Barack Obama

Barack Obama: GALESBURG, Ill. - President Barack Obama sought to build momentum for looming fiscal fights with Republicans in Congress, declaring in a speech that the economy would be the "highest priority" of his second term. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. A day after he kicked off the tour in Illinois and Missouri, Obama was travelling Thursday to a seaport in Jacksonville, Florida, to yet again decry the wide gulf between his vision for a new American prosperity driven by a burgeoning middle class and the intense gridlock snarling Congress. President Barack Obama waves after speaking about his vision for rebuilding the economy, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at Knox College in Galesburg Ill. The president repackaged his economic message, a six-point plan for putting a floor under the country's diminishing middle class, and lashed out at opponents for creating "an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals." AP Photo/Seth Perlman The president's remarks did not include new policy proposals or fresh solutions for addressing the partisan divide in Washington ahead of potential showdowns over raising the U.S. borrowing limit and curtailing across-the-board federal budget cuts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.