Obama speaking in Holland, MI - LIVE VIDEO

...and especially that he'd get out of Washington and into the rest of the country.

Oh, wait....

They should go home and listen to people's frustrations w the bickering.

It's just those "folks" of both parties in Washington who hold to their partisan ideological agendas.

He keeps bringing out Pink Fluffy Bunnies up against the GOP Corporate Pitbulls

He could point out the fatal flaws and the one-sided craziness of the GOP Teabaggers as the real culprit, in a way that the independent swing voters can relate to. That is going to be the major job next year.

This IS a partisan battle. This is a choice between parties and ideologies.

The GOP has set that as the playing field. Like it not, we have to challenge them on that basis.

Only preaching to the choir in safe settings isn't going to cut it.

Not a whole lot new, but maybe, just maybe, people will HEAR the message for a change. He laid out the very good and mostly PROGRESSIVE ideas on things that can be done now: infrastructure investment, smoother patent process, continuing middle class tax cuts, etc.

He hit the reasons for the economic struggle spot on, and called on Americans to get the hell out there and hold Congress accountable.

And, when he talked about those who wouldn't compromise and wanted party over country (GREAT LINE WHICH HE REPEATED SEVERAL TIMES), you know which TEAPARTY he was talking about.

Glad to see he is doing this. It was a serious and good speech which spoke well especially to progressives and moderates, and you sure as hell need moderates to even think about winning a national election.