President Obama's Cleveland speech billed as retort

By GLENN THRUSH

Talk about elevating the Tan Man.

President Obama – who made House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) the butt of numerous tanning-booth jokes – will deliver a major economic address in Cleveland next week in part because that’s where Boehner made his big address last month.

“Speaking in the city where Minority Leader Boehner recently detailed the Republican economic agenda, the President will lay out the choice between his ideas and the failed policies and failed philosophy that led us into this mess,” White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote in a blog post.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs followed with a Twitter message linking to Pfeiffer’s post: “POTUS goes to where Boehner spoke to show choice btwn his ideas & their failed philosophy that got us into this mess.”
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel wasn’t impressed: “The President’s staff seems to have missed the point: the American people don’t necessarily want him to go to Cleveland, they want him to end the spending spree, stop the tax hikes, and create jobs,” he wrote in an email to POLITICO late Friday.

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