Obama: 'America is coming back'
Source: AP-Excite
By KEN THOMAS
HOUSTON (AP) - Raising campaign cash in Republican territory, President Barack Obama on Friday hailed a rebounding economy and accused Republicans of banking on voters having "amnesia" about the steps that led to a brutal economic collapse.
"The recovery is accelerating. America is coming back," Obama told 600 supporters at a Texas fundraiser.
Bidding for re-election, Obama bounded between a rally-style event in a sprawling Rolls-Royce manufacturing plant south of Richmond, Va., to a pair of Houston fundraisers. Framing the trip: a new monthly jobs report showing employers 227,000 jobs in February, the latest sign that the economy is headed in the right direction.
Every month's jobs report is seen as a barometer of the economy and an important factor in the presidential race. The unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent, the result of more Americans looking for work as job growth takes hold month by month.
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President Barack Obama gestures during a speech on the economy,Friday, March 9, 2012, at the Rolls Royce aircraft engine part production plant in Prince George, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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GOP on the ropes and self destructing ...
Right wing hate radio imploding in their own putridity ...
The economy starting to come alive ...
A GOP congress that has been stymied by their own radical dysfunction .... and being exposed nationally as detriments to the nation's progress ......
GOP candidates who are perhaps the most ridiculous slate ever, going through perhaps the most ridiculous campaign ever ....
A gilded prince who is not so glib ...
A Torquemada who is not so glib ...
A glib, narcissistic megalomaniac ....
A racist loner ....
They might was well cancel the whole election now, and put the money to better use ....
Bankrupt yourselves Pubbies, this is the time.
