I question the wisdom...
Posted by Rick
Published: April 6, 2011 - 12:17 PM ... of leaving town while a government shutdown looms:
A fiery President Obama insisted Tuesday that if he and congressional leaders couldn't reach a deal to avert a government shutdown, "I want a meeting again tomorrow here at the White House."
"I will invite the same folks that we invited today," he added. "And if that doesn't work, we'll invite them again the day after that. And I will have my entire team available to work through the details of getting a deal done."
Obama's team may not include the president himself. Despite the impasse in Washington over federal spending, the president as of early Wednesday was scheduled to give two speeches outside of Washington: one on energy in the Philadelphia suburbs, then another Wednesday evening to a group of black political activists in New York.
Not just any group of black political activists:
President Obama is making his second visit to the city in as many weeks - and is calling upon an unlikely ally to shore up the support of his political base.
Obama will be speaking Wednesday for the first time as commander in chief at the annual convention of the National Action Network and standing with its founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton - whom the President largely ignored before his 2008 election.
The symbolic speech at the Sheraton in midtown - coming just days after the President held two events in Harlem - indicates that Obama, who is battling slipping poll numbers, is trying to bolster his standing among African-Americans, political scientists said.
"It proves again that 2012 will be very different than 2008," said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. "Then, Obama was very wary of the race issue and of being labeled as a 'black candidate.'"
"But some of the enthusiasm surrounding that election has faded," said Sabato. "He needs an injection of energy and Sharpton can provide some of that, at least in the black community."
I recommend he meet tomorrow with his ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright... and continue his quest to do what he can to transcend race in America.
Again I have to ask... how in hell can anyone take this guy seriously?
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