Obama: Labor Day, Milwaukee

UPDATE, September 6, 2010: OBAMA: They talk about me like a dog.
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UPDATE: DETAILS HERE.
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UPDATE: Details on the event still sketchy.

President Barack Obama will be in Milwaukee on Labor Day - his third visit to the area in a little over two months - to talk directly to working families.

Obama will appear at Laborfest on the Maier Festival Grounds. The event, to be held from noon to 7 p.m., is open to the public, but a ticket will be required to see the president. The ticketing procedure is still being worked out.

In addition to Obama, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis and Richard Trumka, president of the national AFL-CIO, will be at the event.

In 2008, Obama appeared at Laborfest as a candidate for president. Instead of his planned speech, then Sen. Obama asked the crowd to remember the victims of Hurricane Gustav.

The festival, held annually, is organized by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council. Sheila Cochran, secretary-treasurer and chief operating officer of the council, said 8,000 people attended the event last year. More people are expected this year.

Cochran said 150 different labor unions will be represented at Laborfest. "I have been told the president wants to talk to working families," Cochran said.

Sure. Obama wants to talk to "working families."

How many "working families" were in the crowd at his very pricey August 16 fundraiser for Tom Barrett?

Working families were shut out of that event.

Obama doesn't care about working families. He cares about holding on to power and keeping the unions in his pocket.

If he really cared about working families, he wouldn't be raising their taxes and destroying jobs. He would be empowering them, not making them dependent on big government and running up historic debt. Obama would be taking steps to get out of the current recession/depression rather than prolonging the misery.
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Again?

Obama is coming to Milwaukee again?

So soon?

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

President Obama is coming back to Milwaukee next Monday for a Labor Day speech, his third visit to southeast Wisconsin in a little over two months.

According to a White House official, the president will talk about the economy at Laborfest, the festival organized by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council. The same event drew Democratic President Bill Clinton during his 1996 re-election campaign.

Wisconsin is a vital state for Democrats and for Obama in a perilous mid-term election cycle. The party is defending the governor's office, Russ Feingold's U.S. Senate seat, both chambers of the state Legislature and at least two U.S. House seats against competitive Republican campaigns.

I think instead of giving a few remarks at Laborfest, Obama should bring the family to Wisconsin and vacation at the Dells.

Photos of Obama at Noah's Ark, slipping and sliding and riding the Scorpion's Tail, would get more press and be more beneficial to the campaigns of the floundering Tom Barrett and Russ Feingold than some dry speech at Laborfest.

BORING!

What's Obama going to say? Is he going to tell the truth?

I'm raising your taxes. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire is bad for the economy. I know it stifles economic growth and investment, but I don't care. More jobs are leaving Wisconsin. Oh, well.

He should definitely go to the Dells. Obama could ride Flash Flood. Maybe not. That might remind Milwaukee flood victims about being denied assistance from FEMA.
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Remember when Obama spoke in Milwaukee on Labor Day 2008?

He gave the crowd a whopping 14-minute speech!

I hope Obama can muster up a little more than that this time.