majority of the american people thinks it makes sense for us to put teachers back in the classroom and construction workers back to work and tax breaks for small businesses and tax breaks for folks who are hiring veterans. but we ve got 100% no from republicans in the senate. welcome back. of course, that s president obama today out selling his jobs plan to america. he started out in jamestown, north carolina, then as you can see on the map, he made his way into virginia, where he s speaking today at a high school in emporia. he addressed critics who say his jobs tour is a political stunt. let s listen to the president. some people asked me yesterday, why i was visiting republican areas of north carolina. i said, well, first of all, it s because i just like north
republicans in the senate. welcome back. of course, that s president obama today out selling his jobs plan to america. he started out in jamestown, north carolina. then as you can see on the map he made his way into virginia where he s speaking today at a high school in emporia. he addressed critics who say his jobs tour is a political stunt. let s listen to the president. some people asked me yesterday, why i was visiting republican areas of north carolina. i said, well, first of all, it s because i just like north carolina. second of all, i m not the democratic president or republican president, i m the president. and third of all, i don t care if you re republican or a democrat, because we re all americans. well, bob shrum is a democratic strategist and ron reagan is a political commentator and author of my father at 100.
polls and now is in a freefall. so does rick perry show up? is he combative defending his views and is he as feisty at the end as he is at the beginning? because a lot of people have said that at the course of the two-hour debates, he starts to fade. that s my question. mr. cain will be the center attention as well. let s talk herman cain versus mitt romney. is it a fair fight? well, sl tl a fair fight? everything is fair in love and politics, right? is it a fair fight? you know, it depends on how you look at it. in the sense that herman cain you could say, no, it s not a fair fight. mitt romney ran for president last time, he s an experienced politician. he s got infrastructure in all of the key states. he has this overwhelming advantage. however, look at what the tea party did in 2010. a guy who has no political infrastructure. he s ran for office but never been elected to office before. a lot of voters like that. do enough voters want a president who has never held off
lose somebody that close and that we know so well. so just ask everybody to pray for him. ask anybody in this field if we could choose a way to go, that s the way. wheldon is survived by a wife and two young sons. he was only 33 years old. president obama s jobs bill is not going to go any further at this point but his so-called jobs tour is not. well, in about two hours, we ll embark on a three day bus trip to asheville, north carolina and virginia. two swing states very key to his 2012 re-election bid. the president will urge congress to get to work this week on passing pieces of that defunct jobs bill. the growing search for missing baby lisa irwin entering its second week now. dozens of national guard troops joined over the weekend combing through wooded areas in kansas city. no new lead brought us to this location. what you have here is new manpower, additional manpower.
2008, in part, thanks to an influx of people who moved here from the north. professionals, minority voters here. now, some of those younger independent voters have really soured on president obama in part because of the dismal economy. republicans know it, chuck. they smell blood in these two states. they are already waging a serious re-election battle in these two states. in fact, the rnc will hold a conference call a little bit later on this morning to talk about that. these are two about nine states that republicans think they can win back in 2012. of course, the white house very aware of that. so, they are taking this region very seriously, as well. they are calling this a trip for his jobs tour, but, of course, 2012 overshadows all of it, chuck. as you mentioned, we will likely see a lot of the similar themes play out that we saw during his bus trip this summer when he traveled through the midwest when you were there, chuck, to witness that. chuck? all right.