The Presidential Planner
EmailFrom Sunlen Miller
President Obama will travel to Michigan today to tour and speak to workers at a Chrysler Auto Plant in Detroit and a General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck.
The president is anticipated “to talk about the tough decisions” he made a year ago with the auto industry, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, “a decision that has since resulted in a restructured and turned around auto industry, one that is adding rather than shedding jobs, and a decision in and of itself that likely saved a million jobs and communities — certainly saved communities from economic devastation.”
Gibbs said that he doesn’t think people know the whole story about the auto bailout and that’s what the president will tell today.
“He will tell that story, and will tell it to the workers who work on those lines today because of the sacrifices that they made and the tough decisions that were made here,” Gibbs said, “if people get a sense of what went into these decisions, what resulted in the structured bankruptcies, and then what has resulted in the success of the companies up till this point, I do think there — given all that information, I think people will look at the decision that was made at the end of March of 2009 differently."
More from ABC's Karen Travers and Matt Jaffe HERE.
The President will return to Washington, DC, in the afternoon.
-Sunlen Miller
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The self admitted “mongrel” will travel to Michigan to spin his failing, corrupt, presidency to the people once more..
Obama VS America
Posted by: Yep I said that | July 30, 2010, 8:47 am 8:47 am
“a decision in and of itself that likely saved a million jobs” – Bobby Gibbs
It’s beyond me why when the White House spins that they use such low numbers. Hey Gibbs, what’s wrong with saying it saved two and a half million jobs?
You need to up your game dude.
“Gibbs said that he doesn’t think people know the whole story about the auto bailout and that’s what the president will tell today.” – ABC News
Pfffttt ! ! ! !
There goes my coffee all over my keyboard once again.
Did the Gibbonmiester say that with a straight face?
NoBo never tells the whole story.
He always uses his stories for Social Propaganda.
NoBo is an edit uber-super star! He puts Breitbart to shame.
Posted by: Noz | July 30, 2010, 8:49 am 8:49 am
He better knows what he is loosing in people’s mind,failed to prove his self a good president same old stories using again and again to get publicity in people America.
Posted by: electronic discount | July 30, 2010, 9:12 am 9:12 am
“Gibbs said that he doesn’t think people know the whole story about the auto bailout and that’s what the president will tell today.”
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Well, thanks to ABC News the people do not know the whole story. Wonder if ABC News will ask if it was OK to steal money from legitimate bondholders to give to his union buddies who funneled millions of dollars of union dues into his election campaign. Or wonder if ABC News will ask GM about their fraudulent claim of paying back their “taxpayer loan” by just shuffling money from one account to another. Unfortunately we already know the answer.
Posted by: gk | July 30, 2010, 9:26 am 9:26 am
Saving the UAW was his only goal.. at the expense of non-union taxpayers.. but I’m still in favor of what he did and how he did it.. we couldn’t afford to lose the employment and turn the auto manufacturing industry over to the foreign companies.. and if you remember the context..the foreign competitors want GM and Chrysler to remain in business because of the damage it would have cause to the global parts supply chain.
Posted by: Dontget818 | July 30, 2010, 9:34 am 9:34 am
I wonder when ABC and other Networks will step up to the plate and do a real news story about what happened to the economy and stop fawning over the democratic party. The real news about the current economic crisis is the 1999 Financial Services Moderization Act – A mess made in the last year of the Clinton Administration. The 1999 FSMA replaced the 1939 Glass-Steagall Act which protected consumers and our economy. And the new Finance reform doesn’t go anywhere near far enough – once again lobbyists win.
Posted by: Robin | July 30, 2010, 10:19 am 10:19 am
Speaking of not covering the news,has anyone read or heard a story that today is the day that Maxine Waters will find out if she is facing a trial similar to Charlie Rangel? No,me either.The Journolistas are still in firm control of the old media.
Posted by: bobmac | July 30, 2010, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
Would some “reporter” please ask President Obama when the U.S. taxpayers can expect to get ALL of our auto bailout money paid back?
Hint: The correct answer is: NEVER
Posted by: Dave in colorado | July 30, 2010, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
“I wonder when ABC and other Networks will step up to the plate and do a real news story about what happened to the economy” – Robin
Yeah! and what about the Polar Bears?
Why hasn’t the Media did a story about how the Liberal Polar Bears, while waiting for government assistance, are dying out because of Climate Change but the Conservative Polar Bears, not waiting for anyone to do anything, are doing fine because they are adapting to the changes.
Posted by: Noz | July 30, 2010, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
I think that the migration of the sinking Polar Bear is similar to the northwesterly displacement of Tennessee little poodles.. and the effect that the climate change has had on the poodles’ mating habits.. some poodles are even losing their pair bonding skills due to the change in longitude and latitude.
Posted by: Dontget818 | July 30, 2010, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
“Gibbs said that he doesn’t think people know the whole story about the auto bailout and that’s what the president will tell today.”
When the people finally understand the full story, esp. in a Constitutional context… they wild demand “Jail to the Chief!”…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | July 30, 2010, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Posted by: Stan | Aug 1, 2010 6:15:48 PM
Enumerated powers…
Where exactly do I find in the Constitution the power for the Federal Government to take over a private company, esp while depriving bond holders of their property rights…?
And please don’t start down the Interstate Commerce road… that power has been so abused as to render it a subject of general derision…
Posted by: Quo Warranto? | August 1, 2010, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm