At a White House blues concert last night, President Obama accepted the mic after Buddy Guy brought up the President’s Al Green performance and said, “You’ve started something. You’ve got to keep it up now.” Check it out:
Earlier in the night, the President talked about the rich legacy of blues music in the United States. Read his remarks at whitehouse.gov.
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Three years after President Obama signed the Recovery Act, Bill tells the story of the loan that helped him start his business—and explains why small businesses and the middle class are “one and the same.”
Dina, a supporter in Florida, hosted a Women for Obama party back in November. Check out our new video to see why house parties are such an important way to build this campaign in your neighborhood. You can sign up here to host one of your own next week.
Speaking at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) earlier today, President Obama introduced his plan for a budget that will help get our economy back on track:
In the State of the Union, I outlined a blueprint for an economy that is built to last—an economy built on new manufacturing, and new sources of energy, and new skills and education for the American people.
Today, we’re releasing the details of that blueprint in the form of next year’s budget. And don’t worry, I will not read it to you. It’s long and a lot of numbers. But the main idea in the budget is this: At a time when our economy is growing and creating jobs at a faster clip, we’ve got to do everything in our power to keep this recovery on track.
Part of our job is to bring down our deficit. And if Congress adopts this budget, then along with the cuts that we’ve already made, we’ll be able to reduce our deficit by $4 trillion by the year 2022—$4 trillion. I’m proposing some difficult cuts that, frankly, I wouldn’t normally make if they weren’t absolutely necessary. But they are. And the truth is we’re going to have to make some tough choices in order to put this country back on a more sustainable fiscal path.
By reducing our deficit in the long term, what that allows us to do is to invest in the things that will help grow our economy right now. We can’t cut back on those things that are important for us to grow. We can’t just cut our way into growth. We can cut back on the things that we don’t need, but we also have to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share for the things that we do need.
For more ways the President is following through on his promise to support our economy by investing in education, check out this video.
Today, we’re exactly 270 days out from 270 electoral votes on Election Day—our ground game goal. This week’s Friday Facts takes a by-the-numbers look at the some of the progress we’ve made in the field so far.
Here’s a rundown:
1,383: Voters our field teams helped register in Florida during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend of action
522,699: Conversations between volunteers and voters in Nevada
Over 1 million: Person-to-person conversations—supporters talking to folks about what they want to see from this campaign and how to get involved
Share the full fact sheet with your friends on the campaign trail.
“Trying not to FEC up”—wise words to live by in our Federal Election Commission reporting team.
Want to learn more about Lilly Ledbetter’s fight to help pass the fair pay measure that bears her name? Hear her describe the moment President Obama told her: “We’re going to do this”—and what it’s like to dance with the President of the United States.
Starting now, you can follow @Obama2012 on Twitter for the latest headlines and behind-the-scenes updates from the campaign. If you already follow @BarackObama, then @Obama2012 will appeal more to the campaign junkie in you— we’ll share news articles we’re reading, answer your questions, and give you a look at the nuts and bolts of how this whole thing works.
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Bust out the chips—it’s almost time for kickoff. Declare your loyalty to New York or New England, order the Obama 2012 Big Game pack, and steal a recipe for some chili that’s downright presidential. Then sit back and enjoy the game.