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Day 60: Obama goes to California

Niklas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:01:23 +0000

President Obama begins a visit to southern California today where he plans to use a backdrop of job losses and home foreclosures to argue for a budget proposal he says will begin building a new economy.

California supported Obama in last year’s election, and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed the president’s stimulus package, which will bring a state with a double-digit unemployment rate more than $30 billion in federal help.

But an angry populism fed by the financial crisis is rising in the country, including among moderate Republicans, whose support for Obama in this state was important to his success. Here in traditionally conservative Orange County, where he will hold a town hall-style event tonight, his visit is as much a show of solidarity as sales opportunity.

Story on Washington Post

Reuters also reports that Obama plans to visit drug war-scarred Mexico in April.

Story on Reuters

Obama’s address to congress

Paul -V- — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:55:53 +0000

Here’s the video of the entire Presidential address given February 24, 1009. Many hope this will be the first of at least eight.

ON EDIT (March 3, 2009 @ 09:45 EST): The old video player started automatically and crashed Safari browsers, so I replaced it with better-behaved YouTube code.

Obama’s weekly address: February 14, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Every Saturday President Obama posts his weekly address on the internet. I can’t believe we at WIOD haven’t already started posting these.

Thankfully, we aren’t that far behind – so I’ll start from the Valentine’s Day address two days ago.

Topics: Economic stimulus, Economic crisis, Hope