Jan 25, 2010

Report: Obama Ohio townhall meeting was a trainwreck

From a National Review report:

Obama's appearance for Martha Coakley last week was one of the least effective stump appearances I had seen from a president. A lot of factors contributed to that - Coakley's literally yawn-inducing speech, the decision to use the president as an attack dog in the race, the president (or his speechwriter's) odd fixation on Scott Brown's truck, and so on.

But it was at that townhall meeting in Ohio that Obama was way off his game.

He was defensive, prickly, almost indignant that he's found himself in the tough spot that he's in.

He began by talking about how much he didn't like being in Washington, and apparently said something about the job being stifling. Sir, you spent two years trying to get this job!

He said he was calling on Congress to "pass a jobs bill." Wasn’t the stimulus was supposed to do that.

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