Gee, where did he come up with that idea?
Posted on 01/22/2011 4:58:24 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama to Press Centrist Agenda in His Address By JACKIE CALMES and JEFF ZELENY
WASHINGTON — President Obama will outline an agenda for “winning the future” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, striking a theme of national unity and renewal, as he stresses the need for both government spending in key areas and an attack on the budget deficit.
Mr. Obama previewed the themes in a video e-mailed on Saturday evening to Democratic activists who had helped in his election campaign, mostly liberals. But the video made plain that his speech would be geared more broadly toward the political center, to independent voters and business owners and executives alienated by the expansion of government and the partisan legislative fights of the past two years.
“My number one focus,” he said, “is going to be making sure that we are competitive, and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future.”
Advisers said the president would describe five “pillars” for ensuring America’s competitiveness and economic growth: innovation, education, infrastructure, deficit reduction and reforming government.
The annual address on Tuesday, with much of the nation watching, will pull together themes suggested by Mr. Obama over the past two months as he has moved rapidly following the midterm elections to retool his presidency.
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Memo to Obama: Creating more government jobs won't make us more competetive.
For those who remember their Stalinist history, this will be Obama’s “Dizzy With Success”, a tactical, rhetorical retreat before a fresh offensive.
Who cares what he says, he lies every time he opens his mouth?
We all know who he is along with the media.
Even the so called conservative Fox panel who time and time again end up falling in love with his tele prompter while the nation goes up in flames.
This is good news: Hussein thinks saying “LET’S SPEND MORE MONEY!” is centrist.
America doesn’t.
Epic Fail.
Gee, where did he come up with that idea?
Scam after scam after lies after lies.
You might as well call your next door pyramid scheme and you will get better service.
Their scams or kids speak even better and have even better stories than Obama.
Sorry you already had that chance.
Get to the back of the bus.
We’re getting a new driver.
YEah, 5 pillars or code words for mafias where you are not supposed to get high on the goods you sell.
What centrist agenda??????
And he will demand more Socialist spending to fund new government programs for every one of his "pillars".
Having grabbed great chunks of the economy and put them under the heavy hand of agencies and czars, he can afford to relax a bit and appear to reach across the aisle.
Nope. Google the term "5 pillars" and almost always it's a reference to the five pillars of Islam. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Indeed. How many times has Obama claimed his number 1 focus was jobs and/or the economy? Yet the unemployment rate remains at nearly 10 percent.
His focus is the problem. Get government out of the way.
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
— RR
If the Republicans give him a standing ovation for any of the lies he’s going to tell, I think I’ll puke.
Idaho is 95% white and Hussein Baraka, son of a communist black muslim father and communist whore white mother who only procreated with black muslims, has yet to visit the state as POTUS.
Idaho is only one of 12 states not visited by the Kenyan muzzie in chief.
President Obama's visit to Kokomo, Ind., this week brought him back to a small Midwestern town that he visited once before in April 2008 and to a state that Obama has visited at least four times since his stunning win there two years ago.
But while Indiana has gotten plenty of love from the president, there are still a number of states that Obama has not visited during his term, the majority of them firmly in Republican territory.
According to The Washington Post's POTUS Tracker, which keeps tabs on the president's daily schedule, there are a dozen states that Obama has yet to visit as president. Eleven of those were won by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by wide margins in 2008 -- including eight that McCain won by double-digits -- meaning the president has not visited half of the 22 states that McCain carried two years ago.
The list includes Oklahoma, McCain's second-best state and the only one in the country where Obama lost every county. But it also includes Vermont, Obama's second-best state and one of several where he won every county. (With the exception of Vermont, Obama has visited all of the 27 other states he carried in 2008.)
In addition, of the five states that trended more Republican in 2008 than in 2004 -- Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Oklahoma and West Virginia -- Obama has visited only Louisiana and West Virginia.
The states Obama has not visited are concentrated in two main regions of the country: the Great Plains, including North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma; and the South, including Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Two Rocky Mountain States -- Idaho and Utah -- have not hosted the president. Vermont is the only northeastern state that makes the list.
Some states, by contrast, have seen a flurry of presidential visits over the past 22 months. Since becoming president, Obama has made at least 12 separate visits to Ohio, nine to Pennsylvania and Florida, eight to Illinois and seven to California.
It's worth noting that Obama's travel schedule, especially over the past several months, has been dictated in large part by this year's midterm elections. Obama himself vowed to stump for candidates in states where he thought he could be most helpful, and the White House deployed him judiciously over the course of the campaign. Most of the states where Obama has made multiple visits had Democrats were locked in high-stakes, competitive Senate or gubernatorial races.
Asked about the states Obama has yet to visit, White House spokesman Josh Earnest noted that many of them simply didn't have races this year that rose to the level of presidential involvement. Earnest also noted that, in covering 38 states so far, the president has visited more than 1.5 states per month during his 22 months in office.
"That's a decent pace, but I do think that the president will spend even more time outside of Washington in the next two years," the official said.
He will be campaigning not governing all year and in this speech..
Centralist Agenda’s always seem to end drifting toward the left.
Your sellin sh@@ I aint buyin
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