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Obama takes latest jobs message to hard-hit Ohio
TweetCLEVELAND (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling voters in Ohio, wracked by high unemployment, that investments in clean-energy technologies will help boost the nation's economy.
Obama planned to use his visit Friday to test-drive an aggressive populist push on jobs, a top concern for voters across the country. The White House is shifting its message to emphasize the economy heading into fall elections expected to be difficult for Democrats.
Before Obama landed in Cleveland Friday, the state reported that its unemployment rate climbed even higher in December, to 10.9 percent from 10.6 percent the month before.
Obama was meeting with voters in the northeast part of Ohio, where steel mills have given way to rust.
A town hall session was on Obama's public schedule at Lorain County Community College, near Cleveland. He was last in the county before the state's March 2008 presidential primary, when he delivered a speech on the economy at a drywall factory that closed two months later.
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" President Barack Obama is telling voters in Ohio, wracked by high unemployment, that investments in clean-energy technologies will help boost the nation's economy."
It looks like Obama may be history after the 2012 elections . Clueless is on a roll decimating our industrial base for a green dream . High energy costs are not our dream . New technology doesn't eliminate the need for coal and steel . Yep, it is time to send Obama out to pasture !
Obama like Carter are both likable but that doesn't make them very good Presidents. It took awhile for the country to recover from what that peanut farmer did. I hope history doesn't repeat.
Talk,talk,talk = nothing done. Cutting taxes for business is a proven way to create jobs. He will not do so because it's the way republicans would fix the unemployment problem, and he couldn't let that happen (ego ).
Hey borylie the white house has been run by republicans an estimated 20 plus out of the last 30 odd yrs where have you been. And that wasn't enough time for them to get it right and fix as you say unemployment, this is not a new problem. What did they fix? And for all you wanna be politicians if you've got the right answers for what will work and what won't why in the hell aren't you guys in office making a difference for the country you claim to love so much. You already know why, armchair quarterbacks always stay seated.
Now what, you don't have Sarah Palin to pick on.
I knew the president was in Ohio when I saw his "limo" parked at R & R Mack today.