President Obama will be here in Cincinnati again today at an outdoor event at Eden Park, announcing a new trade case against China over auto parts, always a good sell here.
President Barack Obama brings his re-election campaign and message about rebuilding the middle class back to Cincinnati today, to Eden Park.
His speech is expected at about 12:30 p.m. in Seasongood Pavilion. He’ll reiterate his emphasis on the middle class and “highlight the clear choice in this election between moving our country forward to an economy built from the middle out or returning to the same top-down economics that failed middle-class families in the past.”
If he’s smart (and he is) he’ll have that big KOI Auto Parts warehouse off I-71 northwest of the park in the background, or at least point it out to the pool reporters there during his speech, or both.
As I said, Hamilton County is most likely going to decide if Obama wins Ohio or not. There’s a reason why the President has made two personal campaign stops in less than two months here, and I’m betting he’ll be back at least once again before November 6, probably a big rally down the home stretch like the one I was at four years ago. He became the first Democrat to take Hamilton County since 1964 then, he’ll need to do so again to win the state.
Meanwhile, the Enquirer is complaining about the traffic. Already.
Expect traffic delays today on Interstate 71/75 and the Brent Spence Bridge as President Obama makes his way from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
While the U.S. Secret Service and Cincinnati police do not divulge the presidential motorcade’s exact route for security reasons, Obama usually flies into CVG and travels into Cincinnati along northbound I-71/75.
Which is true, but not until 11 AM or so, I’d expect, still it wouldn’t be an Enquirer story about Obama being in town without complaining about the traffic. Maybe he’ll stop by Gold Star or Empress Chili this time, since he was at Skyline in July. Equal opportunity chili eater and all that.
But I’m glad to see the President taking campaigning here seriously. He knows it’s nowhere close to a done deal yet, no matter what Politico has to say this morning.
fuzed
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Judd Legumm tweet
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ROFL
jeffreyw
The Big Picture
Jerzy Russian
Does the paper complain about the traffic when a major Republican candidate drops by?
Hunter Gathers
Keep punching until the bell rings. No matter how much the peanut gallery bitches about how mean and partisan you are.
Todd
Meh. Cincinnati sweet chili. It is only palatable if you add enough piles of cheese, onions and hot sauce to tamp down the dessert-like characteristics.
Y’all have built some outlets in Louisville, but here, we prefer a savory, robust man’s chili.
Todd
@jeffreyw:
Actually, it is simpler than all that.
Romney reminds everybody (Democrats and Republicans alike) of the CEO who hires the really expensive consultants to make recommendations to fire the assembly workers, shortstaff the customer service area, cheapen the product and slash the middle tier management on the Friday before Christmas. Then glibly, he wishes everybody good luck with a grin before paying himself a handsome bonus for his farsighted leadership that enables him to make the hard decisions.
The difference is that a large number of Republican voters are willing to swallow their disgust at voting for such a loathesome creature because the President is an
-islamofascist
-Kenyan
-son of Frank Davis
-Marxist
-crony capitalist
-communist
-masterfully plotting
-weak
-atheist
-dolt
who also happens to be near.
jibeaux
I could never be president, because I cannot choke down that chili.
JenJen
I’m pretty bummed I couldn’t get off work today to see the President at Eden Park. I went to a huge rally of his at Ault Park here in Cincinnati around this time in 2008 and I’ll never forget it.
Cincinnati Chili RAWKS, to all the haters. :-)
NCSteve
Enquirer story fixed: “The Secret Service says that this thing we totally don’t remember that they say happened in Dallas in 1963 established that publishing a map of the of route of a presidential visit in advance is a really bad idea, but as a service to
would-be assassinspatriotic Americans in our readership, here’s our best guess.”Schlemizel
@Jerzy Russian:
Damn I hate all Presidential visits. Lived through daddy, CLinton, Boy Blunder and Obama visits & hated them all. They managed to make a mess of traffic and make commuting a living hell for hours before and after. There has to be a better way.
