Terence Samuel says that the president must tackle the unemployment problem:
In between this week’s Afghanistan speech at West Point and next week’s Copenhagen-Oslo double feature, the president fit in a jobs summit at the White House and a symbolic trip to Allentown, Pennsylvania, (where the restlessness was handed down) to talk about getting Americans back to work. It is a task that will likely dominate the rest of Obama‘s first term and play a critical role in whether he can convince voters to award him a second.
Despite the hoopla that preceded the Afghanistan speech and the second-guessing that followed, the Afghanistan policy will not be nearly as politically consequential in the short term as the president’s plan for new job growth.
