March 15th, 2012
01:48 PM ET
Biden speech leads campaign fight for Obama(CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday harshly attacked the economic policies of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, calling them a threat to the American middle class. "If you give any one of these guys the keys to the White House, they will bankrupt the middle class once again," Biden told autoworkers in Ohio, a key battleground state for Obama's re-election bid in November. The speech by Biden at a United Auto Workers hall in Toledo was the first of four planned in coming weeks as Obama's top campaign surrogate, and he went after the Republican candidates by name - something the president has not done. Read the complete story at CNN.com 
March 15th, 2012
01:45 PM ET
Big day for camp Obama: VP Biden, documentary (CNN) – In his remarks Thursday at the United Auto Workers Local 12 Hall in Toledo, Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden will mention the Republican candidates by name, per a senior Democratic official. This is a departure for Team Obama. To date, they have stayed away from outright combat by routinely declining to name the GOP candidates. Now the president's closest surrogate is dropping the fig leaf. Read the full story on CNN's Political Ticker. 
February 22nd, 2011
01:15 PM ET
Obama's Cleveland business chatCLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) - The president traveled to northeast Ohio today to hold a small business forum with members of his Cabinet, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and economic advisors Austan Goolsbee and Gene Sperling. "How can America help you succeed, so you can help America succeed?" President Obama asked a roomful of about 150 Cleveland small business owners, evoking JFK and tweaking the famous "ask not what your country can do for you" line. FULL POST 
February 22nd, 2011
12:22 PM ET
Did you know...? WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Obama hit the road to Ohio today. He's been to the Buckeye State more than a dozen times since taking office. But did you know that Ohio boasts of being the home of more presidents than any other state? Eight U.S. presidents were claim Ohio as home, making it the "Mother of Modern Presidents." But can you name them? Click below to see the entire list.
October 31st, 2010
11:17 PM ET
Obama rallies in Ohio CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) – President Barack Obama on Sunday implored Democrats to get out and vote this week in his final campaign speech for the upcoming congressional elections. With his party expected to lose seats in both chambers, and perhaps its House majority, Obama told a rally at Cleveland State University that the only way to ensure continued policies intended to help working-class Americans was to keep Democrats in power. For the complete story, read CNN's Political Ticker
October 31st, 2010
04:44 PM ET
Remarks of the President and Vice President at DNC "Moving America Forward" rallyDelivered at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, Cleveland! (Applause.) Hello, folks. How you doing, ladies? It’s great to see you all. Man, I want to look like you when I grow up, man, you're looking awful good. (Applause.) Good to see you. Hey, folks, it’s great to be with you. (Applause.) It’s really good to be back in Ohio with the best governor in the United States of America, Ted Strickland. (Applause.) |
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