TEXT " I think the First Lady would have been and should have been the lead here," said the RNC Chair. "Let her go and sell Chicago. But the goal should be creating not job opportunities seven years from now but job opportunities today. And I think that what the president is doing is not necessarily helpful and doesn't, in my view instill the confidence in the American people that the focus is there on jobs, wealth creation and moving us beyond a recession to prosperity." Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/steele-rips-obama-for-mak_n_302903.html At today's White House, press
Q Your response to Chairman Steele's criticism about the President going to Copenhagen? MR. GIBBS: Who's he rooting for? (Laughter.) Is he hoping to hop a plane to Brazil and catch the Olympics in Rio? (Laughter.) Maybe it's Madrid.
Gibbs Questions Patriotism of Opponents of Obama's Olympics Lobbying citizens of the world who realize that No longer do we have the luxury of indulging our differences to the exclusion of the work that we must do together