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Published: 12/8/09

Obama on Jobs: Edgy Politics, No Price Tag, and TLC for Small Business

By  Jill Lawrence - Politics Daily
Obama on Jobs: Edgy Politics, No Price Tag, and TLC for Small Business

President Obama was taking a brief detour from his teleprompted remarks on jobs. "Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families," he riffed. He was at that moment deep within the bubble -- standing alone at the lectern of a downtown D.C. think tank, wearing the capital's standard-issue dark suit, addressing a mostly silent audience of scholars and graybeards. I'm going to try not to read anything into the fact that Afghanistan got prime time and an audience of ...

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