About an hour before the final Democratic debate began on Tuesday evening, I picked up my Obama yard sign and put it out front.
It’s still there, and I’m still supporting him — but I’m just a tad unhappy with some of his recent statements in Ohio.
Actually, it’s more than just a tad.
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Added: Although I covered a lot of ground in the TMV post linked above, there are many articles out today that I simply didn’t have the space (or the energy) to link. This, though, from the LA Times, would have fit right in (my emphasis):
The president’s job is to take the long view of what’s best for the country as a whole. Although it’s hard to pinpoint jobs lost or created because of NAFTA, U.S. employment has grown far beyond even pessimistic estimates of the trade deal’s costs. You wouldn’t know that listening to Obama, who declared in a recent speech that “trade deals like NAFTA ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage.” His stance is echoed by Clinton, who scolded Obama’s campaign for distributing a flier that said she had called NAFTA a “boon” to the economy.
There really is more to all of this than Ohio. I really hope Obama remembers that sooner rather than later.