If President Obama really is pivoting back to the economy, his political organization doesn’t seem to have gotten the message.
On Monday, at a speech for Organizing for Action, the President reinforced a White House statement that he’d begin a speaking tour, with the goal of refocusing national attention on the economy. At the time, I noticed that even as he and the White House were promoting the tour, Obama was derogating the effectiveness of his speeches:
Then, today, I got an email from OFA, asking me to set aside a day in August for one of their “Actions.” Here’s the calendar:
It’s the president’s usual list of political priorities: immigration “reform,” gun control, global warmism, and a sudden defensiveness about Obamacare, which appears to be about as settled as the “climate science.”
Not much about the economy there, is there?