He's a busy guy, you know:
"Alleged" being the key word there (no actual proof exists, yet the "ferocious attack" continues apace). So with nation suffering under 15 percent real unemployment, and following the slowest job-creation quarter in two years, Obama still can't be bothered to meet with the jobs commission he himself created. Why? Because, as Politico stipulates, it would be pretty awkward. Obama is ignoring their recommendations because he's too busy demonizing those very recommendations on the campaign trail. Consider this fun headline from ABC News: "President to Attack Tax Proposal Also Supported By Members of His Own Jobs and Export Councils." He's also on a rampage against "outsourcing," fabricating charges against Romney while ignoring his own taxpayer-funded outsourcing (see this clip). Several of his commission members run companies that have outsourced American jobs, so meeting with them make for some problematic political optics. Obama defenders will argue that this is just a window-dressing panel anyway, so Obama neglecting them isn't a fair reflection of his commitment to job creation. The problem with that excuse lies -- as is so often the case -- in Obama's own words:
Read more: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/07/18/bad_news_obamas_plate_is_too_full_to_meet_with_hisjobs_council
President Barack Obama’s Jobs Council hasn’t met publicly for six months, even as the issue of job creation dominates the 2012 election. At this point, the hiatus — which reached the half-year mark Tuesday — might be less awkward than an official meeting, given the hornet’s nest of issues that could sting Obama and the council members if the private-sector panel gets together. For starters, there’s the discomfort many business leaders may feel in appearing to embrace the president with his reelection bid in full swing. Then, there’s the fact that some members of the commission have conspicuously declined to endorse him. And that Obama has conspicuously declined to endorse some of their recommendations. And that some of what Obama won’t endorse has been warmly embraced by Republicans, including likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. To cap it all off, several of the companies whose CEOs serve on the panel are involved to some extent in outsourcing — a fact that could undercut the ferocious attack Obama and his campaign are mounting on Romney over his alleged ties to the practice.
"Alleged" being the key word there (no actual proof exists, yet the "ferocious attack" continues apace). So with nation suffering under 15 percent real unemployment, and following the slowest job-creation quarter in two years, Obama still can't be bothered to meet with the jobs commission he himself created. Why? Because, as Politico stipulates, it would be pretty awkward. Obama is ignoring their recommendations because he's too busy demonizing those very recommendations on the campaign trail. Consider this fun headline from ABC News: "President to Attack Tax Proposal Also Supported By Members of His Own Jobs and Export Councils." He's also on a rampage against "outsourcing," fabricating charges against Romney while ignoring his own taxpayer-funded outsourcing (see this clip). Several of his commission members run companies that have outsourced American jobs, so meeting with them make for some problematic political optics. Obama defenders will argue that this is just a window-dressing panel anyway, so Obama neglecting them isn't a fair reflection of his commitment to job creation. The problem with that excuse lies -- as is so often the case -- in Obama's own words:
Read more: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/07/18/bad_news_obamas_plate_is_too_full_to_meet_with_hisjobs_council
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