Obama fine-tunes appeal to young voters

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Washington Examiner:

President Obama is branding Republicans as predators endangering education and scholarship money as part of his re-election strategy to reenergize the young voters who propelled him into office in 2008.

"There are powerful voices in Washington; there are powerful lobbies and special interests in Washington," Obama told hundreds of college students at North Virginia Community College's Annandale campus on Tuesday. "And they're going to want to reduce the deficit on your backs. And if you are not heard, that's exactly what's going to happen."

Obama traveled to three college campuses in the last week to slam House Republicans' debt-reduction plans and promote his own, which would increase taxes on the wealthy, cut the defense budget and preserve Medicare and Medicaid.

"I just spent the last two years making sure that instead of giving subsidies to banks, we were giving that money directly to students in the form of more grants and better deals on their loans," Obama said. "I'm not going to undo that after all the work we've done."

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"I just spent the last two years making sure that instead of giving subsidies to banks, we were giving that money directly to students in the form of more grants and better deals on their loans," Obama said. "I'm not going to undo that after all the work we've done."

What an outright lie.

 

The frapping bailouts gave megaBuck$ to the banks and much of it flowed to overseas banking interests.

 

The good news though is that half the students he's talking to today will be out of school (or past the point of getting new loans) by voting time. Knowing the "me" mentality of many of these kids, it will be a meaningless message at the time to get out their vote.