**** Heads Up: POTUS and VPOTUS Discuss Success of the "Auto Bailout," live 1:35pm EST ****

[Clio the Leo]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-and-vp-biden-speak-workers-chrysler-indiana-transmission-plant-ii

http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2

[Clio the Leo]

1. Related: "Indiana unemployment rate falls to 9.9% in October"

http://www.indystar.com/article/20101123/BUSINESS/311230008/Indiana-unemployment-rate-falls-to-9-9-in-October?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com|optionb|t

[Clio the Leo]

2. "Think Michael Jackson in Tokyo type screaming."

From pool report of kids' reax during Obama's brief visit to local school: "Think Michael Jackson in Tokyo type screaming."
http://twitter.com/#!/mikememoli/status/7139848964022272

Pity these folks cant vote. :)

[Phx_Dem]

56. "He touched me!!" Too funny.

I probably would have screamed the same thing!

[Clio the Leo]

3. Background (from 4/09) Kokomo Plant on the verge of closing..

http://www.wthr.com/story/10098942/kokomo-keeping-eye-on-auto-bailout?nav=menu188_2&redirected=true

[jaxx]

4. Thanks.....any minute now!

[DFab420]

5. Haha

Did you hear them say please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices?

Next is, please no flash photography and don't feed Vice President Biden, he won't leave if you do,

[Clio the Leo]

7. lol @ "Dont feed Biden" nt

[Clio the Leo]

6. Any time today now dudes...

.... I realize North Korea and all, but SOME of us have to take a nap! :)

[Clio the Leo]

8. VPOTUS up now!

I knew if I left to make some coffee they'd come out. ;)

[Clio the Leo]

9. Biden "I'm the son of an automobile man..."

DRINK!!!! (standard Biden "pop" reference)

[Clio the Leo]

12. "pop" reference #2 .... DRINK! nt

[Clio the Leo]

18. "pop" reference #3 ....... DRINK

.... two drinks for this one as this one included a quote "My dad used to have a saying, 'all they gotta do is give me product'"

[DFab420]

10. Way down in Koookomo

I can't ever think about Kokomo, IN without humming the Beach Boys..

[Clio the Leo]

14. lol, but that's a diff. one ya know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo_(song)

[DFab420]

Haha oh yeaaa

I still like imagining a bunch of people in hawaiian shirts and board shorts walking around a small landlocked Indiana town haha.

[Clio the Leo]

26. lol nt

[DFab420]

20. dupe

[Clio the Leo]

11. BIden "Bush: lost 64K auto jobs, Obama: 75K auto jobs saved." nt

[DFab420]

13. Vice Pres. Biden's using "Big Deal" as his new line

he needs to add an Effin in there somewhere haha

[Clio the Leo]

15. ha! I missed that...

.... we must add "Big Deal" to our drinking game ..... DRINK!

[Clio the Leo]

16. Biden: "high speed rail" ....... DRINK! nt

[DFab420]

17. You keep playing this game

and your nap is going to come a lot quicker then you think haha

[Clio the Leo]

19. ha ha .... it's decaf coffee nt

[DFab420]

24. Hahaha

[Clio the Leo]

21. POTUS up now! nt

[jenmito]

22. Thanks. I'm watching it on C-Span, and I tweeted this message to MSNBC:

@msnbc_politics Why aren't you covering the VP who WON in '08 right now as he speaks in IN? You cover Sarah Palin, the LOSER, 24/7!

[DFab420]

27. +1

[Clio the Leo]

28. now they've moved on to matters most important to Americans...

..... like the British royal wedding.

[jenmito]

39. Yup. They FINALLY started showing Obama's speech.

I'm sure they'll cut away soon to talk more about Palin or the royal wedding. :eyes:

[Clio the Leo]

42. and we spoke too soon...

.... apparently there's a suspicious package at one of the airports ... but dont worry, they'll go back to covering TSA outrage any moment now. Good grief.

[jenmito]

49. And now they're interviewing Velma Hart.

:eyes:

[Phx_Dem]

57. Because she's more important than someone who has been out of work for 2 years.

I feel bad for her, but no more so than anyone else who has lost their job and not been able to find another.

[jenmito]

58. Right...

but unfortunately for MSNBC, she must've vigorously defended Obama, saying she's very pleased with him, since I saw her on Hardball tonight, too, saying only positive things about him.

[DFab420]

23. Big Man's up now

[DFab420]

25. Haha I love the lackluster

applause for Evan Buh-Bye

[progressoid]

29. Unfortunate timing

Sadly, this won't make an impact. People are fired up about the TSA.

[DFab420]

31. Priorities of American people

1. Groping
2. Griping about Groping
3. Sarah Palin's daughters dancing outfits
4. JOBS!

[Clio the Leo]

33. I dont think "people" are as much as the press is...

.... today's polling shows opinion pretty evenly divided.

[DFab420]

35. good!

I just hope people realize in the grand scale of thing a shitty TSA policy is pale in comparison to homelessness, poverty and unemployment

[DFab420]

30. President Obama: What we are seeing here in Kokomo

is the hope for our future

[Clio the Leo]

32. POTUS: "(last year) the very survival of Kokomo was on the line." nt

[Clio the Leo]

34. POTUS: "For the 1st time in over a decade, American cars are outselling foreign made." nt

[DFab420]

37. You are so much better at putting up the good quotes

Haha

[Clio the Leo]

38. thanks, but I always need help.

;)

[DFab420]

43. I'm trying~!

haha

[Clio the Leo]

36. POTUS: "Dont bet against America! Dont bet against the American worker!"

SUCK ON THAT SARAH!!!! :fistbump:

[Clio the Leo]

40. Obama: "A factory that was empty and dark has come back to life."

[DFab420]

41. President Obama is a President of the people...

If you look at him, listen to him remembering the personal stories of these people, he really cares. Not about the poll numbers, not about the popular opinion of the televisions and newspapers, he cares about Americans, big and small, he cares love for them all.


He's our man, and these people in Kokomo know that no matter what the pundits say.

[Clio the Leo]

44. Obama: "Most important contest we face is not between R's and Ds, but against America and our econom

lol met w/very tepid applause

[jenmito]

45. CNN reported that on the way to the plant, Obama passed school children and he got out of the car

and said hi to them, much to the chagrin of the Secret Service, but the kids were thrilled!

[Clio the Leo]

48. yep, pool report says they were screaming in a way that evoked "Michael Jackson in Tokyo"

"OMG!!! He touched my hand!!!"

[jenmito]

53. I LOVE that the younger people (kids) still like him so much!

They're smarter than some here who can't stand him.

[DFab420]

46. POTUS: "The last thing we can afford to do right now is raise taxes on middle class families"

[Clio the Leo]

47. Obama "The worst thing we could do right now is raise taxes on mid. class families."

... sounds less forceful when he says, "I really dont think we can afford a tax cut for the rich..."

[DFab420]

50. 5 bucks says Pres. Obama knew that story about Elwood and Kokomo

before this speech. The man is like a walking google engine.

[Clio the Leo]

52. yep, that's why I love the town halls...

... or as I call them "stump the Obama." Saw him dicuss w/a man at length on international patents.

[DFab420]

54. exactly what I was thinking of! nt

[mzmolly]

51. Thanks Clio

:yourock:

[Clio the Leo]

55. you too!

:yourock:

[RBInMaine]

59. Damn good ! He needs to do this ALL THE TIME ! A champion for the middle class!