November 4, 2008 – When the presidential race was in its final days, Barack Obama spoke with Prime Time Radio's Mike Cuthbert about issues of interest to our audience.
This year's campaign was set against a backdrop of the greatest upheaval in world financial markets since the Great Depression. Falling home values, the plunging stock market, rising health costs, and disappearing retirement savings were, and still are, issues that effect older Americans disproportionately.
Senator Obama spoke about these concerns and more - and he talked movingly about his grandmother and what her strength and independence had meant to him... (She died a few days after this interview...) (listen to excerpt)
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