Obama defends economic vision, as battles loom

July 25, 2013 01:31

President Barack Obama today launched a ground campaign to defend his vision for the US economy, vowing to revitalise the American middle class in the face of a hostile Congress.

Obama made a robust defence of his stalled economic initiatives, which have been bottled up in the Republican-led House of Representatives -- the branch of Congress responsible for managing the nation's checkbook.

The president planned to visit three US cities over two days, for a series of addresses on accelerating economic growth and creating jobs.

The speeches, which come six months into his second term, started today at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, which he first visited as a newly-elected senator eight years ago.

Obama told the crowd in his adopted home state that generations of middle class prosperity had begun to stall, in recent years, leaving the economy hamstrung.

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