53ish Minutes In Ohio

And nothing new

That was some ‘major’ economic speech Obama gave in Ohio today. Pardon me while I fight back a yawn. If I had to sum it up in one word, it would be recycled. I think he meant for it to have some sort of feel of humility to it — trying to show he can relate to average Americans — but it came off more like Oliver asking for more gruel in the form of a rhetorical question. If I had to sum it up on one image:

This clip below is about all you need to see. He makes it seem like we should all be kissing his feet we have over 8% unemployment:

If you must, Breitbart has the whole thing here.

Useful Links:

• Obama blows into Ohio for campaign speech on the economy 
• Obama’s Big Economy Speech: No Hope, No Change
• Romney Bush Repeatedly Circles Obama Campaign Site Hanking Horn
• Rush on Obama’s economic speech: I haven’t laughed like this in too long folks!
• Obama: Romney Thinks I’m Not Rich Enough To Be President
• Gamechanger: Obama rocks America with speech everyone’s heard 50 times before; Update: Panned by … MSNBC?
• Jonathan Alter: One of the Least Successful Speeches I’ve Seen Barack Obama Give 
• Working Class Warrior To Hit Two Star-Studded NYC Fundraisers Tonight, One With Anna Wintour And Sarah Jessica Parker, Another With Mariah Carey

Miscellaneous Fun:

I had some fun while listening along to the droning POTUS. Check out #ObamasSpeechIn4Words for some laughs. Here are a few of the highlights from conversations I followed on Twitter in a loose chronology following the speech timeline:

RT @rorycooper: Obama speech Part One: Everything Bush did was evil. Part Two: Except for the stuff I now want to take credit for.

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Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) June 14, 2012

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Obama spinning faster than an Amish grandma making sweaters for Christmas.

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el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) June 14, 2012

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RT @rorycooper: Obama speech Part One: Everything Bush did was evil. Part Two: Except for the stuff I now want to take credit for.

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Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) June 14, 2012

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Obama spinning faster than an Amish grandma making sweaters for Christmas.

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el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) June 14, 2012

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This speech is doing just fine.

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David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 14, 2012

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Annnnnnd the President just called for defense cuts.

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Moe Lane (@moelane) June 14, 2012

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That's some awesome right there RT @galtsgirl: ----> <3 RT @michellemalkin: Obama speech-writing is a green job: 100 percent recyclable.

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Snarky Basterd (@Snarky_Basterd) June 14, 2012

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RT @Politisite: Interestingly, President Obama did NOT send a copy of his speech to those on White House Press list

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WhiteHousePressCorps (@whpresscorps) June 14, 2012

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Obama bemoaning "the other side will spend $1 billion on ads ..." from the dude who pledged to raise $1 billion reelection cash.

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Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 14, 2012

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Calls budget and tax plans the "biggest source of gridlock" in Washington today and says voters are the only ones who can break it.

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Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 14, 2012

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Jonathan Alter on MSNBC: "One of the least successful speeches I've seen Obama give." Way too long, 54 minutes, lost audience.

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  (@jimgeraghty) June 14, 2012

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Right now, @MMFA is digging up dirt on Jonathan Alter. Will be published before COB today. #tcot #p2

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RB (@RBPundit) June 14, 2012

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This speech is so long the unemployment rate went up another tenth of a percent due to population growth.

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AOTUS (@ObamasAutopen) June 14, 2012

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Longest speech saying nothing ever:

Pres Obama ends 53-minute speech telling supporters "this November you can provide a mandate for the change we need right now."

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Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 14, 2012

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#ObamaSpeechin4Words I Heard This Already

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Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) June 14, 2012

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Following President Obama's 54 minutes of nothing, please share our new website. ObamasNewIdeasToFixEconomy.com #ObamaMulligan

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RNC (@GOP) June 14, 2012

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@sullydish "A home run. Simply constructed, carefully reframed, aggressive while positive. A winning message" Anna Wintour tutoring? #tcot

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Lady Liberty 1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) June 14, 2012

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Soopermexican owes me a new keyboard:

Made me eat someone's face. #downtwinkles RT @JonahNRO: So how was Obama's speech?

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el SOOPer (@SooperMexican) June 14, 2012