Obama's Speech

I just hope he can do half the crap he says he is going to try to do. He seems to have some really good ideas, but how effective is he really going to be? Of course, Bush was a lame-duck for the entire last five years on his administration, so I guess if Obama makes even a little effort at all to change things for the better, he will have done more than Bush did in his entire second term... At any rate, because I agree that we need most of the things he talked about in his speech last night, I have made up my mind that I am not going to bash Obama anymore. We need education and health-care reform. We need cleaner energy. We need more jobs. We need BETTER jobs. We need to hold all those big corporations accountable for the way they spend the government aid they receive. We need to hold our politicians accountable for they way they spend our tax-dollars. Make no mistake about it...if Obama does something I disagree with, I will make it known that I do not like it, but I don't guess that speaking negatively about him all the time is going to help any of the problems that we need to address. I still can't kick the feeling that he has some underlying agenda that has not been revealed yet, but I am not going to dwell on it anymore. I am surely not switching over to the democratic party either. As a matter of fact, I am not claiming any party affiliation. I never really have, although my voter registration card shows me as a republican. I don't guess that really matters though. I have always believed in voting for a person, not for a party. One reason I hate partisan politics is because people get so caught up with supporting a political party that they begin to overlook what a total jacka$$ their party's candidate really is...

What I heard was nothing more than another campaign speech. Nothing too new and exiting. I heard a host of contradictions, "SPEND!"...."REDUCE THE DEFICIT!" Anyone else find their head doing a double take durring this?

I had more important thing to do than to waste my time listening to the most boring hour of TV. We have a guy who has already a giant ego given the chance to bloat his ego even more. With all the channels that I have at my disposal there are just better thing to watch.

Lilwonders, Something people should know and come to expect by now from the Obama administration is as little detail as possible. This leaves almost everything open for "change" and after all, he did tout himself as the candidate of change, didn't he?

As well as the man speaks, I can't stand to listen. This came sooner for me than most. While I will admit that he's a fantastic public speaker, there's also a side of me that wants to throw up. This stems from the first debate I saw him in against Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. When Obama was posed a question (about social security reform, I believe) he broke out into a speech and never answered the question. At this point, the Obama love was FAR from widespread. Most people liked Clinton as their front runner. But it was evident to me that this guy was a speech on a stick. I was more than prepared to be wrong, and as a conservative, I paid more attention to my party turning their back on McCain. But every time I watched Obama from that point, it was the same deal: Somebody asks him a question, and he gives a speech and inspires "hope" in people instead of simply answering the question. As Obama and Clinton had a knock-down drag-out race, I started educating myself on Obama. Most of the country was now starting to get behind him, but, seriously, no one "really" knew who he was. The news channels never bothered to know (and they still aren't trying... go figure). I read up on Obama and found out he's, among many other things, the author of his proclaimed awe-inspiring novel, The Audacity of Hope. Then it all made sense. Now it all makes sense. He's a motivational guru with a recordable voice. He can change my opinion about him if he throws the veto on this latest bill and removes the 9,000 earmarks. If not, then I have to hold my opinion that he's a speech-giving puppet for the progressive democrats in office. He's still my President and I hold the highest respect for him. I refuse to do what liberls did to Bush and unfairly criticize Obama... but when it comes to what he "says," I'm personally more interested in what he doesn't say. And he doesn't say a lot! "Speech" is his biggest tool and he never puts it in the shed for long.

My thoughts are it was great for democrats who already drank the kool-aid. watching Nancy pelosi jump out of her chair like a cheerleader was annoying. The good thing is Obama wants every one to go to college, quitting high school is no longer an option, reduce the deficit, and my favorite he wants to cure cancer. It is crazy that folks are suckered in to the whole hope and change thing and then get sold a big bundle of socialism.

