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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA visited the swing state of Ohio yesterday, the day before the Democratic party’s convention.
The convention will take place today in Charlotte, North Caroline, and both the president and his wife Michelle will speak at it.
Speaking to union workers in Toledo yesterday, Obama told them:
I need you to stand with me, Ohio.
Speaking about his opponent in the presidential race, Republican nominee Mitt Romney, he said that “when Governor Romney had the chance to let you in on the secret sauce of job creation, he didn’t offer you a single new idea”.
He said that instead, Romney would be offering “the same policies sticking it to middle class in the last few years”. Using a sporting metaphor, he said:
The problem is everyone’s already seen his economic playbook. We know what’s in it.
The BBC reports that Obama used the slogan “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive” during his speech. He said he stood with American workers and American manufacturing, mentioning the auto industry’s comeback.
The New York Times said this was the fourth time that President Obama had spent Labor Day with union workers in a swing state.
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Ye cause he was right there beside them for the last 4 years. 23 million people out of work, unemployment still over 8% a 16 trillion dollar deficit, the worst economic recovery since WW2. All Americans need to do is ask themselves “Am I better off than I was 4 years ago”, I think most will find the answer is no, time to let Obama go.
Granted Obama didn’t do all the things he pledged but he seems more level
headed than Romney & Ryan. You look at the mess the Bush administration left, sure Lehman Brothers collapsed on Bush’s watch, and maybe, just maybe, Obama didn’t realise the scale of the mess he was left with. The Republicans will plunge America back 20 years ago. You only have to look at many Republican senators views on Women. How many gaffes has Mitt made while on a tour to Europe? A terrible candidate from an even worse Party.
Some of the most sacred Republican priorities, including war spending and tax cuts for the rich, are responsible for the majority of that growing debt.
actually if you take away the debt that was built up between 2000 to 2008 there is very little debt left. (a study done by the Economist last week) Obama inherited a poison chalice, it still is poisoned but less so than when he picked it up
Actually I think you’ll find Obama has added 5 trillion dollars to the deficit since he took office. In a time of economic trouble he has spent more money than any of his predecessors did in office (in just 1 term). All he does is run around blaming the last guy, whatever happens to “the buck stops here”, he had total control of the hose and senate for the first 2 years of his presidency and did nothing other than the failed stimulus which added more debt than jobs!
The Republicans spent four years blocking any change or progress and blame Obama. Sounds just like politics here at home. The president is a potent symbol of the Great American Dream and the Republicans haven’t yet understood that they are now a minority for the first time in their country.
@Cian – Are you really that naive? Do you not think a large chunk of increased debt that his administration ‘Caused’ was due to bailing out banks? There wasn’t much debt from 2000 – 2008 because there wasn’t a banking crisis. But Bush’s administration laid the seeds that would cause this mess. You look at attempts to regulate the derivative market that was shot down by his lot? Two wars later, A banking crisis. Some Republicans should be in prison, never never mind re-elected.
@Mick You either missed or are choosing to ignore the first 2 years of his term where as i pointed out above he had complete and total control of the house and senate remember he rammed the $800 BILLION stimulus and Obamacare through.
Cian, have you had a look at Romney’s (more Ryan’s actually) proposed economic policies? I’m just wondering because you’ve dismissed Obama so quickly.
That’s a genuine question. I’m interested to know what you think.
and doherty and his ilk choose to ignore (“but probably missed”) 8 years of republican incompetence, war mongering, lining their own pockets etc, only good thing is their wont be a republican elected for the next 12 years, because every candidate they throw up are like, out of touch, outdated, Monty Python versions of republicans, LMFAO, and they have nothing to compete with Obama and then Hillary Clinton in 4 years, so boys get used to it
@Mick and cian. Firstly, republicans are not a minority. Secondly, Obama has taken on huge debt which actually dwarf’s what Bush did. Obama has delivered on absolutely nothing over the past 4 years. More social programs for the useless among us and nothing for the average person who works hard.
He’s seems to be a nice guy…but still no plan. Time to go.
Speaks for itself: http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4946/123691327524278.jpg
In the two years between day one and the Republicans taking over a majority – charges coming.
Since all their recorded Republican blocking – there’s a LOT, Google it – they have stopped further national progress.
Obama was crippled badly.
Thats NOT to say Obama has not made mistakes – he has, but in the end when it comes choice, the Democrat’s are certainly the lesser of two evils.
“Thats NOT to say Obama has not made mistakes – he has, but in the end when it comes choice, the Democrat’s are certainly the lesser of two evils.”
That’s too simplistic an approach to adopt and what will happen is that the state of the economy will decide the entire contest based on how things look November and who voters feel is better equipped at handling it. Sometimes the Democrats have the right candidate, sometimes they don’t.
Obama has made plenty of mistakes in my view (his drone policy is rephrehensible, not that Romney would likely be any different…) and I think Obamacare is a nice, expensive idea at exactly the wrong time. Romney and Paul aren’t perfect by any means, but neither are they wacko idiots some commentators here try to paint them as.
Obama the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.
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