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President Obama to visit Lorain County on Jan. 22
President Barack Obama will visit Lorain County in northern Ohio on Friday, Jan. 22, for the next stop on his “White House to Main Street Tour,” the White House announced on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Obama will meet with workers, local CEOs, small business owners and local leaders to talk about growing the economy and putting Americans back to work, a press release said.
The president will speak to Ohioans “about the challenges they are facing and listening to their ideas for how we will continue to work together to turn the economy around,” the release said. It will be his fifth visit to Ohio since his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009.
Obama kicked off the tour in December with a trip to the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania.
Democrat Obama carried Ohio in 2008 against Republican John McCain but state polls have shown a dip in his approval rating as the economy continues to stumble.
The state has lost 98,600 jobs since Obama took office in January 2009 and Ohio’s 10.6 percent unemployment rate in November was the highest since a 10.7 percent rate in November 1983.
While Obama won’t face voters again until 2012, his fortunes are tied to those of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland who’s being challenged for re-election this year by Republican John Kasich, the former U.S. House member from suburban Columbus.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-0hio, who represented Lorain County in the House for 14 years, welcomed news of the visit. Brown plans to be with Obama when the president visits.
“I don’t believe a sitting president has visited Lorain County since President Harry Truman’s whistlestop visit to Elyria in 1948,” Brown said in a press release.
“….Harry Truman fought for workers and the middle class and President Obama is doing the same.”
Trip details will be available “in the coming days,” the Obama press release said.
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By greatly concerned
January 7, 2010 9:47 AM | Link to this
Taft and Boehner lost the jobs in Ohio. 13 straight years of rising unemployment in Ohio is not Obama’s fault. What was Boehner doing for Ohioans while insurance premiums were going up 25% a year? He was playing golf with the BIG INSURANCE companies that pay for his campaigns.
By HowRad
January 6, 2010 2:20 PM | Link to this
PS Obama will be bringing jobs to Ohio, but they will be gone after the event is cleaned up
By Leslie
January 6, 2010 2:08 PM | Link to this
Moderator I see you are ready to step up and start the smears and lies about Kasich. You keep at it, but it won’t work. Obama, Biden, and Clinton can come here all they want and it will not help one bit. Kasich will be the next Governor of Ohio.
By HowRad
January 6, 2010 6:51 AM | Link to this
Obama is back on the campaign mode and that is where he likes it. It is also where he was most popular. This is not about jobs, it’s about getting his numbers and the democrat party numbers back up in the state. With 2010 close, he wants to remind everyone how the democratic politicians are the only ones looking out for us.
By earl
January 5, 2010 5:58 PM | Link to this
Is this a plea for help? Is he showing America that he doesn’t have a clue about economics? Must he continue illustrating that elite academic ideology is best left on the college campus? His administration is a comedy of errors that has left the world laughing. Who needs pantie bombs when you have Barack?
By JP
January 5, 2010 5:08 PM | Link to this
Shut Up
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January 5, 2010 4:52 PM | Link to this
To R U kidding me: Do you understand the word treason? We will be picking you up soon. Thanks for tipping us off.
By R U Kidding Me
January 5, 2010 4:41 PM | Link to this
President B. Hussain Obama is an embarrasment and a disaster for the American people on the scale that we will never see again. An avowed liberal with no real life job experience - than man lacks any commonsensical knowledge how to create jobs and stimulate small businesses to grow and develop. This tom-foolery of givening away borrowed money is now roosting. The economy is poised to do nothing but dig a deeper hole. Barry Hussain should be tried for treason and imprisoned for crimes against future generations. The man is a stuffed shirt. A token apology of our countries past shame. Now our overboard sympathy and unchecked apathy about this man is destroying this country. Never, should we have put this man in the position that he is in. Guilty of narcissism, guilty of arrogance, guilty of destroying this country. One day all the liberals will pay for what they have done to our country. Ruination is here people and his name is Barack HUSSAIN Obama. If he is your leader - follow him off the cliff but I won’t. INSURRECTION NOW!!!
