December 4, 2009 1:38 PM
Obama: why the constant campaigning?
This has got to be the most expensive administration in history - spending our money to keep the Campaigner-in-Chief in the news day after day after day. And partying big time week after week.
Why can't he just stay in the White House like other presidents and do his job?
Why did he go to West Point to make his Afghanistan speech? Simple. He was using the cadets as props to give him some military gravitas. Other presidents have made such speeches from the White House.
Then yesterday was the "Jobs Summit" - what a joke. The only jobs Obama wants to create are government jobs. The public sector is the only one still growing and also getting raises. It's very obvious when you live in the DC area.
Today, it's the Obama Listening Tour:
Talk Is Cheap, Mr. President, Where are the Jobs? By Andrea TantarosThe reality of this listening tour is that the one who's supposed to be listening appears painfully tone deaf.
President Obama today kicks off what his administration is calling his "White House to Main Street" road show. First stop on the listening tour: Allentown, PA, coincidentally, my hometown. Obama is headed to the Lehigh Valley because, as Billy Joel pointed out, they closed all the factories down and it's still getting hard to stay.
Joel wrote that song in the eighties, but the economic hardship for valley residents has returned. In spite of the passing of a $787 billion stimulus package by Obama and Pennsylvania Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, both Democrats, unemployment has gone from bad to worse.
Stimulus funds were funneled to the area, yet the region is still shedding jobs. Pennsylvania's unemployment as of October was 8.4%, and unemployment for the Allentown area was a depressing 9.3%, one point below the national average.
If you thought the Washington, D.C. "jobs summit" was political posturing, his backdrop in Pennsylvania is equally as orchestrated.
Read more at Fox Forum
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Comments
Glenn Beck played a clip Wednesday of Howard Dean's speech in which he more famously said that the debate over capitalism and socialism is over. He also spoke of how the Democrats have finally figured out how to not only constantly campaign for offices, but also to constantly campaign ideology. They're at it full force at in jaw-droppingly comprehensive scope to "transform" America and keep Democrats in power.
Posted by: Marian | December 4, 2009 2:40 PM
It is very frustrating. There are no jobs because those who might hire are waiting, waiting to see what new taxes and regulation might come along. Noone wants to hire someone that they might not be able to afford in a couple of months. And the President and his people are clueless. Haven't any of them ever held any real jobs?
Posted by: Eva | December 5, 2009 12:07 AM
