Presidential priorities

5 September 2012 By Daniel Indiviglio

As he begins his re-election campaign in earnest, the U.S. president can show only a middling report card. Despite good marks for stabilizing the banks, he barely passes on debt and jobs. Obama needs to show he can play well with others – the GOP – and do better in fiscal math.

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The U.S. Democratic National Convention kicked off on Sept. 4 in Charlotte. During the festivities, President Barack Obama and his supporters will try to convince voters that he deserves another four-year term.

The president is expected to ask Americans, when he speaks on Sept. 6, for more time to clean up the mess left to him by the prior Republican administration. Although unemployment has declined from its peak of 10 percent in October 2009 to 8.3 percent in July 2012, at that rate it’s a half percentage point higher than when Obama took office.

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