"Obama did again lecture Americans.... He also warned that taxpayers will probably have to put in more money to rescue the financial system and fix the credit crisis"
Also see: Obama Retains Bush's Speechwriters
"Embracing the role of problem-solver" by Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff | February 25, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday used the grandest stage of the presidency to reveal how he wants to be seen - as a realist, not an ideologue, as a figure of consensus, not the leader of a movement, as a hard worker grappling with problems, not a visionary seeking new horizons.
So much for CHANGE, huh, Amurka?! After he SOLD YOU on that during the campaign!! What a SLICK LIAR this guy is, huh?
You, a FEEL-GOOD FUCKER after the ROUGH and RAMBUNCTIOUS RAPING of George W. Bush!!! Here is a bowl of shit for you to suck on, America!!!
In a long address with few frills and even less soaring rhetoric, the president sought to recast such ideologically charged issues as providing national health insurance, imposing tough regulations on Wall Street, and eliminating costly new weapons systems as problems to be confronted and solved, in what he hopes will be an orderly and bipartisan fashion.
That last paragraph sounds like nothing but rhetoric to me. None of that is going to happen.
"The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of healthcare; the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit," the president declared at a key juncture in his debut speech before both houses of Congress. "That is our responsibility."
ANOTHER American century, 'eh, 'bamer? Well, someone already wrote about that! Related: PNAC
Notice Obama didn't mention reigning in the empire or the massive looting by the banks. It's all CUTS to YOUR SERVICES, shit-eating Amurka!!!!!
Also see: Obama W. Bush's Budget
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Obama also knows that in a time of crisis, there is only one president, and he still holds most of the cards.
Why did a FALSE-FLAG CHILL just crawl up my back, huh?
What matters is whether voters continue to trust him. And Obama - in a rigidly honest, careful way - showed last night that he will fight to keep that trust by presenting himself as the embodiment of the national interest.
The words ominous and eerie describe those phrases and paragraphs.
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And 'bamer is just as flowery with the rhetoric as George W.
"Obama promises better days, calls for nation to pull together; Lays out steps for economy" by Susan Milligan and Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | February 25, 2009
That's spooking me, readers.
We ARE UNITED! We want OUT of IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN, and END to WARS for ISRAEL and EMPIRE, and UNIVERSAL, SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE!!
Don't you GET IT?
WASHINGTON - President Obama, tempering the series of grim economic diagnoses he has delivered in recent weeks, sounded a new note of optimism last night, vowing that "America will emerge stronger than before" from the Wall Street meltdown and mortgage crisis that has sent the country into a deep recession.
Talk is cheap.
Obama, in his first speech to a joint session of Congress:
"Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure. What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more."
I'm sorrry, Americans, but after the liying wars of aggression and the torture, I'm just not feeling the pride and love for the country. This guy sounds like Bush and it is offending me.
The remarks - while not officially a State of the Union address, since Obama has been in office only five weeks - had all the trappings of one: a national television audience, the walk to the rostrum through glad-handing lawmakers, the ordinary Americans sitting in the gallery and pointed out as living examples, and the series of standing ovations.
Obama used the occasion to explain the steps he has taken to revive the economy, and also to lay out a broader agenda, including a healthcare overhaul, improvements to education, and energy independence - campaign promises that have been subsumed by poor economic news:
Yup, ALL AGENDA-PUSHING ISSUES!!! Meanwhile we are also getting MORE WARS and MORE BAILOUTS -- a fact that goes unmentioned in my war daily!
"Now is the time to act boldly and wisely - to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity. Now is the time to jump-start job creation, restart lending, and invest in areas like energy, healthcare, and education that will grow our economy."
Who wrote this speech?
Obama also touched on the wars in Iraq.... and Afghanistan.... but the ailing economy was a dominant theme in Obama's address, with the president urging worried Americans to unite to get through a crisis he said would eventually abate....
We ALREADY ARE! What he wants is for us to unite behind a globalist agenda we despise!
Delivering the official Republican response to Obama, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal accused Democrats of "irresponsible" spending that would leave the next generation in crippling debt.
"The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians," said the charismatic and youthful Jindal, considered a possible presidential candidate in 2012. "Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have, on things we do not need?"
The Republican is right; however, I never see the Ron Paul wing represented in the MSM, and I have had it with both parties. The governor of Louisiana chiming in like this doesn't really impress me. All of them need a bath.
The Democratic president has the advantage of approval ratings above 60 percent; polls released this week also show that Americans overwhelmingly believe Obama is reaching out in a bipartisan manner to heal the economy, and that voters are less impressed with the behavior of Capitol Hill Republicans.
I no longer trust MSM polls, either. They will tell us he's over 60 percent because they can advance the agenda and keep people quiet that way. Public is already starting to turn on this guy because of the backtracking.
The GOP -- eager to redefine itself ahead of the 2010 election as the party of fiscal conservatism -- has shown little indication of letting up on its criticism of Obama’s economic approach, even as some Republican lawmakers express their personal admiration for the popular president....
At this point, I realize this article has been REWRITTEN and EDITED for the WEB!!! There is a comment by Mitch McConnell in my paper, but not the webversion.
Obama generally struck a bipartisan tone, but several of his comments -- such as his observation that he "inherited" a trillion dollar deficit, or that his stimulus plan was free of earmarks -- brought party-line cheers and grumbles from the floor.
He's no change, readers, despite the flowery bullshit of the campaign.
Obama, however, won unified and enthusiastic applause when he honored a senator who was not present last night: ailing Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whom Obama called an "American who has never stopped asking what he can do for his country."
He ain't dead yet, but they sure are acting like it!
Kennedy, who is in Florida building up his strength as he battles a brain tumor, released a statement saying he was grateful for Obama's "generous" comments, and pledged to send Obama the national service bill he has written with his friend and colleague, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
Oh, so PEACENIK TED is going to give you a DRAFT, 'eh, kiddies?
Yup, the warm-hearted liberal lion is going to send your kids to war, 'murka!
You wouldn't want to deny a dying man his death-bed wish, would you?
Unlike many State of the Union addresses, Obama's 52-minute-long speech was short on specific proposals and filled more with the rhetorical flourishes and broad pledges that helped take the freshman senator from Illinois to the White House.
Translation; he was shoveling s***!
But Obama won plaudits for speaking in more positive tones about the economy; some officials have suggested that Obama's dire comments have worsened the situation by making Americans skittish about spending money in the country's consumer-driven economy.
Yup, the great deceiver one plaudits for lying to us -- and this economy needs to change its focus, readers, because that is why we are in the mess we are in.
Obama did again lecture Americans that the economic crisis is the product of prizing short-term profit over long-term prosperity, of gutting government regulations, and of putting off difficult decisions.
Oh, he LECTURED US like BUSH WOULD HAVE, huh?
"Well, that day of reckoning has arrived, and the time to take charge of our future is here," he declared....
Once again, OMINOUS and SPOOKY!!!!
Rice: 9/11 an “enormous opportunity”
Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"He also warned that taxpayers will probably have to put in more money to rescue the financial system and fix the credit crisis....
Yeah, SAVE THAT for the BACK-END of the PIECE, Globe -- as if we were NOT MEANT to FIND IT!!!
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Some bloggers have commented that the future is looking like one taxpayer bailout after another -- and this last sentence appears to confirm their accuracy!
