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The Times on Obama’s trip to Ohio: “President Obama, betting that the glimmers of a resurgence in the Rust Belt could lift him to victory in the fall, set off Thursday on a two-day bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania, promoting himself as a defender of American manufacturing jobs and taking aim at those he said could steal those jobs away. … It was a day of sweaty handshakes and fast-melting ice cream cones, as Mr. Obama’s armored black bus snaked across northern Ohio, its hulking profile blurry in the shimmering heat waves. In one-on-one encounters at a farm market and a diner, and in a speech at an ice cream social, Mr. Obama sought to sharpen his message on the economy, etching the differences between him and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.”
And: “The tour gives Mr. Obama the chance to make an argument that however weak the job market is nationally, the outlook for battleground states like Ohio is brightening. With the release of another potentially poor employment number on Friday, that argument could allow him to weather the ebbs and flows of a fragile economy.”
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From the 4th of July to Election Day it is the Economy, the Economy, the Economy.
It sucks and will be the reason we will have a new President Elected in November.
Economic reality always wins.
Keep cheering for a bad economy WCA. It's what you tea people Koch republicans do best. In fact it's all you people do. If you'd get out of your Fox bubble you'd realize the majority of the voters are blaming the do nothing congress for the bad economy. But by all means keep believing what you been fed by your fearless leaders, it will just lead to disappointment in November. You do realize the republican congress has a 9% approval? Now that ought to get your tea people a lot of votes in November.
No White Collar Auto, common sense always wins. And a majority of the voters have enough "common sense" to know who is to blame for the economic mess of the last three years. The do nothing congress.
Yeah- about those "glimmers of hope" in Ohio and Pennsy-
Those economies are being aided by fracking- something that gives the Flat Earth Society the vapors. Given the Obama EPA war on coal- how long after, (heaven forfend!) Obama got re elected do you suppose it would be before that industry iwas shut down?
Cause, I'd give it ten minutes after polls closed.
Something I've been busy advising people in those states. Funny thing- they seem to believe it- particularly when seen in the context of what's been done with coal plants.
I think it's hilarious, that the Republican Party, which claims to adhere to the libertarian tenets of personal responsibilty, and reliance on the free market, argues that the President of the United States should be replaced because unemployment hasn't fallen fast enough since the worst financial crisis in American history, besides the Great Depression. Daddy didn't fix everything fast enough! We need a new Daddy!
Like, putting Romney in there is going to magically improve those figures - but no one can explain exactly what he would do differently except take away healthcare reform and cut taxes for the wealthy.
Its not the economy stupid, its the fact that Romney is a Cult member shrouded in secrecy. Read what Andrew Sullivan wrote recently about this issue and your eyes will be opened. Please, no cult leader should be POTUS.
Exactly anaxgnosis - and the republicans in the south are worried, they know that Bubba and the SBC along with fellow evangecals will never vote for a Morman, all our life they taught us that religion is a cult and an evil one at that. Sure don't see the south voting in big numbers for mitt, I know this as I've lived in bubbaland all my life. It is a pretty big deal down here.
Congrats to those hellbent on destroying this country. You are succeeding in financially and morally bankrupting the US. Country is becoming a bunch of lazy socialists. Half of the population does not work and the other half now mandated to support them.
where do you live? Many people in my state work two jobs, if their wages are too low in the first job. The only people I personally know who take government handouts - free lunch for their kid, rental assistance, food stamps and MaineCare are Republicans who tell me, when I ask if they will vote for President Obama, snarl "I'd never vote for a librul!"
I love the way tea people use monikers like motherland1 thinking it makes them look patriotic. Then all they do is bash this great country and pray for it to economically fail. All it does is make you look foolish, and angry. No true patriot would bash this great country that way.
How ironic, the same issue that got Obama elected will probably be the same that gets him out of office.
I'm ready for the usual LIbs. (Feisty, Insanity, the talking horse) and the rest of the way out left. Go ahead and attack me as you attack all the others that do not follow your pathetic Idolizing of Humans.
I most be getting to you all, LOL
You "most" be getting to us? Where's your grammar? In the old folks home?
sorry concerned, you are not getting to me, and you are not "most" to me at any rate. Hope and change are working very well for me and my working/middle class family - thanks so much for asking, I never dreamed you'd actually care!
See that's the thing with you tea people Koch republicans, when you say you must (not most) be getting to us, what it really means is we are getting to you. You see I as most Americans know when you tea people say something, it means you're trying to project on us what you are really feeling, or when you say the Democrats are doing something bad or not doing something good, it means that's what you tea people are doing. See when you don't really have anything to talk about, you try to project your bad habits (lies) and anger on someone else.
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees;
please note that Swiss Bank account Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he was against the war.
Promoting the draft, while Americans were dying, he skipped out, then says he wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is his way of management.
Some may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and should not be given anything or elected for anything.
For those who are not old enough to remember the military draft, it was a mandatory commitment for two years that was implemented during the Viet Nam War. If your number was called, you went and served like it or not. Young people may say, I wouldn't go and they can't make me, think again.
This is what Romney promoted as if he were a "responsible citizen", then he left his fellow citizens to serve and some died for us and him. I am ashamed of him as I am retired military member, and forget about representing our country Mr. Romney.
I am one of the Military members who are against Romney, and against his bid for the presidency.