Obama at this event reminded me of the Obama in the last days of his 2008 campaign - fiery, candid, funny and dead-serious all at the same time. The audience rocked, too.
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CSPAN blurb:
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/07/30/HP/R/36255/President+Auto+Companies+Have+Added+55K+Jobs+Since+Last+June.aspx
President Obama spoke from a Chrysler plant in Detroit earlier today,
where he discussed the auto industry’s progress since the federal bailout
last year. He referred to the Commerce Department quarterly report on the GDP,
specifically highlighting that auto companies added 55,000 jobs since last June.
The White House indicated in a report yesterday that a failure to rescue GM and
Chrysler would have led to the loss of nearly 1.1 million jobs. In the
strongest year of industry job growth since 1999, they have added 55,000 jobs
since the bankruptcies. The president has reassured taxpayers that
“we are going to get back all the money that we invested in those car companies.”