this afternoon, it will reair on fox news, we ll play the en tour debate for you, starting at 2:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. eric: the largest watched debate of also far. president obama is rattling black voters to try and follow him to battle for jobs and opportunity and the president speaking at the congressional black caucus s annual awards dinner. the president telling the crowd to, quote, put on their marching shoes and press forward with him. president barack obama: i know at times that gets folks discouraged. i know. i listen to some of y all. [laughter]. president barack obama: i understand that. and nobody feels that burden more than i do. i expect all of you to march with me and press on! take off your bedroom slippers! put on your marching shoes. shake it off! stop complaining, and stop
me. take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes, shake it off. stop complaining, some grumbling, stop crying, we re going to press on. we ve got work to do, cbc. alisyn: see. dave: stop complaining. alisyn: he s not talking to voters. that was a particular, that was an audience, the congressional black caucus, he he was saying stop you whining, stop your complaining. i thought he was speaking almost directly to maxine waters, says we support of the president, but we re getting tired. getting disenchanted with the president. he was talking to them, take off your bedroom slippers we ve got work to do. clayton: there s grumbling with regards to the minority vote. the washington post says
spend the day in california tomorrow where there will be a jobs round table and stop in denver on the way home tuesday before he took off, he tried rally a crucial part of his base. urging members of the congressional black caucus to stop complaining and start helping. the president: takeoff your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are gonna press on. we got work to do! cbc! reporter: this obama s answer to those in his own party who say he s conceded too much ground to republicans in the budget battles. one prominent republican took aim at the president over his recent jobs appearance at a bridge that badly needs repairing. their approach, after being beat is if to ohio and kentucky and give a speech about a bridge and to declare class warfare as their strategy in terms of solving the economy.
they ve said they re not comfortable with the presumed nominee, not comfortable with perry or romney. the grassroots people have said we like a herman cain. we like a jon huntsman. to a certain degree a ron paul. this doesn t surprise me, not one bit. bottom line to all three of you. give me a yes no. do you think the straw poll will continue winning ways of predicting the gop presidential nominee. they did it three times, reagan, george h.w. bush and bob dole. no. no. robert? no. moving on. here we go. president obama and his new message on jobs. here it is. take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are going to press on. we ve got work to do. all right. that was last night at the congressional black caucus. you should have seen karen s
negotiations he doesn t want negotiations any more with congressional leaders of the republican party. he has proposal he has proposed plans he knows is not going to pass he has asked the super committee to become a committee a job they are not tasked to succeed with this the short time they are given and the debt reduction targets they have to meet. he s going to all these swing states campaigning. he has made it clear his time gauche schticking with his time negotiating with republicans is done. he s campaigning on a confrontational agenda not likely to pass. chris: last night the president spoke before the congressional black caucus which is not in your morning papers. we have a clip and it may give you a sense of the president s mood these days. the president: takeoff your bedroom slippers. put on your march shoes, shake it off, stop complaining, stop