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LAS VEGAS -- It may have been the small, echoing gym filled with 2,700 yelling people, but at today’s campaign event, President Barack Obama felt more “fired up, ready to go” than he’s seemed in a while.
Today’s focus, like the two events yesterday, was education. But the president allowed himself to get a bit more expressive when talking about the importance of teachers.
Isaac Brekken / AP
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, in North Las Vegas, Nev.
And while the actual content of the last two days' education-driven speeches hasn’t been incredibly different, the president’s tone seemed affected by the raucous crowd responses, including a sustained “four more years” chant to overpower a heckler who ended up being ejected from the event by Secret Service.
And this crowd also ended up drowning the president himself out as he finished up his speech, almost yelling: “We've got more veterans we've got to help. We've got more doors of opportunity we've got to open up to every single American. That's why I'm asking for a second term."
The president has spoken about his fifth grade teacher in the past, but bringing her up today allowed him to also put a personal spin on painting presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney as extremist on the subject of education.
Speaking at campaign rally in Las Vegas, President Obama says Mitt Romney's spending cuts would cripple schools while his tax cuts shower more breaks on millionaires. Watch his entire speech.
“The right teacher can change a child's life forever. Look, I know this from personal experience. When I was in fifth grade, I had a teacher named Mabel Hefty. That was her name. And she was a great teacher," Obama started into the story. "I had just come back from living a few years overseas with my mom and wasn't sure how I'd fit in. And she noticed that, Ms. Hefty. And she took me under her wing, and she made me feel like I had something to say, and that I had some talent."
"Gov. Romney says we've got enough teachers, we don't need any more. You know, the way he talks about them, it seems as if he thinks these are a bunch of nameless government bureaucrats that we need to cut back on. Those are his words,” the president added.
The president's latest campaign jaunt took him to Ohio and Nevada -- two important swing states -- to press the case for education as many students get ready to head back to school. His campaign released complementary TV ads to additionally pummel Romney on education cuts.
"I've got a question for Governor Romney. How many teachers' jobs are worth another tax cut for millionaires and billionaires?" Obama said Wednesday, using more pointed language toward his Republican challenger. "How many kids in Head Start are worth a tax cut for somebody like me who doesn't need it?"
But according to NBC’s Garrett Haake, Romney was ready with an educational response during an event Wednesday in Iowa.
“If you want to invest in young people, let me tell you what you need to do, Mr. President," Romney said. "You need to make sure that our K-through-12 schools are getting better, all right, that's number one. Not just talk, but actually getting better."
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74 more days and we can give Obummer his walking papers. I for 1 will be watching the election results. Big celebration if Romney wins, will turn into a wake if Obummer the clown stays. Death spiral of a nation.
2700 people? Is that all the communist charlitan is able to draw now? What happened to the throngs of zombies that came out in force for this clown in 2008? There is nothing good about Obama or his minions. Many of the Democrats are no longer Democrats but are simply communists who stole the name and are now stealing the party. They will turn the Democratic party into a front for the communist party just as the big unions have become. The November election will decide the fate of this country and if Obama is reelected we are down the tubes. Here's an interesting read from the American Thinker for those who can still think for themselves. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/will_obama_keep_power_by_any_means_necessary.html
When the Dept. of Education was formed in 1978 the US ranked in the top 10 countries for math and science skills, we are now 27th. We can't keep throwing money at some government bureaucrat's idea of education and expect a good outcome. The government can't legislate "smart". Dis-mantle the DOE and let the states determine how to educate their children. It'll save tons of money, and improve the education of our children.
REPUBLICAN S WILL DESTROY WHAT HAS BEEN ACOMPLISHED OVER THE YEARS AND GIVE IT ALL TO WALL STREET!!!
REPUBLICANS TALK!! TALK!!
Romney Quote "You need to make sure that our K-through-12 schools are getting better, all right, that's number one. Not just talk, but actually getting better."
ROMNEY HAS A LOT OF TALK, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE SCHOOLS BETTER????????????
ROMNEY IS JUST ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BLOWING HOT AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!
The education President (Stinky, aka BO) took a picture using their smart selves to spell O-I-HO. It's going to be the backdrop at the DNC in Charlotte. It will be used by the disbarred serial rapist and sexual deviant that's the keynote speaker when he introduces Sandra Fluke and she comes out from inside the podium. This time, they're going to leave some towels in there to avoid any embarassing presidue on her dress when she speaks (or gargles and swallows, whatever it is she'll be doing). The introduction song will go something like this.....
Dumb Holder, and Clinton's cumming, sitting happily on his bone.
This summer we'll hear her humming, giving head singing O-I-HO.
Gotta go down on it. Hillary's starting to frown, Huma's eating as fast as she can go.
What if you knew her, and found her spread on the ground? How can you listen to that Ho.......?