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Posts Tagged ‘eastwood
03
Sep
12
This and That
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The Oval: President Obama celebrated working people on this Labor Day, but also blitzed Mitt Romney’s economic plan with football metaphors.
“There’s a flag on the play,” Obama told crowd of auto workers in Toledo, Ohio, at one point.
Riffing on Romney’s weekend claim that the economy needs “a new coach” in the White House, Obama said that “the problem is that everybody’s already seen his economic playbook … we know what’s in it.”
The “first down” is tax cuts for the wealthy that will lead to tax hikes for the middle class, Obama said. “Second down” is an audible” ending financial and environmental regulations. Romney’s “third down” is a “Hail Mary” of cuts that would “end Medicare as we know it.”
Obama’s suggestion for the fourth down of the Romney plan: “Punt it away! … It won’t work! It won’t win the game!
“You don’t need that coach,” he said of Romney. “That’s a losing season!”
More here
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Scott High School in Toledo, September 3
03
Sep
12
Rise and Shine
Des Moines, September 1 (Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America)
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Today (all times ET)
12:30: President Obama delivers remarks at a campaign event at Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio.
3:10: Departs Toledo
5:25: Arrives in New Orleans
6:00: Receives a briefing at Emergency Operations Center, Saint John the Baptist Parish, La.
6:50: Tours damage caused by Hurricane Isaac
7:20: Delivers a statement at Saint John the Baptist Parish, La.
8:15: Departs New Orleans
10:45: Arrives at the White House
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Des Moines, September 1 (Scout Tufankjian for Obama for America)
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01
Sep
12
Rise and Shine
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Today (all times ET):
11:0: President Obama departs the White House
1:35: Arrives Des Moines, Iowa
2:20: Delivers remarks at a campaign event at Living History Farms, Urbandale, Iowa
4:25: Departs Des Moines
5:10: Arrives Sioux City, Iowa
7:30: Delivers remarks at a campaign event at Morningside College, Sioux City
9:20: Departs Sioux City
10:40: Arrives Denver
(Will double-check the schedule, not 100% sure about the times)
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Des Moines Register: Barack Obama’s election-year effort to rock the vote in Iowa continues this afternoon in Urbandale, where he’ll literally be rockin’ the suburbs.
The president’s second visit to the state this week will resemble a summer music festival, treating an outdoor crowd at Living History Farms not only to a political speech but also performances by indie band the National and alternative-rock hero Chris Cornell.
More here (thanks Dotster)
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NYT: Republicans in Texas and Florida have been in the vanguard of the pernicious, widespread efforts to suppress voting by Hispanics and blacks. Fortunately, federal courts are seeing these efforts for what they are: a variation on the racist laws that disenfranchised millions before those tactics were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act.
A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday unanimously rejected Texas’s voter ID law, which required court approval to take effect. The court described the law, known as SB 14, as “the most stringent in the country.”
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31
Aug
12
This and That
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President Obama talks with troops backstage before participating in a roundtable discussion at Fort Bliss in El Paso (Pete Souza)
Fort Bliss, August 31
President Barack Obama bids farewell to Gen. Lloyd Austin III at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, August 31. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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