Tagged: Barack Obama

While Republican candidates continue to slug it out for their party's White House nomination, President Obama is getting a head start on the general election.

Obama's grassroots campaign is already hard at work with volunteers hosting house parties and staffing phone banks to find and mobilize the president's supporters. The campaign has opened five offices in Virginia, and that's not counting the basement of Sue Langley's house in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Vienna, where more than a dozen volunteers assembled this past weekend.

President Obama visited Nashua Community College in New Hampshire today to discuss his plans to reduce foreign oil dependence. The president's official speech released by the White House appears below in its entirety.

 President Barack Obama was in New Hampshire today talking about energy. As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Josh Rogers reports, the president said the country needs to increase oil production while also investing in newer sources of energy.

Billed an official visit, at times the President’s stop had the feel of campaign rally. Mr. Obama told the crowd he knew NH’s "political bull detector" was sharp, and urged voters to be wary of election year promises.

In a speech to a convention of United Auto Workers, President Obama vigorously defended his administration's bailout of the auto industry.

Without naming his Republican opponents, a combative President Obama took shots at their opposition to the bailout.

President Obama will travel to Nashua Thursday to talk about the economy. It will be his first trip to the state since November, when he visited Manchester Central high school to promote extending the payroll tax cut as part of a jobs bill.

The trip come a week after Vice President Joe Biden stumped for the President’s reelection at the New Hampshire Institute for Art. Biden was on a three-state jaunt raising money for Democrats.