Obama Talks Jobs With Everyone — Except Jobless

Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011 03:26 PM
By Henry J. Reske

President Barack Obama seems to have an aversion to the unemployed. On various jobs tours he has taken since the fall elections he has met with business leaders, students, plant works, and even community college presidents, but no one who actually needed a job, The Washington Post reported. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02401.html

Obama has taken eight trips outside of Washington since November and has not met with either groups of unemployed or those representing them. Inquiries to the White House failed to turn up one incident of even a private meeting between the president and an unemployed person, the Post said.

The director of Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity said Obama has reached out to the corporate world since the election. “Where is the olive branch to the working class community, the unions, the everyday folks?â€