Obama visits Baltimore, tries to turn focus to efforts to help middle class

WaPo ^ | 5/17/13 | David Nakamura

[Nachum]

BALTIMORE — President Obama insisted Friday that he is focused on improving the lives of middle-class Americans, despite being buffeted in Washington by a trio of controversies that have threatened to distract him from his second-term agenda. Capping one of the most difficult weeks of his tenure, Obama left the Beltway for this city 40 miles north to try to change the subject from the problems of his administration and refocus attention on his efforts to create middle-class jobs. He toured an elementary school, manufacturing plant

[informavoracious]

Well, if the only thing you have to worry about from the IRS is how fast your “earned income tax giveaway” is going to make it to your mailbox, Obama’s still your man.

[jimbo123]

New talking points are out to the liberal media:

Use the word “controversies” not “scandals”.

Deliberate instructions have been given.

[exDemMom]

He could start by adopting conservative policies.

Until then, I’m not convinced he cares a whit about the middle class.

[DooDahhhh]

He does not have the smarts to figure out the first part of your post.

[DooDahhhh]

They have already audited me. I have never been audited until now; pay my taxes on time, etc. And now they want to know why a 68 yo woman is making less. What? I did join a tea party web site. Could that be it?? And , of course freerepublic in1998. I am sure they think they are on to something.

[Windflier]

I’m sure Hussein’s solution will be Martial Law and a real nasty dictatorship.

Good luck with that, while 100,000,000 Americans are holding an estimated 300,000,000 firearms.

[Graewoulf]

Having watched this morning’s US House Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Obama’s IRS, the thought occurred to me that there can be a strong case made for Obama’s IRS rapidly becoming a Domestic Terrorist Organization. A Middle Class, SELECTIVE Domestic Terrorist Organization, of course.

[Venturer]

Did he fly Air Force One from Andrews to BWI?
That’s about 50 miles I guess.

By the way the best thing Obama could do for the Middle Class is to resign.

[jersey117]

Blah blah blah. Another day, another state, another speech. Who cares?

[Standing Wolf]

He’s just celebrating the new rain tax.

[ronnie raygun]

The middleclass.................is this catch phrase still around?

[RHS Jr]

I believe you’re so right but it is getting done. I think Hussein’s to busy vacationing, destroying US (his natural enemy), enriching his bosses and minions, and CYA to have any academic thoughts about inflation and it’s effects. The brain and foot work is being done by kapos and useful idiots but Hussein is still the POTUS and responsible for it; Hussein sets the tone and people that don’t serve Hussein as if he were a demigod get canned. The majority of Congressional Democrats, media, professors, etc, must be stupid but they are steam-rolling US.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I heard parts of this crap. That Barry sure is a funny guy. You can’t believe a thing he says.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wait a sec, here. He appointed his crack VP to head the Middle Class Task Force in January 2009, so the middle class should be all fixed up and fit as a fiddle by now. Did the underling fail? Why is the boss stepping in? Is President Passerby going to do something?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ummm, doesn’t Baltimore simply have an underclass and some rich people? j/k

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[SevenofNine]

Hey Bender so Bendict is a Good Khan or he sucks LOL!

[Bender2]

Re: Hey Bender so Bendict is a Good Khan or he sucks

Cumberbatch is no Ricardo Montalbán by any stretch... but he is a pretty good bad guy and he is set up to come back down the pike.

I tell you, Seven, Bendy, Benedict just does not have the perfectly sculptured pecs... to be an effective Khan.

Now, now, Ricardo. Did those... really get you laid that much more?

Truthfully, I did expect these bad boys... to get me way more trim that they actually did--

[Army Air Corps]

Can Cumberbatch say “Corinthian Leather” in a suave, macho way?

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Ummm, doesn’t Baltimore simply have an underclass and some rich people? j/k

Ding, Ding, Ding, I think we have a winner.

[Bender2]

Re: Can Cumberbatch say “Corinthian Leather” in a suave, macho way?

Well, let us see what... is what--

Gee Mr. Peabody, what historical era... are we going back to this time?

1978, Sherman, to see how the new Khan... measures up to the old Khan. Flip the switch, if you please?

Wow, we're here in 1978. Who... is that?

The new Khan... Sherman.

The 1978 Vauxhall Magnum... is superb transportation--

That allows one... to pick up the pretty birds--

And surround them with an interior of rich, unsurpassed Newcastle... Naugahyde!

That's pretty lame... isn't it, Mr. Peabody?

Never make a decision before seeing... the opposition and in this case, the old Khan.

The 1978 Chrysler Cordoba, a masterful... design--

With an interior of rich, unsurpassed Corinthian... Leather--

Wow! That was really, really... fantastic, wasn't it, Mr. Peabody?

AND, in the Wrath of Khan my pecs are also made of rich, unsurpassed Corinthian... Leather!

Well, until that... it was--