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Is Nero Obama Fiddling While Washington Burns: Wheels Came Off The Hope And Change Bus video and pictures
by Monica Davis
How does a president make a major speach to the American people and not talk about the banks and the massive national unemployment rate?
It didn’t take long for some of the nation’s national press nitpickers to call him out on it.
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….the speech didn’t really talk about either of those things. The Washington, D.C., metropolitan area has become an island of prosperity in an ailing country. But D.C. itself has an 8.9 percent unemployment rate even as it sits at the center of a metro-area unemployment rate of just 5.4 percent. For people who haven’t gone to college—the kind of people who live in the neighborhood where Obama was speaking—the unemployment rate is 20 percent. That’s a disaster. And while Obama talked about plenty of things that could help those unemployed families—subsidized health care
, better schools for their kids—he didn’t really talk about anything that would get them jobs. The biggest applause line of the speech was about raising the minimum wage
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The base of young people who helped put him in the White House are now openly skeptical of the president and many of his plans–particularly healthcare plans, and Obamacare. Media sources say he is bleedong out when it comes to support from millenials.
The new poll shows that Obama’s approval rating with 18- to 29-year-olds now stands at 41%, a dramatic 11-point drop from April. Fifty-four percent said they disapprove of the president’s performance MOREHERE
One columnest says the Obama team is circling the wagons, restricting press access and trrying to keep the Obama engine from exploding,
As the wheels come off the Barack Obama Hope and Change Bus, the White House is now restricting access to the very media that have done little but throw roses at his feet over the last five years. Many presidential “photo opportunities” now allow only an official White House photographer, causing the media to stir with “tensions” and write letters of protest. MOREHERE
