So what did you think of the Presidential Speech last night!

I think it was more proof that Prs. Obama is a bumbling fool without a teleprompter and a $5 million dollar stage backdrop.

i think he is trying real hard to clean up bush's mess. it was his first news conference. i think everybody needs to back off & give him a break & let him try to do what needs doing. he hasn't been presibent a month yet, give him a break.

To me it just sounded like a campaign speech. And I got irritated with him trying to pass the buck.

I never listen as he is so adjectively wordy, I end up saying."what'd he say?" I just wait till it comes out in the news and then decifer it. Thing is...these stimulus plans - they aren't putting money in the hands of those that spend it to increase the economy and not soon enough. For instance... buy a new car stimulus...you can deduct on your 1040 the state sales tax and the interest.... okay, well, with unemployment so high...who can afford a new car and take on a new monthy payment for 5 years? Even those that still have jobs...they know things are shakey so will they go take on a new payment, not knowing if they will continue to be employed? no of course not. So how is that going to help? THen if they do buy, they still have to come up RIGHT NOW with down, the sales tax and pay the interest all year until they get a 1009 for it and can deduct it NEXT YEAR - but still, unless they are already getting a refund, which is often not the case, it only takes away a bit from the amount you owe.. so how is this going to put any money back into the economy? Same thing withthe new home buying - up to $15,000 tax deduction on a home purchase... First, that was instated by Bush last year in July-- Obama just extended it. But still... a buyer has to come up with the downpayment NOW, which is 3.5% of the purchase price... and then has to wait till next year to deduct it from 1040s which again, if you get anything back, it won't be until next year and possibly not enough to do anything with. Plus...you have to pay that back to the govt in $500 increments over the next 15 years!!! They will just take or add $500 to your refund/owed amount. THe only part of this law that is really good is that if you stay in the house for 3 years, you don't have to pay it back The tax cut - $500 for single, $1000 for married.. all that does is adjust what is taken out of your check each payday to the amount of $80 a month extra on you net earnings... $80 a month is not going to save the economy. So the money isn't going into the economy so it isn't going to do anything. They have to stop giving all the money to the big companies to waste and give it to those that support the country.

It may have been just what you say. I think he couldn't put out his words either. I was embarrassed for him. It was as if he had had too much coffee or something. I hope that doesn't continue or I am going to get alittle paranoid.

I thought it was funny in a sad way. He was selling this plan without telling the people that because the gov. does not have the money in the spending bill it is going to print billions of dollars we do not have. Which will cause more inflation and further deprication of the dollar. So not only are we going to have to pay off this national debt....but our money is not going to go as far because everything is going to cost more. But is he telling them that? No. He is only telling them that "this is only way and it will help". It is not telling you what the bad side effects of this bill will do. Everyone complains about inflation but does not realize it goes up everytime the gov. prints money we can't back up. Things are going to cost more in the store and we won't be making anymore money than we were before. SO this is a vicious downward spiral. This plan will not fix the ecomony. It will only delay the bottoming out process and when it does finally happen it will be worse because of this bill.

I thought it was just a lot more of his campaign rhetoric. He didn't answer the questions that were asked - instead making excuses and blaming others.