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Dismal Beginning To Obama's Never-Ending Campaign
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 7, 2012
Posted on May 7, 2012 9:25:26 PM EDT by raptor22
Politics: The Preezy of the United Steezy, as Barack Obama lets Jimmy Fallon refer to him, opens his re-election bid to a partially-filled stadium and a letter from his rival asking this year's key question: Where are the jobs?
There were no faux Greek columns when the president with the composite girlfriend and taste for canine filets officially began his 57-state campaign Saturday at Ohio State University's 18,300-seat Schottenstein Center that was only partially filled with those wearing faded "hope and change" T-shirts hoping to get their student loans paid off.
According to recent stats, only half of OSU graduates can expect to find jobs and like the rest of their brethren will take up residence in their parents' basements between occupy-whatever rallies. The one they were once again waiting for drew some 14,000 people to the arena. Before he spoke, the OSU newspaper, the Lantern, tweeted that ushers were asking people at the rally to move "in order for seats to look full for TV."
The glass looked less half-empty later at President Obama's next stop at a rally at the Siegel Center at the University of Virginia in another 2012 battleground state. It seats a more manageable crowd of 8,000. But the message was the same.
"If people ask you what the campaign is all about, hope. It's still about change," he told his Virginia audience after nearly four years of work on his golf game. The campaign is about waiting for nothing while an "economy built to last" on electric cars and windmills finally implodes under the weight of his own arrogance.
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