in north carolina. the crowd of only a few hundred was not so grand. considering this is a critical battleground. still, the crowd was hively, chanting yes, we can. even has the president concedeed no, he can t get congress to pass his whole jobs bill now. maybe they just couldn t understand the whole thing all at once. so we re going to break it up to bite-size pieces. the white house insists the taxpayer finance tour is not a series of campaign events. even as the president posed with the cute kid at a not a campaign event in a barbecue joint. at the asheville airport that could get runway repair from the jobs bill, folks chanted four more years at not a campaign event. i appreciate the four more years but right now i am thinking about the next 13 months. because yes, we got an election coming up, but that election is a long ways away and a lot of folks can t wait. lofty goal but in the next breath he previewed the 2012