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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Ali Weinberg In a wholehearted defense of his administration’s actions to right the economy in the first months of his presidency, President Obama outlined his plans going forward to try and create more jobs and spur economic growth. “These were not decisions that were popular or satisfying,” Obama said, referring to the financial and...
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Jumpstarting job creation: For the fifth time in the past week, President Obama today will be addressing the politically potent issue of jobs and the economy. (His previous remarks, by our count, came at Thursday’s jobs summit, Friday’s speech and town hall in Allentown, Saturday’s radio/internet address,...
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Another crazy week: Last week was certainly an eventful one for President Obama (the Afghanistan speech, the jobs summit, the trip to Allentown, PA). And this week won’t be much different. Yesterday, the president made a rare visit to Capitol Hill to rally Senate Democrats on the issue of health care. Today, at...
First Read (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Allentown: Well, President Obama is heading here to Allentown… Where they're closing all the factories down… Out in Bethlehem, they're killing time… Filling out forms, standing in line… And President Obama is heading here to Allentown… He’s having trouble keeping the unemployment...
First Read (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Returning to jobs: The Afghanistan issue has dominated American politics this week. And before that was health care. But there is no subject out there more politically potent than jobs and the economy. How do we know? As we wrote earlier this week, one of us attended a focus group in Philadelphia, which was conducted...
First Read (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** When no one is happy: The hardest thing to do this morning is to find someone who is 100% pleased with both President Obama’s speech last night and his new Afghanistan policy. Many Democrats seemed hesitant to endorse the president's plan in whole, but found ways to compliment him -- either on the speech, or with...
First Read (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Obama’s challenges: Ever since his national introduction in 2004 and then his presidential win last year, Barack Obama has delivered PLENTY of big speeches. They're now almost too numerous to list -- the keynote at the Democratic convention in Boston, the campaign launch in Springfield, IL, the J-J dinner in Iowa,...
