Speaking at a General Electric plant in Wisconsin today, President Obama encouraged young people to consider training programs for skilled manufacturing work. “I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art-history degree,” The president immediately added: “Now, nothing wrong with an art-history degree—I love art history—I don’t want to get a bunch e-mails from everybody.”
This comment was reported by a number of newspapers, including the Washington Post and the National Review, whose headlines referred to the President alienating his “base.”
That huge voting bloc that swung the presidential elections may want that email address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
