Obama seeks votes as complaints mount over storm response

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times:

MENTOR, Ohio — Facing questions about his campaigning for re-election while millions of Americans still await government relief efforts from superstorm Sandy, President Obama said Saturday that one of the disaster’s positive results was “leaders of different political parties working together to fix what’s broken.”

“It’s a spirit that says, ‘We’re all in this together,’ ” Mr. Obama told about 4,000 supporters in a high-school gym in northeast Ohio. “We rise and fall as one nation and one people.”

The president then pivoted quickly to his partisan stump speech, attacking Republican rival Mitt Romney for pursuing “top-down economics” for the wealthy and billing himself as the true agent of change in the election on Tuesday.

“We tried their ideas, and they don’t work,” Mr. Obama said of the GOP. “You know I’ll fight for you and your families every single day. It’s time to keep pushing forward.”

The president told supporters to take their friends and neighbors to vote in three days. “Make sure they vote for me before you drag them to the polls,” he said.

Some critics are accusing Mr. Obama and other government officials of praising storm relief efforts too soon.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, on Saturday urged the White House and state leaders in the Northeast dealing with the recovery to “stop declaring victory, stop giving speeches” and focus on helping victims of the storm.

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, defending the president’s full campaign schedule amid the post-storm suffering on the East Coast, told reporters that Mr. Obama is “losing his voice a little bit out on the campaign trail” because he is talking on the phone constantly with state and local officials between rallies where he stumps for votes.

“In between every single event, he basically walks off the stage, gets on a phone call with governors, mayors and first-responders,” Ms. Psaki said. “Just from being backstage, that’s what he’s doing every single moment. He’s focused on it every minute he’s not on the stage.”

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Hopefully he'll be off the stage come Tuesday.

[Pepper]

@WVR

 

"Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, defending the president’s full campaign schedule amid the post-storm suffering on the East Coast, told reporters that Mr. Obama is “losing his voice a little bit out on the campaign trail” because he is talking on the phone constantly with state and local officials between rallies where he stumps for votes."

 

Even his minions lie like rugs.