I am currently drinking all the sweet, sweet, bitter gooper tears. I hope for another 6 weeks of “Willard can’t win” and several nights of the long knives as those bastards eat each other. If there is a meatball in heaven this will so depress the base that they either don’t vote or piss it away on some third party nut job. Having the House back and not losing the Senate would be more reward than I dare ask but boy do I plead – rAmen!
Todd
@jibeaux:
I’ve never heard anybody come up with a credible excuse for that swill.
Todd
@NCSteve:
I kinda of like the whole notion of varied routes. Back during Bubba’s administration, a bunch of people wound up guessing at his route here, and hung out in huge numbers for a glimpse. I was walking back to my car after a deposition (arms full of files and crap) and was at a non-descript corner when here comes the limo with Bubba on my side a few feet away – he gave me a big ol’ grin and waved.
That was just plain cool.
Legalize
It wouldn’t be Cincinnati without the usual suspects complaining about traffic / parking / weather / new iPhones, etc. Cincinnati is the municipal embodiment of an old man shaking his fist at the clouds.
rlrr
@Legalize:
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it’s always twenty years behind the times.
— attributed to Mark Twain
JenJen
@rlrr: That quote has been attributed in various forms about various cities to everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Will Rogers to Mark Twain, but it is verifiable that Mark Twain really did write “The Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children,” a quote that still rings true.
Legalize
I got to see the President the last time he was in Cincinnati. There’s nothing cooler than when the President of the United States walks into the room – you have no idea when its going to happen when you’re sitting there waiting.
Napoleon
Oh, I really have to take issue with this. A vote in Montgomery County, Richland County, Cuyahoga County or any of the 88 Ohio counties count just as much as any other vote. Obama and Biden have been in NEOhio a bunch of times in the last few months, and the last 2 Dem presidential campaigns ended with a rally in Cleveland the night before the election (in both cases with Springsteen being the entertainment).
1badbaba3
I wonder what the annoying orange will say about the darkness on the edge of town? Expiring minds want to know.
LanceThruster
I’ve heard OvenMitt will be in LA but my rotten tomato launcher doesn’t have the range.
JenJen
@Napoleon: I agree, and would even argue that if the President is hunting for Ohio votes, he might find a few more in Montgomery County (Dayton) than Hamilton County (Cincinnati). Even a vote here or there in harder-to-find Butler and Clermont will be crucial. I feel terribly sorry for my liberal friends up in those hinterlands.
I agree that I think he’ll wrap up the campaign in Cleveland again this year. He also held a HUGE rally at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati on the Sunday before the election in 2008, and he did pull it off, winning Hamilton County, so I’d like to see him come back down here again right before the election.
But maybe I’m just being a greedy Ohioan who enjoys all the electoral attention.
Zandar
@Napoleon:
I still have to say that Hamilton County can win or lose it for either candidate, depending on if the turnout is 2010 or 2008.
Although it seems like there’s going to be enough of a blue margin that Hamilton County may be the icing on the cake rather than the deciding factor.
It is however where Romney can do the most damage to Obama.
Tone In DC
@LanceThruster:
LULz.
Try it anyway. Maybe you’ll hit Oily Taitz, Michele “Dazed and confused” Bachmann, Liz “I’m melting!” Cheney or Donald Trump’s hair.
JenJen
Just saw Air Force One!! Very cool. That is one bad-ass aircraft.
LanceThruster
@Tone In DC:
Fire in the hole!
Cris (without an H)
In defense of the traffic complaints, at least it’s a local paper saying something useful to its local readers.
Kind of reminds me of a speech Ralph Nader gave about how vacuous TV news is, where one of his prime examples was how many times they talk about the weather. It’s a reasonable point, but on the other hand, the weather is one thing you know affects everybody who tunes in.
Rome Again
@fuzed:
That’s an oxymoron.
Rome Again
@Tone In DC:
Orly Taitz was in Kansas today. As usual, she didn’t get what she wanted. :P
Rome Again
@Jerzy Russian:
Never!
Grant Gramley
I am sorry, that has interfered… At me a similar situation.