Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Turning right off the interstate: How Obama and I settled the teachers strike

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Turning right off the interstate: How Obama and I settled the teachers strike:

Turning right off the interstate: How Obama and I settled the teachers strike

by Mike Klonsky

Driving through southern Ohio to speak to students at Kenyon College and Bowling Green University I hear the steady stream of right-wing radio and see the dozens of anti-Obama billboards paid for by Clint Eastwood and his wing-nut superpac. In the towns, there's more of a mix of Obama and Romney signs and of course, the university towns are mostly Obama. Those in the know think that Obama will narrowly win Ohio. I'm not so sure.

The main media spokesman for the Republican Party and for national conservatives is of course, Rush Limbaugh. Here's what his 20-30 million listeners, mostly small town and rural, heard from Rush about the Chicago teachers strike:

It was all a set-up, says Rush, so that Pres. Obama could step into the fray and settle it by getting union head,