Obama Touts Health-Care Law Before Donors While Mum With Voters
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President Barack Obama is using passage of the health-care law to help him get re-elected. He’s just not making the sales pitch in public.
Asked at a Nov. 13 press conference in Kapolei, Hawaii, about whether he was concerned about facing voters without passage of his $447 billion jobs package, an unemployment rate of 9 percent, and voters “wondering about your leadership?,” the president didn’t tout his biggest domestic policy achievement. Instead, he pledged “to just keep on chipping away” at getting parts of the jobs bill passed.