While the Washington D.C. press corps focuses obsessively on the debt ceiling issue, the fact remains that unemployment and jobs – and not concerns about how large the deficit is – remains the top issue for Americans.
On Friday, while the President and House Speaker John Boehner blasted each other in dueling news conferences as the talks to address the debt and debt ceiling go on (and on), the man who at this moment in time looks like the Republican Party's top choice to compete for the presidency next year, Mitt Romney, aired a web video attacking Obama on the issue of where are the jobs?
This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.