Gov. Tim Pawlenty welcomes President Obama back to Minnesota

The Associated Press reports Governor Tim Pawlenty welcomes President Obama back to Minnesota with a snarky Minnesotan vocabulary lesson.

Using local expressions like "uffdah," "eh" and "yikes," the likely Republican presidential contender hits Obama for broken promise to keep unemployment under eight percent, the federal take over of health care, and more and more spending:

• "You said unemployment would stay below 8 percent and now it's almost ten -- uffdah!"
• "Do you like the federal take over of health care? They might say eh, not so much."
• "The ederal deficit was over a trillion dollars the last two years, and will be next year, too -- Yikes!"

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You can read the transcript of Pawlenty's welcoming message at Right Side Politics.