It was fitting that Barack Obama brought his closing argument speech to Pittsburgh: this is a city of many lives, one born in a cradle of steel and promise that collapsed and rose again and knows something about reinvention. "The American story has never been about things coming easy," Obama said. "It's about seeing the highest mountaintop from the deepest of valleys." This hilly city is as good a place as any to come for that kind of view. It is, according to the August census report, the fifth poorest city in the country, and yet ranks as among the most livable. A building that houses the near-homeless is having trouble making its mortgage payments 70-646 642-453 70-236 642-415 642-456 350-018 642-373 — yet this was the only northeast metro area in one survey that saw home prices actually rise last month. You want to see hope and fear arm-wrestling each other? Come to Pittsburgh.
70-643 70-624 156-215.1 650-251 642-444 70-631 MB7-515 And then he turned McCain's attacks back against him. The way out of this ditch, Obama argued, was rewarding drive and innovation but also making sure businesses look out for workers and play by the rules. "That's how we've always grown the American economy — from the bottom up. John McCain calls this socialism. I call it opportunity, and there is nothing more American than that." And the crowd raised the steel roof of the Mellon arena.
