Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Obama Speaks on the Economy in Ohio Sept. 8

Obama will speak about the economy tomorrow at 2:10 pm eastern (updated) at Cuyahoga Community College in Parma, Ohio. He's going to propose tax write-offs.
The speech is likely to be live streamed here. Not other details yet aside from this bit of humor from today's press briefing:
Q And also, to what extent is tomorrow’s speech a direct response to Congressman Boehner’s speech on the economy in Ohio a couple of weeks ago?

MR. GIBBS: Well, it’s certainly -- it’s in the same city and I think the President will use that opportunity to contrast a vision of returning to a decade of policy and value decisions that got us into this mess, which if you look back at what Congressman Boehner said in that speech, he seemed to lay out a strong predicate for the very same type of decisions that had been made over the past 10 years that got us into this mess. I anticipate the President will spend a decent amount of time discussing it.

Q And the venue, a community college versus the City Club?

MR. GIBBS: That I -- look, I think it’s in this case Cleveland and Cleveland.

Q Did you choose Cleveland because Boehner had given his speech there?

MR. GIBBS: Yes. (Laughter.) I didn’t want to put you through the same emotional racking that I just put Hans through. So I just figured “yes” was probably an easier answer.

Yes, sir.