This is bound to create mixed feelings in people who care about South Carolina:
Gov. Nikki Haley will balance her time between governing South Carolina and stumping for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney over the next two months.
Haley’s target audience? Women voters, a critical voting bloc for Romney because of polls that show women favor incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama by a double-digit margin.
“Governor Haley has a very full schedule of job creation and economic development meetings and events in the next two months,” said Rob Godfrey, Haley’s spokesman. “But as much as her schedule permits, she does plan on helping the Romney-Ryan ticket. …
“Mixed feelings” in that our state could use some leadership in trying to pull out of, not only a recession, but our historic near-last ranking in by so many measures. On the other hand, if the only governor we’ve got is Nikki Haley, well… maybe she might as well run off and have her picture made some more, and leave us alone.
I find myself torn between the two ways of looking at it.
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“Governor Haley has a very full schedule of job creation …”
Now that is just too funny, at least if the situation wasn’t so damn serious. We continue to languish well above the national unemployment rate and she has the brass to make this claim.
President Obama has injected tax, health insurance, hiring, capex, and environmental uncertainties into U.S. business plans.
While Gov. Haley has seen 25,800 jobs move into good ol’ SC since her election, many of her constituents realize the greatest impediment to adding “durable” productive jobs (private sector employment lasting and expanding over the next 5 years, as opposed to Solyndra and government jobs) has been current president’s summary executive orders.
God speed, Governor Haley! Your time away from Columbia requires less than 2% (1 state / 50) of the explanation required for the 150 campaigning trips Obama has been made from D.C. during his chaotic regime.
Since most the job creation events she has time to attend are in Europe for air shows, or japan I can do without that kind of help.
I think at this point she is merely playing out the string as the governor here and setting herself up for some move to the national stage.
Maybe a talking head, lobbying or office somewhere. Then again all in all its more about how the last year or so goes. This will turn on the money pumping up her reelection coffer as well.
What is even more amusing is that she also can’t find time to speak with the tire industry – the week after the election. Wasn’t it all her efforts that lead to the new Michelin, Continental and Bridgestone plants?
Can’t make time for voters, can’t make time for job creators. Can make time for personal networking… nothing like a hungry self-promoter in action.
We get it, MS, you hate Nikki Haley. Once more, compared to Obama’s last 4 years, our Governor is doing a fine job for us. For example:
It seems President Obama has not been attending his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country.
“During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.”
By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.”
– Juan
And where did that get us? The worst terrorist attack in history, that’s where. It’s results Juan not some record of attending meetings.
No, Juan has a point. There’s nothing the president does in a typical day that is more important than his intel briefing.
But it does seem as though President Obama is staying on top of security matters — from his personal kill list to keeping a hard, realistic eye on China.
This morning in the WSJ, John Bolton sounded ominous tones about China. But the thing is, this president has already begun shifting our future strategic preparations from the Mideast to the Pacific Rim, because of that very factor.
“John Bolton sounded ominous tones”
From the Department of Redundancy Department
But the thing is, this president has already begun shifting our future strategic preparations from the Mideast to the Pacific Rim, because of that very factor.
-Brad
Too bad. We don’t need to antagonize the Chinese. Afterall they hold trillions of dollars of our debt.
After SC Governot Nikki Haley returns from her Japanese vacation, she’ll probably be spending the months leading to the election in the battleground state of Hawaii campaigning for Mitt.
Results matter. GWB attended both Yale and Harvard without imbibing much learning discipline (which is a different matter from his ability to focus, which I don’t deny). But I agree with Brad about the need to shift our focus to the Pacific Rim.