sake of all those families that are struggling now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. 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. stop grumbling and stop crying. we are going to press on. we have work to do. cbc. so, john, i wanted to show you one of our producers, todd, highlighted had last night. i wanted to show this to you. i thought it was great catch. this is the verbiage, text of that address, as reported by politico. do we have the politico one first? this is him. there it is. you see it. you have to stop complaining, grumbling, crying, we are going to proceeds. this is work we have to do. this is how the ap transcribed
benefits. it s been really at 400 or higher since april. that s really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that s better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn t technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had economic growth and economists are telling me that for the third quarter there was growth there, as well. so, you have an economy that is growing and you have fewer people than expected who filed for jobless benefits. it sounds like a couple of nonnegatives, which is, but taken together, that s positive for the market, at least this morning, kyra. we ll watch all the numbers and we ll know in 2
bill: on saturday night president obama spoke to the congressional black caucus. he was there to rally the folks but he may have bruised some feelings. march with me and press on. take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop glum grom bling, stop crying. we are going to press on. we have got work to do. cbc. i found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus and certainly they are pushing him on immigration and despite the fact that he has appointed sotomayor to the supreme court, he has an office for excellence in hispanic education right in the white house. they are still pushing him and
bill: on saturday night president obama spoke to the congressional black caucus. he was there to rally the folks but he may have bruised some feelings. march with me and press on. take off your bedroom slippers. put on your marching shoes. shake it off. stop complaining. stop glum grom bling, stop crying. we are going to press on. we have got work to do. cbc. i found that language a bit curious because the president spoke to the hispanic caucus and certainly they are pushing him on immigration and despite the fact that he has appointed sotomayor to the supreme court, he has an office for excellence in hispanic education right in the white house. they are still pushing him and
i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. 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. stop grumbling. stop crying. we are going to press on. we ve got work to do. cbc. that was president obama this weekend at the congressional black caucus dinner where 2008 s fired up and ready to go became 2011 s please stop complaining and take off your slippers. some in the audience were perpl perplexed. i don t know who the president was talking to. and he certainly could not have been talking to the unemployed people. they re not just grumbling. they re asking for help. i think he got carried away. got off script and got a little bit, you know, beside himself.