All Posts Tagged With: "economy"
Jobs and Opportunity Tours to be launched by White House
President Barack Obama is returning to the jobs issue by launching a group of Opportunity and Middle Class Jobs Tours that will begin on Thursday in the state of Texas, said a White House spokesperson. Obama plans to visit areas that are growing to better understand what has been done to help them with their [...]
Obama Campaigning for Fiscal Cliff
President Barack Obama has taken to the road on a campaign in his words for the middle class, suggesting that the Republicans could spoil America’s Christmas by allowing the country to go over the fiscal cliff. The road trip by the President will be to Pennsylvania and a factory that manufactures Tinkertoys. The trip has [...]
Obama Invites Romney for Lunch
Less than a month ago, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were bitter foes during a close and difficult campaign for the presidency. However, today the two will share lunch in the White House. The idea is for the two to eye the mutual interests they have rather than the differences that defined the presidential [...]
Republican’s Bash Incomplete Obama over comment
On Tuesday, Republicans pounced on President Barack Obama’s comment that he would grade himself incomplete during his first term with regard to fixing the U.S. economy. Obama was in Virginia holding a rally prior to heading to Charlotte, North Carolina and the Democratic National Convention. The Republicans are trying to shrink the presidential race into [...]
Obama Rallying Young Voters
While the Republicans were busy making noise in Tampa, President Barack Obama was visiting important swing-state universities rallying young voters and watching Hurricane Isaac. On Tuesday, President Obama was busy campaigning in the scorching heat rallying universities students in Iowa. At Iowa State University Obama started by saying, the country’s thoughts were with everyone in [...]
Obama and Romney Battle for Vital States
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney attacked each other over the economy and women’s rights. They both try to win over critical states to get the edge during the upcoming November election. Romney told supporters in Iowa that their state was like a second home for him. He accused President Obama of mismanaging the [...]
Obama Campaign Faces Financial Woes
After a month in which President Obama’s re-election campaign picked up steam, it was hit by hard economic realities. Poor manufacturing data was released this week. A weak jobless report is likely to be released this Friday. These are reminders that President Obama has a lot of work to do to convince voters that he [...]
Romney Says Obama’s Support for Increased Debt is Dangerous
Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee said on Tuesday that President Obama’s support of increasing the federal debt would put the already fragile economy on a very disastrous course. Romney tried to portray himself as a fiscal responsibility defender, while highlighting his opponent as reckless. Romney is calling for steep spending cuts and disciplined [...]
Obama Goes to Chicago to Raise Funds and Support
President Barack Obama goes back home to Chicago on Wednesday to raise more funds for his campaign and get more support for his reelection. He expected to raise more than $2 million from his longtime supporters. The president needs more money as he starts off the 2012 campaign year. The trip to Chicago comes as [...]
President Obama Goes on a Vacation as Nation’s Economy Drops
President Barack Obama is scheduled to go to Martha’s Vineyard next week for a vacation as the country’s economy is suffering. Fourteen million people are unemployed, millions are losing money in the stock market and the nation’s AAA bond rating was downgraded. There are political analysts, academics and authors who said that the vacation is [...]
