Posted on 06/28/2011 1:32:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DAVENPORT, Iowa— Preparations continue for President Obama's visit to the Alcoa plant on Tuesday. That's where he'll talk about growing jobs with a plan to jump-start manufacturing.
But this trip, he's also crashing the party for Republicans ready to oust him.
The queen of the Tea Party was the toast of Waterloo on Monday. As Iowa native Rep. Michele Bachmann enters the presidential race, the Minnesota Republican calls herself a bold choice in 2012.
"We cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama," she said.
Bachmann is tapping early momentum. She's running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in the latest Des Moines Register poll. And 2008 V.P. candidate Sarah Palin comes to Pella, Iowa, on Tuesday. That's where she'll unveil a new documentary.
"She was the CEO of 25,000 employees," one participant said in the trailer for the film.
While Republicans dominate Iowa with an anti-Obama campaign, the president knows all about political opportunities in Iowa. It launched his journey to the White House in 2008.
"It took us eight years to get into this mess," said Davenport Mayor and Obama supporter Bill Gluba. "It's going to take a number of years to get out of it. It looks like we've turned the corner."
With the Iowa Caucuses about seven months away, the Hawkeye state is back in the political spotlight. It's a time when this national race seems very close to home.
Democrats view the president's visit as a chance to tout his Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. He's using Alcoa as a role model that's growing jobs and stimulating the economy. Local Republicans, however, view the visit as just a campaign stop in his re-election bid.
"I wish the president would stay back in Washington and work on creating more of those jobs and work on stimulating the economy rather than traveling to Iowa," said Judy Davidson, chairwoman of Scott County Republicans.
Politics in Iowa that's just about ready to fire up.
Yeah, out of the ditch and over the cliff.
If we have turned any corners it’s despite, not because of, anything that Obama has done. And I am predicted a massive crowd in Pella manana... where Obama isn’t.
Obama stole the American Dream.
The only people who will see bomama are the poor workers trapped in the Alcoa plant. And I bet they ain’t none too thrilled about it either.
Gluba is a fool. While Bush eeked out a victory there in 2004, Iowa will go for Obama in 2012 anyway. I doubt even "favorite daughter" status of having Bachmann on the ticket would sway it.
Of course, I'm growing more pessimistic, not less, as the race takes shape.
But this trip, he's also crashing the party for Republicans ready to oust him.
Let him crash it. It'll be a great contrast, O'Bama prattling on about all the mythical jobs he "created", with his usual subtle message that America's best days are behind her, and Bachman's upbeat conservative vision for turning the country around. The American voter will only be fooled for so long and Dumbo has used up any credibility he may have had.
How can you be getting more pessimistic? We are seeig a massive new downturn because of Obama’s policies in the last 60 days. If this continues, he’s done.
Obama will go after the desperate unemployed vote by offering a few goodies. By then it will be over 20% to go with his 30% base of hard core communists.
Methinks, as outlandish as it may sound, that the AnointedIdiot is reacting to Bachman’s announcement to run for POTUS. =.=
And the bussed in SEIU thugs.
Stupid Obama, if you don’t know how to jump-start a car, how the hell do you expect to jump-start the economy?
“The queen of the Tea Party”
Wait a second, I thought that was Michelle Bachmann, how DARE THEY SAY THAT!
How are those Alcoa workers going to have jobs after the electric bills triple thanks to obozo?
Pray for America
Two and a half years and a 100 golf games later, he’s ready to jump start the economy. LOL
“It looks like we’ve turned the corner.”
I wonder what planet that guy lives on???
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