corner of the country Thursday to implore the party faithful to rekindle the enthusiasm they felt in 2008 and help propel a senator locked in a surprisingly close reelection contest.

"We need you fired up," Obama told a packed crowd inside a basketball arena here at the University of Washington to rally for Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). He added: "We are grinding it out. We are doing the hard, frustrating, inch-by-inch, day-by-day, week-by-week work of bringing about change."

Obama sounded familiar themes in his Seattle speech, trumpeting what his administration and congressional Democrats did to stave off an economic depression and warning that if Republicans win control of Congress, they would return to the same economic policies that led the nation into a recession.

"They figured if they just sat on the sidelines and opposed us every step of the way, then eventually they could ride that anger and that frustration to success in this election," Obama said. "In other words, they were betting on amnesia. They were betting on the idea that you'd forget who caused this mess in the first place. Now let me tell you, Seattle: It's up to you to tell them you haven't forgotten."

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