A Campaigner, not a leader as President - The 'economy tour':It happens every time his polls drop

am thinker ^ | 7/24/13 | Silvio Canto, Jr.

[bestintxas]

It happens every spring or maybe every summer or maybe every time that the Obama approvals start dropping.

Like Willie Nelson, President Obama is "on the road again". Get ready for another economic tour - another round of speeches about how his agenda is tied up by that GOP that does not care about poor people, children, grandmothers and everybody else.

Hopefully he won't use that bus "Made in Canada" this time around.

We just learned that President Obama will unveil his new economic agenda:

"With major battles looming in the fall over the federal budget and the debt ceiling, President Obama is trying to regain the initiative, embarking on a campaign-style tour of the Midwest this week to lay out his agenda for reinvigorating the nation's economy, administration officials said Sunday. "

Does this guy know that he's been president for the last 5 years? or that he passed a "stimulus" in the spring of 2009?

President Obama is doing a little more distraction than unveiling anything new about the economy:

1) The last jobs report was mixed to say the least. Morton Zuckerman is not impressed:

"The longest and worst recession since the end of World War II has been marked by the weakest recovery from any U.S. recession in that same period."

2) Gasoline prices are going up and that's squeezing middle class incomes:

"The economic recovery of summer 2013 is playing out in an all-too-familiar way for poor and middle-class Americans: Gas prices are up, growth is slowing, and there still aren't nearly enough new jobs to employ the almost 12 million people seeking work." (Washington Post)

[bestintxas]

I am reminded of the scenes from Evita of the "World Tour" where she goes around Europe throwing speeches to the stupefied citizens. Only wish, like Evita, Obama finally gets pelted with garbage by those people who wise up to what he's been throwing their way.....

[traditional1]

He will promise more taxpayer money taken to hand out to blacks, newly-Amnestied Hispanics, Unions, and his co-Muslims.

[Venturer]

Wonder what ever happened to those two—million dollar buses.

[bert]

The fact is, he is a lame duck and can do nothing to improve the economy. He can order things by edict but those actions will be taken as further actions problematic to making a profit.

The best thing he could do, a positive economic action, would be to resign.

[blueunicorn6]

President Pee Wee is a one-trick pony.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sadly far too many of our fellow countrymen are ready and eager to buy into this “Two Americas” crap.

Would have taken over our political discourse long ago had it had a less revolting salesman.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A short preview...
“Put America Back to Work”
“Crumbling infrastructure”
“Bridges falling down”
“Invest in education”
“Green energy...more federal investment to create more jobs”
“Pathway to citizenship for those hard working people in the shadows”
“Nationalized health care is bending the cost curve downward and creating new jobs in the health industry”

Stale, hackneyed, trite, and banal. All the signs of a little mind that will not or simply cannot learn from empirical experience.

[justa-hairyape]

The community agitator went bust on his Justice for Trayvon riots. Now time to tell the unemployed how much better he has made their lives.