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Excellent speech - and a classic example of the use of the Bully Pulpit. First of all, let me say that it is a definite breath of fresh air from the last 8 years to have an intelligent President who can speak in complete sentences. More importantly, Obama stuck the right tone of seriousness and hope in a positive vision of tomorrow. We are not a nation of quitters -great line! Obama is clearly using the political capital he has to get programs through Congress that need to get done. For too long things like health care reform have languished in Congress with both parties blaming the other for lack of progress. The time for that bullshit is over. Health care, renewable energy, and education - the three most important priorities that must and will be addressed.

He definitely hit a home run, and the polling show that. CNN showed that 82% of those who watched the speech were more optimistic about Obama's proposals. He clearly has a great deal of support from the American Public.

And as far as Jindal goes, if he is the hope of the Republican Party, I am going to declare Obama the vicor in 2012. Did he not get that Heck of a Job Brownie was in charge when Katrina hit? For Jindal to use that as an example of the failure of the Federal Government is strange, considering he is criticizing his own party. And for any Republican to lecture us about fiscal responsibility would be like Blago talking about honest - there is no credibility there. From his creepy delivery, to his recitation of recycled talking points, Jindal is clearly not ready for prime time. Even members of his own party gave him a bad review. Doesn't matter though because Palin will be the nominee.

I realize that I am biased, but I have heard a great many political speeches in my day. This speech that Obama gave was one of the best I have ever heard. And I am proud to say that I helped to elect him.

I was vomiting over your verbal fellating of him.

Excellent speech - and a classic example of the use of the Bully Pulpit. First of all, let me say that it is a definite breath of fresh air from the last 8 years to have an intelligent President who can speak in complete sentences. More importantly, Obama stuck the right tone of seriousness and hope in a positive vision of tomorrow. We are not a nation of quitters -great line! Obama is clearly using the political capital he has to get programs through Congress that need to get done. For too long things like health care reform have languished in Congress with both parties blaming the other for lack of progress. The time for that bullshit is over. Health care, renewable energy, and education - the three most important priorities that must and will be addressed.

He definitely hit a home run, and the polling show that. CNN showed that 82% of those who watched the speech were more optimistic about Obama's proposals. He clearly has a great deal of support from the American Public.

And as far as Jindal goes, if he is the hope of the Republican Party, I am going to declare Obama the vicor in 2012. Did he not get that Heck of a Job Brownie was in charge when Katrina hit? For Jindal to use that as an example of the failure of the Federal Government is strange, considering he is criticizing his own party. And for any Republican to lecture us about fiscal responsibility would be like Blago talking about honest - there is no credibility there. From his creepy delivery, to his recitation of recycled talking points, Jindal is clearly not ready for prime time. Even members of his own party gave him a bad review. Doesn't matter though because Palin will be the nominee.

I realize that I am biased, but I have heard a great many political speeches in my day. This speech that Obama gave was one of the best I have ever heard. And I am proud to say that I helped to elect him.

1. I can understand you liking Obama's speech and his initiatives.
2. There's one major priority that has so far been entirely absent in all of Obama's policy initiatives: White collar criminals must be brought to justice--they have existed at every level of our economy and government for far too long. Adult drug use (non-violent drug offenders) and adult contracts for sex should be legal and lying, stealing and cheating should get people thrown in jail. Maybe we can't go that far--but I can tell you that the economy won't recover until private capital holders feel safe enough putting their money at risk--they won't be cheated again.
3. I love how ridiculously biased you are (yes I recognize you admitted it, but in a different context). You rail against the things Republicans fucked up over the last 8 years, and when they stand up and say, hey, this was fucked up...then you say they have no credibility to be able to say it was a bad deal because it was their deal. WHAT THE FUCK EVER HAPPENED TO LEARNING FROM YOUR GODDDDDDDAAAAAMMMMMNNEED MISTAKES, SLIDER?

For fuck's sake, man.

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I think it is a productive message to assuage people's fears and reinvigorate their innate animal spirits to fight back against the trends we've seen over the last year or so. I agree that we should be technological leaders--but I don't believe government can make it happen on a broad scale. The resources and innovation just can't be created with the wave of a wand and some tax dollars. I believe that the best thing government can do for such advancement is to get the hell out of the way and make sure everyone is honest about what they're doing, to allow for maximum private investment.

My issue is that his message is utterly incomplete. He's missing the boat on real and true transparency and instead choosing to pay lip service to the concept, IMO. He needs to force his wall street benefactors to be honest with us--then maybe I will trust him.

I like my Governor

I agree that is was a speech to reinvigorate the spirit of this country - and it was something we needed. However, I think we need an Apollo project style project that coordinates government, business and academic institutions in coordinating our efforts towards energy independence. First of all, the government is the only entity in this country that has the scope to make such an effort possible. Plus there is not incentive for this to be handled just solely by private industry, whereas there is an incentive for the government to run this program. By having our energy sources controlled by other countries, not only is this an economic issue but it is also a national security issue. From 1958-1969, we went from nothing to putting a man on the moon. If we did that then, we can do it now on the issue of energy independence.