York: Entering stretch, Obama campaign running on empty

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York: Entering stretch, Obama campaign running on empty

 

October 18, 2012 | 8:00 pm

Byron York

 

Chief Political Correspondent

 

The Washington Examiner

President Obama's stump speech Thursday at Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester, N.H., was much like the speeches he's given across battleground states in the last few weeks. Listen to it, and you'll hear the short version of what the president promises to accomplish in a second term. It's not much.

"I will not be satisfied until everybody who wants to work hard can find a job," the president told the crowd. To make that happen, he promised to do five things.

First, he would

Obama's real second-term agenda, as outlined in his speeches and other campaign appearances, is protecting the work of his first term. He'll keep troops out of old war zones. He'll protect Obamacare from repeal. He'll keep pushing, and funding, green energy. The critics who (correctly) say Obama doesn't have a second-term agenda sometimes miss the fact that much of Obama's argument for re-election is that he needs another term to keep in place the things he has already done.

As for anything new, the really big things