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Posted on 08/14/2011 2:28:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
President Barack Obama leaves the White House on Monday for a three-day bus trip, talking job creation at small towns across the Midwest in hopes of distancing himself from the "partisan brinksmanship" he says has poisoned the economy.
The trip isn't likely to be without bumps. Polls find that the partisan feud over raising the debt ceiling, the stock market gyrations and a stubborn unemployment rate have left Americans more pessimistic about the economy and their future than at any time this year. Republicans already have accused Obama of mixing policy with politics by barnstorming in the battleground region - at taxpayer expense.
But White House advisers said it was a chance for the president - who spent most of last month trapped in Washington with lawmakers blaming each other for the debt impasse - to hit the reset button and connect with ordinary Americans in a bus that could roll into small towns, rather than Air Force One.
"Democrats, independents and Republicans expect to see their president of the United States outside of Washington, D.C., out from behind the podium, spending time talking to the American people in their communities," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Obama appears to be trying out a campaign theme by blaming Congress - without a direction mention of Republicans - for the bitterness that led to an eleventh-hour debt limit agreement, and Earnest said the president was expecting to hear more anger on the road.
"The president does anticipate that he'll detect a little frustration about the dysfunction in Congress, and the strident position of some in Congress to put their partisan affiliation ahead of the country," he said.
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Can you think of ANYONE less qualified?
Uuuuhhh, seems like I remember very early in his Reign, Dear Leader proclaimed: “I won....the rest of you get to the back of the bus...” or something to that effect...now it’s someone else’s fault...that is a bunch of stable hockey!
Yeah, CHANGE, like pennies to pay for your “peas” while I stuff down argula, ice cream, etc....
“...weight limits on most brides...” LOL!
He’ll have a lot of crickets in his audience....
Poor babynobama. Just absolutely chained to his desk in DC while those nasty Republicans take pot shots and the vicious Tea Party Terrorists run wild.
Shame on you for putting Bachmann on a par with Obama.
Can we stop bashing each other, please? We should be above that.
He's connecting with ordinary Americans in a bus?
And it rolled into Air Force One?
It should be called the ‘highway to hell’ tour. There’s a campaign song already written.
Seems to me he spent one heck of a lot of time out of Washington playing golf and on vacation. He could have used some of this time to 'connect' with us rubes...
The RATs oppose every bit of that, always have and will continue to do so.
if the Republican House continues its ‘my way or the highway’ approach, he will make sure the public knows who is standing in the way and why.”
Nice implied threat there. It appears "the public" already knows who to blame.
some of those people he my pass on his road trip are the very ones he complained still cling to their guns and their religion. The headwind I would love to hear he had to confront would be that of IMPEACHMENT for his several breaches of the Constitutional powers granted the Executive. Keep the change Barry -y’all out of gas.
I wish he would stay on the golf course!
Hey, thanks. Just thought of a great use for that in a graphic.
Like Nancy Pelosi, Obama will parachute past, pole vault over and go through the gate to where his lamebrain supporters and "vote your money into my pocket" supporters await the One.
I agree. How about a golfing across America tour?
A zero sponsored "Libyan freedomfighter".
Mad Max.
That’s the way he should be getting around....on a bus. Prefer that it be a public bus. Standing.
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