U.S. Is 'Through The Worst Of Yesterday's Winds,' Obama Says
President Obama on Wednesday launched another effort to lay out his vision for how to strengthen the U.S. economy with a midday speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., in which he hit themes familiar to those who followed his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
While focusing on issues such as the need to continue overhauling the nation's health care system, to make education more affordable, to fix bridges and other infrastructure and to create solid, well-paying jobs, Obama also criticized those Republicans in Washington who he believes have been focused on "political posturing and phony scandals."
We followed along and posted updates. Late this afternoon, Obama is due to speak in Warrensburg, Mo., at the University of Central Missouri.
Update at 2:18 p.m. ET. At The End, Talk Of "Yesterday's Winds" And Courage.
As he finishes, Obama quotes poet Carl Sandburg, who was born in Galesburg:
"I speak of new cities and new people ... The past is a bucket of ashes ... yesterday is a wind gone down, a sun dropped in the west ... there is ... only an ocean of tomorrows, a sky of tomorrows."