By The Moderator
January 5, 2010 4:17 PM | Link to this
Republicans have proven they can not be trusted to manage government or regulate business. Mr. John Kasich last real job was with a Wall Street firm that went bankrupt and was disliked enough even the Republican Treasuer Paulson refused to bailout with TARP funds and sold off the assets to pay creditors. Republicans are the party of NO and failure. No plans and No hope.
By James
January 5, 2010 4:13 PM | Link to this
I wonder if Obama has come to Ohio to apologize for all the promises he broke, or does he blame that on Bush too.
By A is A
January 5, 2010 3:54 PM | Link to this
“John Kasich couldn’t ask for a better endorsement than Obama supporting his opponent.” Since Strickland wasn’t going to get your vote anyway, your analysis is noted and filed in the wastebasket where it belongs. You actually need to listen to more than the wingnut echo chamber (Limbaugh / Hannity / Beck / etc).
By Ohio voter
January 5, 2010 3:54 PM | Link to this
How many days did Bush spend in Washington? I am not completely satisfied with Obama, but seeing the Country and the people he was elected to serve is part of his job. My son’s employer hired several people in permanent technical jobs with stimulus money, so I know it does create jobs. I am waiting to see what he does in his second year. Unlike Limbaugh, I do not hope he fails, I hope he suceeds, for America’s sake.
By Skeptic
January 5, 2010 3:47 PM | Link to this
These comments are so funny. Did you know that Bush took more vacations than any other President in history? Heaven forbid Obama does a photo op to make people feel a little better. The stimulus hasn’t worked? Wrong. Look, we averted a major economic disaster. Where is your economics degree? Oh wait… His administration is nothing more than academics?? That’s a GOOD thing. We need more smart people running the show, not just loud-mouth know-nothings. This country is finally on the right track. Get on board or get left behind.
By InconvenientFacts
January 5, 2010 3:39 PM | Link to this
You know, you “maybe he should stay in the White House and work” guys should consider that, especially with today’s technology, the President doesn’t have to be stuck behind his desk to do his job. Air Force One is fully outfitted with secure communications and videoconferencing. Even walking around, the President is accompanied by plenty of people who are in constant contact with the executive branch offices (satellite phones, secure cell phones and faxes, etc). I know a number of “office” workers who are fully effective with just a cellphone and a laptop with WiFi and no actual office. Your comments indicate more that you need to start thinking in terms of the 21st Century, as opposed to the 19th. (Oh, and were you whining as loudly while Bush spent all those vacations “clearing brush” and whatnot? I doubt it.)
By Honda
January 5, 2010 3:23 PM | Link to this
The President is realy a traveler. How many days has he spent in the White house.Well, maybe that is a good thing!!
By Honda
January 5, 2010 3:23 PM | Link to this
The President is realy a traveler. How many days has he spent in the White house.Well, maybe that is a good thing!!
By yourface
January 5, 2010 3:10 PM | Link to this
John Kasich couldn’t ask for a better endorsement than Obama supporting his opponent. Bye Bye Mr Strickland and good riddance! As for the Obama-messiah, his day will come in 2012 and Americans will gladly show him the door, worse president than Carter.
By What Else Is New
January 5, 2010 2:48 PM | Link to this
He has no clue what to do about job creation after their stimulus did little of nothing. Now they are up against the wall regarding spending, and their ideology won’t allow for abandonment of business concerns about future healthcare and cap & trade costs.None of his administration are more than academics,career politicians, & union leaders, and they don’t create jobs. Further, unless Ohio does something to make us business friendly again, this is only a “feel-good” photo op for the media, like his jobs summit last month.
By FreedomWriter
January 5, 2010 2:22 PM | Link to this
Is this guy really going off on another flying adventure? Maybe its time the Pres stays at the White House and actually does some work for a change.. He11 he wasnt elected to go joy riding all the time. Oh its change you can believe in thats for sure. I wonder if someone could ever be elected that might just do the things they promised. Looks like this guy missed the boat for sure..