- Jul 30, 2010 Come back anytime, Mr. President (Detroit Free Press) More than a thousand new auto industry jobs are announced. Chrysler had bought the plant from Volkswagen in 1983. Wonder if the Secret Service would trust it. The president does ride in a Detroit product, a Cadillac limo that was delivered to the White House in time for his inauguration. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama pumps up auto workers, drives Chevy Volt (Detroit Free Press) Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who got the biggest burst of applause. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, said the visit was a crass political ploy. "Michigan is suffering. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama: Auto industry on right road (Politico) This plant and your jobs might not exist. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama says U.S. auto industry 'growing strong' after bailout (CNN) Today, U.S. automakers have added more than 55,000 jobs since last June," said Obama. He said both Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Corp. have rebounded from the depths of their government-brokered bankruptcies and are back on track to grow. Ford Motor Co. was the only one of the so-called... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama (Detroit Free Press) Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, who got the biggest burst of applause. Later in an area where workers add certain fasteners and check the welds he and plant manager Pat Walsh. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 A 'View' to a shill (Boston Herald) It was a "View" like no other: The five co-hosts -- Barbara Walters interrupted her medical leave for heart surgery to return for the occasion -- listened respectfully. There was no climbing over each other to yap over this guest. Obama repeatedly criticized a media culture that thrives on... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 New report shows how government bailouts, stimulus helped the economy (The Kansas City Star) Throughout this debate what has been missing is a comprehensive look at what the nation faced without the government response. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Contra Costa governments try to kick-start development by cutting, deferring fees (Contra Costa Times) ...cut developer fees by 25 percent in its central business district and 10 percent citywide, said May Lee, the city's redevelopment housing manager. The citywide cuts expire at the end of the year, while the fee cuts in the downtown last through 2011. Livermore and Pleasanton both deferred... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 People (Contra Costa Times) ..."saved jobs," Obama quickly set her straight, to the whoops and hollerings of a suddenly not-so-impartial audience. "I think the word 'saved' is what's troubling people," Hasselbeck said before Obama jumped in. "It makes a difference, though, if your job was one of the ones that was saved,"... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Detroit Free Press Tom Walsh column (Detroit Free Press) GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcies as leaner companies, repaid loans and stopped losing money. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, leaps to denounce GM at every opportunity, as he did last week when GM bought AmeriCredit, and when GM repaid $6.7 billion in loans ahead of schedule in April. Candice... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama to tout Chrysler, GM repaying aid, adding jobs (Detroit Free Press) He will be joined by top officials, including the CEOs of GM and Chrysler, Gov. In the year since, auto industry employment has increased by 55,000 jobs. This is the fastest year-over-year growth in auto employment since 1999. --Nine of GM's 11 factories, including Hamtramck, skipped summer... more...
- Jul 30, 2010 Obama to visit Dallas during Texas fundraising trip (The Dallas Morning News) While in Austin, Obama also will discuss the economy at an "official" event, a White House official said. He raised money for the DNC last night in New York City and has another fund-raiser tonight in Washington. On August 9, you and a friend could be in Dallas, meeting President Obama. more...
- Jul 30, 2010 President Barack Obama to visit Highland Park on August fundraising trip (The Dallas Morning News) On August 9, you and a friend could be in Dallas, meeting President Obama. John Cornyn of Texas leads the Republican effort to cut into that. It's unclear whether Obama will stump for any candidates on the trip. He lost the 2008 Texas primary and didn't carry the state that fall. White has... more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Obama to Promote Auto Bailout as a Success (New York Times) Obama’s advisers argue that had the president not invested more than $60 billion into General Motors and Chrysler, more than a million jobs would have been lost. Brian Deese, an economic adviser at the White House who played a central role in the auto bailouts under Mr. Ron Bloom, the former... more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Civil rights groups are picking the wrong fight with President Obama (Washington Post) Ruth MarcusThere is, it turns out, something more galling than teachers unions fighting against proposals that would improve education for students in the worst-performing schools. When it comes to education policy, at least, Obama doesn't need to. The squealing from teachers unions, particularly... more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Barack Obama on The View: He's that guy (Washington Post) Alexandra PetriBy Alexandra PetriBarack Obama is that guy.You know the guy I mean. I don’t. If my president goes on daytime television, he might at least act like he’s on daytime television. It’s not for substantive discussion of jobs reform. more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Obama to tout Detroit prospects, payback (Detroit Free Press) ...administration lent GM $13.4 billion and Chrysler $4 billion in December 2008, money Obama auto task force officials have maintained was unlikely to ever be recovered. Obama will stop at Jefferson North first, followed by a quick tour around GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the automaker... more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Obama searches for common ground on The View (The Philadelphia Inquirer) And they were. Special guest yesterday on the late-morning talk show: President Barack Obama, the first sitting president to make a personal appearance on a daytime TV talker. The View knew. The media president. As Hasselbeck told Obama, "We are a very divided States of America." Obama... more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Obama talks race, pop culture on 'The View' (Boston Herald) It was a "View" like no other: The five co-hosts -- Barbara Walters interrupted her medical leave for heart surgery to return for the occasion -- listened respectfully. Behar criticized Fox News for "hijacking the narrative." Obama replied, "I volunteered for this job. more...
- Jul 29, 2010 Obama: We need to see results in the classroom (USA Today) Former law professor Barack Obama became a policy defense attorney today, arguing on behalf of his education policy to the National Urban League. But all I'm asking in return -- as a president, as a parent and as a citizen -- is some measure of accountability. more...
