Obama: heartland Disenchantment

From MSNBC:
While South Bend, Ind., was abuzz on Sunday over President Barack Obama's commencement address at Notre Dame University, many residents of nearby Elkhart said they are growing impatient as they wait for his grand economic visions to translate into something tangible.
Msnbc.com's Kari Huus interviewed a handful of Elkhart residents Sunday evening at Antonio's restaurant and detected no resentment that Obama didn't make his fourth visit to Elkhart while he was in the area.
In fact, Ryan Dobbs, a former RV worker who is now running a small construction team, said it's probably just as well that he didn't drop by. "
There were how many cops here for him?" he said. "I know the cities and the county are broke. Where is the money coming from to pay for these visits?" "
I'd rather he just talked about Elkhart in a speech at the White House," Dobbs said.
Dobbs, who watched snatches of Obama's Notre Dame address in newscasts that interrupted the basketball game on televisions above the bar, said he's never been a big Obama fan and likened the president to a smooth-talking car salesman. "He can come as many times as he wants. He talks change. Show me change."
"Sometimes it feels like he's still campaigning," said Bob Donegan, who owns and manages commercial and residential properties in Elkhart.
He said residents are still waiting for him to deliver on his promises — especially on the promise of jobs he made in his Feb. 9 visit, when he touted the massive federal stimulus package and insisted that the government must act "quickly and boldly.'
"When you tell people there are going to have jobs, they expect it right away," he said. "The first visit didn't really do anything for us. It didn't bring us any business."'
One customer at Antonio's, Joe Seher, said he had driven the 15 miles to South Bend to protest Obama's economic policies.
"The administration is focused on big companies — AIG, Chrysler," said Seher, who runs a manufacturing company. Meantime, he said, his suppliers are getting killed by the credit crunch. "I don't like Obama's programs, and I don't like him as a human being," he said.