Hello Lilwonders, I was otherwise engaged, so I opted to print out the text version of the speech, so that I could go over it with a fine-toothed comb. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89968 What initially strikes me as intriguing is that Bill Clinton just chided Obama with a public 'slap down' a couple of days ago for talking down the economy. So, is Obama's change in tone a reaction to Bill's slap on the wrist? Perhaps that's not fair -- certainly Bill Clinton isn't the only person chastizing Obama for his handling of his first month in office. Perhaps Obama is putting on a different mask now because of his decline in popularity in public opinion polls? To see such a negative shift in a first term president's first month in office is unprecedented in contemporary history. Though, perhaps what's really troubling there is that we might be seeing the first indications that we're going to suffer another "shift with the blowing winds of public opinion' administration. And, we all know how well that worked out for us last time, huh? After reading the speech I do have some specific questions though. I wonder if anyone in the White House Press Corps will have the "audacity" to inquire? 1. Since Obama has now 'seen the light' (after adding another 1.2 trillion dollars to our national debt) and intends to 'get tough' on wasteful spending, will he veto this new $410 billion Democrat spend-a-holic binge? 2. Will he red-line the pork, line by line as he promised during the run up to the election? Though, the prospect of adding another $410,000,000,000.00 in Democrat pork spending in addition to the 787,000,000,000,00, in addition to the 700,000,000,000.00 of spending over the course of the past few months alone pales in comparison to the nauseous sensation I experienced when I read the following: "So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89968 In case anyone has forgotten this is the first step in the Obama enormous SCAM "cap & trade", bait & switch gobbledygook nonsense that Obama introduced to the deaf, dumb, and blind media in April 2007. Of course, the missing arctic ice shelf that was used as the justification for the whole global warming nonsense was just inadvertently determined to have never been missing at all! Just as was originally countered, the equipment that Al Gore and the IPCC relied on for their initial research was erroneous! Yet, these knuckleheads in DC are forging forward, in spite of every evidence that this global warming nonsense has been fabricated by a select few, to that end that those select few, and the investors that they round up, get rich off of the consumers back over a huge, fraudulent scam. [i][b]"CFACT - Shifting Arctic ice shifts global warming debate According to the soon-to-be-published research, much of the ice claimed to be missing in the Arctic may in fact not be missing at all, His suspicions were confirmed when he lined up the submarine visits and found they perfectly match the timing of the wind cycles. In short, he concluded, there is no ice melting,.... and indeed sonar data throughout the 1990's suggests there may even be an increase of Arctic ice. Interesting news, indeed."[/b][/i] www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarti... www.cfact.org/site/view_article.asp?idCategory=4&idarticle=263 http://www.ask.com/bar?q=missing+arctic+ice+found&page=1&qsrc=2106&zoom=Definition+for+Global+Warming%7CSolutions+to+Global+Warming%7C%3CKW%3EArctic+Ice%3C%2FKW%3E+Cap&ab=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cfact.org%2Fsite%2Fview_article.asp%3FidCategory%3D4%26idarticle%3D263 Next I expect Obama to begin once again peddling his United Nations Poverty Eradication proposal that obliges U.S. citizens to cough up another 854,000,000,000.00 to hand over, no strings attached, with no means of oversight to foreign governments. Worse yet, doing so would also subjegate the USA to subservience to UN Millenium Development Goal mandates. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!! http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml http://www.ask.com/bar?q=obamas+global+warming+initiative&page=1&qsrc=2417&zoom=Ways+to+Prevent+%3CKW%3EGlobal+Warming%3C%2FKW%3E%7CDefinition+for+%3CKW%3EGlobal+Warming%3C%2FKW%3E%7CCause+of+%3CKW%3EGlobal+Warming%3C%2FKW%3E&ab=6&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffindarticles.com%2Fp%2Farticles%2Fmi_m0EIN%2Fis_%2Fai_n27209924 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2140625/posts

That's essentially what he said in a nutshell -- he made it sound really good, but it's a little disconcerting. I would've loved more detail too.

I think there might be a privacy.Obama is a president.He has many responsibility for the people.But still i have not heard this news.Thanks for knowing me.

I would think so myself, but hey, I watched the speech last night on tv, and one of the things that he brought out is that for us to beat this thing, that everyone take up an additional skill and such. I had nothing against that, but if you have loans already, do you go and get another loan for that? I believe in having skills, I have some right now, but what can you do? the whole country is suffering here and I worry if this is a prolonged issue. which I know it is. I am watching Oprah and seeing folks who worked hard and just lost everything.

I didn't watch but what was that big smudge on Biden's head I saw just a moment ago as I was watching Lou Dobbs?

I didn't watch it but I read the transcript online today. Stuff like that is better digested without the way he delivers things. It's a bit more hopeful than the doom and gloom he has been spreading lately. But it was still pretty much same old same old and spend, spend, spend. And some stuff that is impossible to accomplish. Anyhow, being that I'm originally from Germany I'm offended that he claimed Americans invented the automobile. That is not true. Benz, who happened to be a German in Germany, did.