Again speaking to our nation’s yutes, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) told 35,000 people who turned out for a campus rally that they shouldn’t be disillusioned by the sour economy (due to his failed economy policies) or slow pace of (socialist) change in Washington and that Republicans were offering no better solutions.

Scooter and Michelle (ma belle) appeared at an outdoor rally at Ohio State University on Sunday night as part of his yute emphasis, designed to sway young minds full of mush to turn out for the midterm election Nov. 2.

The first couple got a raucous, sycophantic welcome, with the crowd repeatedly affirming their remarks with shouts of “Yes we can!” and “We love you!”

Having already alienated and lost some of his early supporters, Obama actually admitted that job losses and home foreclosures had made it tough for Democrats to retain the buoyant sense of optimism touched off by his election nearly two years ago.

Scooter implored the college kids not to be apathetic. (In other words, he’s desperately trying to get Pookie off the couch.) Republicans, he said, are “counting on you to forget who caused the mess in the first place. And now they … want you to believe the election is a referendum on the economy, a referendum on me.”

Imagine that.  It’s not just the Republican Party who believes that, Scooter.  It’s the overwhelming majority of the American people…as you’re about to find out.
Attempting to shift the blame (again) to former President George W. Bush, Obama said:

It’s not like we didn’t try what they’re peddling. We tried it for eight years. It didn’t work. … Ohio, it’s up to you to tell them we do not want what they’re selling. We’ve been there before and we are not going back.

Earlier in the day, the Obamas spoke at an afternoon fundraising event for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who is in a tough race against former Republican congressman (and Fox News host ) John Kasich.

I know there are times when probably it’s hard to recapture that sense of possibility.  It’s hard sometimes to say, ‘Yes we can.’ You sit thinking, ‘You know, maybe. I don’t know.’ It’s not as inspiring a slogan.

He complained repeatedly about Republicans, bringing up Abraham Lincoln at one point and desperately claiming that the 16th president would have trouble winning the Republican nomination if he were a candidate today.

Scooter said:

You know that’s true.

And the Liberally academically indoctrinated college kids laughed.

Obama is desperately crisscrossing the country in the run-up to the midterm election, trying to fire up whatever Democratic base is left and plaintively reminding them that his socialist agenda hinges on the party retaining control of Congress.  He is so desperate, that he is hoping to get a boost from his newly-proud-of-America, Maria Antoinette-ish wife.

Not since the 2008 campaign have the Obamas campaigned side by side. Michelle Obama introduced her husband to the 350 people gathered under a tent outside the home of Carole and David Carr, owner of Brennan Industries. Tickets ranged from $750 to $5,000, the Strickland campaign said.

Wearing a mask of humility before the big-money donors, the first lady described her husband as:

a very handsome young man, the love of my life, even though he doesn’t always think it…and, more importantly, the president of the United States.

When it was his turn to speak, Obama rushed to correct her:

It’s not true that more importantly I am the president of the United States. More importantly, I am Michelle Obama’s husband and Malia and Sasha’s father.

So it’s fun having her along on this road trip. You know, usually I am all by myself and I listen to my iPod. We had a wonderful conversation on the way here and she’s telling me what I should do. It’s true.

Again, the brainwashed college kids laughed.

Obama said, laughing:

You think I’m joking. I’m not. I have witnesses.

 As of this trip, Obama has visited Ohio, a perennial swing state, 11 times as president.  In spite of, or, probably because of this, Democrats are not doing very well in the Buckeye State.

 The Ohio Poll conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati finds that Kasich is leading Strickland by 8 percentage points.

The same poll showed that former Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) was leading his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, by 22 percentage points in the race for a Senate seat.

In spite of a Rasmussen poll released this weekend predicting that the Republicans will pick up 55 seats in the House of Representatives, Press secretary Robert Gibbs told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning that Democratic candidates have done, in his words, “a remarkably good job in a tough political environment.”