President Obama's Birthday Wish List
President Obama turns 51 Saturday, but the birthday gifts are already pouring in. Employment numbers released today showed larger-than-expected gains in the workforce, with 163,000 new jobs added in June. Economists were predicting that number to come in at around 95,000.
But it wasn't all iPhones and Bulls tickets for the president. He copped an ugly, oversized holiday sweater, too, in the form of an unemployment rate that ticked up one-tenth of a point, to 8.3 percent, prompting the Romney campaign to call the news a "hammer blow to struggling middle-class families."
So a mixed bag for the incumbent, who will for the fourth -- and possibly final -- time Saturday celebrate his birthday from the commander-in-chief's seat. If there's going to be a fifth such occasion, the president will need a few more goodies to fall in his lap in the next few months. With that in mind, we're taking a look ahead at what might be going through his head Saturday as he blows out the candles on the First Cake.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obamas-birthday-list/story?id=16923344
