President Barack Obama spent Thursday evening in Parma, making a campaign speech as part of a 250-mile campaign swing through Ohio.
WEWS has video of the speech at James Day Park in Parma, where he spoke of the economy, his health care plan and hiring more teachers.
According to the Plain Dealer, Obama met Natoma Canfield, the Medina woman and cancer survivor who became one of the faces of his push for health care reform, at the Parma event.
The visit was part of the president's "Betting on America" bus tour through northern Ohio on the heels of his .
Obama made a speech in Maumee, highlighting his 2009 auto industry bailout and said Republican opponent Mitt Romney's experience was with companies that were "pioneers of outsourcing," the Toledo Blade reported.
The Blade also reported that the Obama administration will file and unfair trade complaint over China's duties on some American-made cars and SUVs, including the Jeep Wrangler, which is made in Toledo.
Obama made a surprise appearance at a restaurant in Oak Harbor, the Blade reported. While there, he chatted with a little boy about the boy's spiky blue-tipped hair, and signed a fourth-grade girl's sketchbook. He later made another unexpected stop at an orchard in Danbury Township, buying corn for a dinner in Washington this weekend and some cherries.
At an ice cream social in Sandusky's Washington Park, Obama was introduced to a crowd of about 300 people by former NFL star Orlando Pace, a Sandusky native, reported Andy Ouriel of the Sandusky Register as part of the White House press pool. This is the first visit to Sandusky by a sitting president since Harry Truman in 1948, Ouriel added.
Before getting to Parma, Obama stopped at Ziggy's, an Amherst bar, and had a beer with former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram reported the president bought two Miller Lites -- one for him, one for Strickland -- and chatted with bar patrons.
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USA Today writer David Jackson said Obama hit "all the notes" on the day's bus tour. The Wall Street Journal describes his visit as "retail politics" and has some photos from earlier in the day.
Also in Parma on Thursday, the Plain Dealer reported on a clash in the audience during a speech by Tim Pawlenty during a GOP rally to support Mitt Romney. One man reportedly tried to gag another with a handkerchief.
After the speech, the president will spend the night at the in Fairlawn, according to .
Have more Right-Wing Partisan Punch. It's being served in the "Branches of Government 101 & How They Work" class you just enrolled in.
$5.7 trillion - January 2001 $10.7 trillion - December 2008 $15.9 trillion - today, July, 2012 Obama can't keep blaming W. At some point, he became responsible and needs to take responsibility for his share. He can't keep blaming the other guy. I never saw a president always having to point the finger at everyone else and not himself. I don't recall W go on and on about how the dems started the housing problem back in the 90's that were greatly responsible for the foreclosure and banking problems that occurred at the end of W's term. Why anyone ever thought it was a good thing to let "everyone own a home" is beyond me. This started us even losing our own National City.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/ Of course - I am not sure why I am wasting my time since I doubt you would pay attention to facts/statistics.
I doubt that you could have become so wealthy under a socialistic system unless you were politically connected. I have been to several tea party events and have not witnessed the stereotypical behavioral characteristics that you have attributed to the attendees. In fact, I bet you have never even attended a tea party event. It sounds like you may actually work for the Obama campaign in some fashion. It is very telling from your hateful rhetoric e.g. “The tea Party fools should be forcefully removed from our country. Bunch of misguided prejudiced rednecks” and “drag Queen Mandell” slurs that you are more interested in espousing your hate speech and not allowing other groups their constitutional rights to free speech. Ignorant individuals like you are very dangerous and pose a threat to our civil liberties. You should be careful - since someday your own political viewpoints may become subjugated in the same manner as you are advocating.
I doubt that you could have become so wealthy under a socialistic system unless you were politically connected. I have been to several tea party events and have not witnessed the stereotypical behavioral characteristics that you have attributed to the attendees. In fact, I bet you have never even attended a tea party event. It sounds like you may actually work for the Obama campaign in some fashion. It is very telling from your hateful rhetoric e.g. “The tea Party fools should be forcefully removed from our country. Bunch of misguided prejudiced rednecks” and “drag Queen Mandell” slurs that you are more interested in espousing your hate speech and not allowing other groups their constitutional rights to free speech. Ignorant individuals like you are very dangerous and pose a threat to our civil liberties. You should be careful - since someday your own political viewpoints may become subjugated in the same manner as you are advocating.
For the most part he seems to be more factual than many others.
"Obama had his chance and did nothing but get this country trillions of dollars in debt." Which is what I was responding to. And a year by year analysis would show that Obama inherited an amazingly high annual deficit to "work" with. OK. I made a mistake. GWB inherited annual surpluses from Clinton & quickly turned them into annual deficits. I misremembered "annual deficits" as "national debt". Otherwise, I stand by my statements as factual, documentable, and in context. What you guys post is something else entirely. But I will no longer respond to ToS-violaters who hide behind fake or incomplete names.
Budgets have inertia, they are difficult to change year to year. Let's see, now. The 1993 WTC bombing happened on February 26. 38 days after the first Bush left office. So, if you can blame Clinton for 9/11, then the firsat Bush gets the blame for 2/26/93. But then Clinton captured, tried, convicted and imprisoned the perpetrators: Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah. He tripled the FBI's counter-terrorism budget and doubled counter-terrorism funding overall. GWB and Cheney ignored the intelligence, and GWB continued to read the bunny book to the kindergartners. And left it to Obama to bring Bin Laden to justice.
I again agree - you can go back and back and back... to see who is to blame for not fixing problems as they may have first happened. I was stating the events that occurred before W - 1993 bombing and creation of the housing crisis. That was my point. No other president constantly pointed their finger at their predecessor. This is what Obama does. This is his answer to why things are bad. He does not take responsibility. He does not just do his job. It's always the other guys fault. Even almost 4 years later, its still some other person's fault. Obama's increase to the debt in less than 4 years is more than what George W added in 8. And, as you said - W had 2 wars.
I believe - that is exactly my point. He is going out of his way to stifle others opinions for which he does NOT agree and wants to ship those individuals and their opinions for which he does not agree...out of the country. He seems to believe THEY DO NOT deserve to be heard.
Reasoned, and reasonable disagreement is one thing. Conduct of that nature serves no one's interest or better angels. I will not be posting on any Patch until the Patch decides to enforece their own Terms of Service. Have at it, guys.
So back to the huffinton post garry those sheep are easy to sway
"Las Cruces Tea Party Sets Off Controversy With Confederate Flag Display" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/las-cruces-tea-party-confederate-flag_n_1659619.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
http://washingtonexaminer.com/introduction-the-obama-you-dont-know/article/2508080 - 33k -