President Barack Obama on Monday offered a preview of what’s being billed as a major economic address, promising that it will be a “pretty good speech.”
Addressing some of his biggest supporters at an event held by Organizing for Action, the group that sprung out of his campaign operation, Obama said Wednesday’s speech in Galesburg, Ill. will serve to get elected officials and the press to focus on the economy instead of the “the distractions and the phony debates and nonsense that somehow passes for politics these days.”
“Here’s the thing: It will be a pretty good speech,” Obama said, according to the Associated Press. “But I’ve given some pretty good speeches before. And things still get stuck here in Washington, which is why I’m going to need your help.”
According to a White House pool report, Obama admitted that it will be difficult to win congressional support for his proposals.
“Of course, everything is very difficult to get through this Congress,” he said, per the pool report.
