plane for a long time. we heard from this gentleman last hour, he was in tears as he was recounting the fact he didn t think he was going to make it. three passengers were treated at the airport for minor injuries in addition to the flight attendants. martha: i don t like turbulence. i try to stay calm. i know it is part of flying but that turbulence sounds like it was something really, really extraordinary. we re so glad they re okay. back to politics now, folks. first lady michelle obama heads down to florida s battleground in an effort to connect to key middle class voters. here is mrs. obama discussing her family s blue-collar up brinkings at a campaign event last week. growing up, let me tell you what i saw. i saw how my parents saved and sacrificed. you know how they poured everything they had into me and my brother. education was everything in my family. everything, it was our
know, where we go from here? the future of america. the mission of america. that we ve been here before. that we can come back, folks. that we can pull it together. we can be better than this. not sort of that the middle class is just, we all want to put our arms around each other and we understand how we feel and how terrible everything is. tuck can i? tucker. for once i think i agree with alan, it is ideas that matter and those are issues upon which the campaign should be run. that is not what is happening of course. partly because the middle class is in trouble. the black unemployment rate is over 14% as you know. there is not a good story to tell. but beyond that, the key theme of the obama campaign, seems to be, and i think michelle s obama appearance plays into this. mitt romney is bad guy. can t relate to you. he rich and out of touch and insensitive and he doesn t like you. if i were to boil down the campaign to single phrase, mitt romney doesn t like you. if you re black vot
we ll see if that is open negotiation over the course of those meetings. we ll watch. bill: meantime she could be president obama s secret weapon in 2012. why the first lady, michelle obama, is being called the president s messenger to the middle class. will the strategy work? we ll check in on that. martha: hours away from a debate on capitol hill to repeal the president s health care law. that is big thing going on here today. one of the top republicans in the house, we ve deputy whip peter ross couple joins us live with that story coming up. bill: a terrifying experience for these passengers. wait until you hear their story. what happened in midair that sent several of them to the hospital. i never felt it something like that in the past. basically, with with the noise and the bumps you just think that it is going down. or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert
those who are middle class now. i also mean for those who waited so long for their chance to join the middle class. [applause] and by the way, i know what it takes to put people to work, to bring more jobs and better wages. my plan is based on 25 years of success in business. it s a job recovery plan. now it has five key steps. first, i m going to take full advantage of our energy resources and i will approve the keystone pipeline from canada. low-cost, plentiful, coal, natural gas, oil, and renewables will bring over a million manufacturing jobs back to the united states. [applause] can second, i want to open up new markets for american goods.
programs have failed. i have never heard anyone look around an impoverished neighborhood and say, you know, there is too much free enterprise around here. toop shops, too many jobs, too many people putting money in the bank. what you hear of course, how do we bring in jobs, how do we make good, honest employers want to move in? stay in and with the shape the economy is in today, we re asking that question more and more. free enterprise, free enterprise, is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class. we have seen in recent years what it is like to have less free enterprise. as president, i ll show the good things that can happen when we have more free enterprise, more business activity, more jobs, more opportunity, more paychecks, more savings accounts. on day one, i will begin turning this economy around with a plan for the middle class. and i don t just mean for