Obama Remarks at the Aulani Disney Resort, Ko Olina, Hawaii

[ellisonz]

Excerpt:

President Kennedy used to say that, after he took office, what surprised him most about Washington was finding out that things were just as bad as he'd been saying they were. (Laughter.) I can relate. (Laughter.) When you've got the top Republican in the Senate saying that his party's number-one priority isn't putting people back to work, isn't trying to fix the economy, but is to try to defeat me, you've got a sense that things in Washington aren't really on the level.

That's how you end up with Republicans in Congress voting against all kinds of jobs proposals that they actually supported in the past -- tax cuts for workers and small business; rebuilding our roads and our bridges; putting cops and teachers back to work. These aren’t partisan issues. These are common-sense approaches to putting people back to work at a time when the unemployment rate is way too high. But politics seems to override everything in Washington these days. And people are tired of it, and they expect it to change.

They might think it’s a smart political strategy, but it’s not a strategy to make America stronger. It’s not a strategy to relieve some of the pain and difficulty that families are feeling all across the country, including here in Hawaii. It’s not a strategy to help middle-class families who've been working two and three shifts just to put food on the table -- if they can find a job. It’s not a strategy for us winning the future.

So we’ve got a choice in 2012. The question is not whether people are still hurting. The question is whether -- it’s not whether our economy is still on the mend. There’s no doubt that things are tough right now. Of course people are hurting. Of course the economy is still struggling. The question is what do we do about it? The debate we need to have in this election is about where we go from here.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/14/remarks-president-campaign-event

:applause:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Congress passed three of his four jobs bills last month

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QGNLLO2.htm">Obama signs 3 trade deals, biggest since NAFTA

Obama and Congress seem to be working well together, I don't know why he complains so much.

[ellisonz]

2. Passing one part of an economic agenda...

...does not mean co-operation.

We know we know - you want to go back to the trade policies of the 19th century. Damn trading and monetary systems have produced nothing but 65 years of no great power conflicts. These liberals and their international co-operation are negating the necessity of my world-wide socialist revolution. Drats. Very realistic and forward thinking of you, sir!:sarcasm: