Obama Leaves Beltway Bubble to Visit Ordinary Americans; The Trip Was Short

No wonder Obama is doing such a poor job as president. He spends all his time campaigning, fund raising, Photo Ops, and playing golf.

Where was all this protest over the last 10 years???...Its so funny how now, everyone wants to voice their disapproval all over the country. WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE WERE BEING DRIVEN INTO THIS HOLE!! Think about it! You can blame President Obama all you want, we all know how we got into this mess.

Maybe Wagner would prefer he follow the Bush System. Fly to a scenic area, such as Jackson Hole, Wyoming for four days smoozing with the Hollywood and big business vacation mansion owners, then down to Crawford for 12 days, before jetting to Florida for a weekend with Jeb, of course after a four day stop in Houston with Mommy Dearest and Daddy. Maybe Wagner and the Tea Partiers, discovered as being subsidized by the inherited BiLLIONS of the Koch Brothers, would prefer another idle president to let us drift into a full depression, not just get into a serious recession. Or has Ms. Wagner noticed, this president's first full fiscal year resulted in 8% less federal spending than the last full year of Bush/Cheney. Despite President Obama being left with a whole bunch of royal messes to clean up -- not the least was a Health Insurance industry which saw 1998 NET profits of $2.5-Billion increasing to $12.5-BILLION NET PROFIT in 2008. This at the same time, the Bush/Cheney cronies in the Oil Patch saw record profits and we paid $5.00 per gallon and up for gasoline -- during a time of surplus crude production and inventoriories -- from pure market manipulation of those Bush/Cheney cronies. Golly, Gee Whiz -- Don't we miss the good old days!!

Nothing Obama proposes is "new". It's just old recycled 1960's and 1970's liberalism combined with 1940's "new deal" federalism. It will fail as it has done before in the past...

Obama is completely out of touch with, "ordinary americans". His policies are proof...

Well, of course he'll try to save the teachers jobs! Wasn't the teachers union one of his biggest contributors? He needs these teachers to help indoctrinate our children! Long before he announced his bid for presidency, excerpts from both his books appeared in the new 8th grade language arts texts in Florida. No Adams, no Jefferson, no MLK. But words from an unknown, Barack Obama. No other politician quoted in the entire text. I, along with others adamantly let the school district know that the students were NOT to study his passages without introducing other political figures as well. What did they do? Just skipped over him rather than offer quotes from the true great Americans. It's so past time to get the Feds out of public education.

Fairfax? Fairfax? Try a town like Lyndonville Vermont or Plattsburg New York or Amarillo Texas. You want real, then get real. Fairfax? LOL

I agree with Sysaphus 71, and in addition, the President needs to extend the tax cuts for all Americans, stop the political blundering from the far left.

How convienient, go to a town with low unemployment and a higher than average median income and ask them how he is doing. History shows that typically those who are doing well or not feeling the economic crunch view the controlling power as being neutral. Yeah, they may feel like some things are being done wrong but don't really care because it does not affect them. Obama wouldnt dare go talk to the true middle class. It's always the upper middle or the lower class. So, it's either spun that everything is great and getting better or this is why we have to spend more money to help these poor people. He needs to go talk to someone that goes to work everyday and struggles to pay the bills and recieves no goverment assistance and fights the ever continueing cost of living increases in food, fuel, and goods. It's easy to tell someone they have had enough to eat when your belly is full Obama. It's easy to tell someone that sacrifices will have to be made and it's going to be tough when your taking vacations and holding lavish parties on the tax payers dime. I had a growing 1 person business until the democrats took control in 2006. Now through goverment regulation, the lack of the democrats to acknowledge there were problems, and hasty self serving decisions made (Mr Cuomo in particular) my business and many others in the same profession is in the toilet (and no I am not a lender or mortgage broker or real estate sales agent). The consumer has seen an increase of 2.8 billion dollars last year for our services which was made by stealing from us and increasing fees to the consumer. Of course, the democrats got their slice of the pie increased so everything must be good for the country, right?

Obama's stance on the War on Poverty is consistent with his position on the War in Iraq: he has declared victory and withdrawn from the battlefield, regardless of the consequences. Poverty rates and homelessness on his watch are back to what they were before Lyndon Johnson declared "war on poverty" in the sixties.