Barack Obama Back on the Road, Where He's at His Hope-iest
If you feel like Barack Obama seemed a lot more inspiring on the campaign trail than he currently does inside the Oval Office, you're not the only one.
That's why the brand new president is heading right back out onto the campaign trail, to campiagn for, well, the stimulus package, I guess (whatever — just so long as it gives him a change to recapture that Hopey feeling)…
Campaigning for action in the most dire terms, President Barack Obama said Monday that if Congress does not quickly pass an economic stimulus package, the nation will slip into a crisis so deep that "we may be unable to reverse" it.
"We can't afford to wait. We can't wait to see and hope for the best," Obama said in Elkhart, Ind., a community reeling in job losses during the recession that has defined Obama's young presidency. "We can't posture and bicker and resort to the same failed ideas that got us in into this mess in the first place."…
"You know, look, it's not perfect," the president conceded. "But it is the right size, it is the right scope. Broadly speaking, it has the right priorities to create jobs that will jump-start our economy and transform the economy for the 21st century."
It is fully believed that every one of the zero congresspeople in attendance will now be motivated to vote for the bill.
And he's expected to gather up twice as many votes when he speaks in Florida tomorrow.
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In Obama's defense, Elkhart is the perfect place to pitch the stimilus bill: 15.3% unemployement (3rd highest in the country), in the "heartland", and they voted 56% for McCain.
And you Sir, believe that someone gives a rat's ass about your opinion on a COMEDY site.
Sarcasm is a terrible thing to waste.
Dennis,
It saddens me to see that not only did you drink the cool-aid, but that you and the President can not draw the line between an election and being President. Use your space to ask our President to get off the campaign trail and get to work. President Obama's tenor, language, tone, rhetoric, and approach to a terrible bill are only the beginnig of a long and troubled term in office. You and lot of uninformed people truly believe that 49% of the population paying 102% of the taxes is right. You believe that something for nothing is spelndid as long as you aren't the ones paying for it. You believe that just because someone says "Change you can Believe in" that he can and will actually do something for your benefit. What you seem to forget is that the people that foot the bill for your hand out mentality will not stand and take it. While you sling away at the rich or big business you forget that pushed to far, we will quit earning and/or leave. Socialism, while it sounds wonderful for people that don't like to work, doesn't work, never has and never will. Good luck,
John
Sugar Land, Tx