Jay-Z used to be a coke dealer, Obama was a cokehead, so I guess there are some similarities.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z repeatedly reminded the crowd that Election Day is tomorrow, but President Obama did but once.
Instead Obama delivered a stump speech virtually identical to those he’s given since re-emerging on the campaign trail after tending to the federal response to Hurricane Sandy.
The rare addition was an acknowledgement that this was his last day of campaigning.
“I’m going to be flying with Bruce Springsteen on the last day that I’ll ever campaign,” he said. “That’s not a bad way to bring it home.”
Obama then went into his familiar riffs about health care, the middle class, women’s health and higher taxes for the wealthy. There were shout-outs to his celebrity endorsers.
“I told Jay-Z the other day, our lives are parallel a little bit. Both of us have daughters and both of us have wives more popular than we are,” he said at the top of his remarks here.
Obama did ask the crowd how many of them have already voted. Jay-Z did too and, apparently unfamiliar with Ohio’s early voting rules that prohibit Election Day Eve voting, urged those who haven’t to do so after the rally.
But while GOP rival Mitt Romney’s crowds have taken to chanting the number of days remaining in the campaign,Obama has stuck to the message of his campaign. He urged the audience, as he always does, to “knock on doors for me” and spoke with a conviction that he will continue as a political leader long after the 2012 elections