JAMESTOWN, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama appealed anew Tuesday for Americans to put pressure on Republican members of Congress to support his jobs legislation, declaring that "we are in this together."
And Obama said he hit the road to take his case directly to the people for a simple reason: "I'm the president." On the second-day of a three-day tour to continue pushing his ideas for creating jobs, Obama acknowledged he's been asked why he is taking time to ride a bus through small-town North Carolina, a traditionally Republican state that he won in 2008 and hopes to win again.
"I'm not the Democratic president or the Republican president," Obama said at a community college in Jamestown, N.C. " … I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat because we're all Americans."
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