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Post by Elvado on Jan 24, 2010 9:24:33 GMT -5
President Obama comes out swinging on Wednesday night, claiming the Brown victory in MA is more of a call for change and declares that he is the real change agent. He ignores the fact that a majority of Americans disfavor his health care reform agenda and claims the democrat party is doing the people's business. In lofty rhetoric, he again claims victory on the jobs front despite all empirical evidence to the contrary. Chances are he again blames all woes on problems he "inherited".
Within 10 minutes of the speech's end, mainstream network style media proclaim the speech a triumph and assert that he has regained his footing and the upper hand.
Did I miss anything?
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Post by kchoya on Jan 24, 2010 11:06:51 GMT -5
Chris Matthews' tingling feeling.
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Post by EasyEd on Jan 24, 2010 11:34:45 GMT -5
President Obama comes out swinging on Wednesday night, claiming the Brown victory in MA is more of a call for change and declares that he is the real change agent. He ignores the fact that a majority of Americans disfavor his health care reform agenda and claims the democrat party is doing the people's business. In lofty rhetoric, he again claims victory on the jobs front despite all empirical evidence to the contrary. Chances are he again blames all woes on problems he "inherited". Within 10 minutes of the speech's end, mainstream network style media proclaim the speech a triumph and assert that he has regained his footing and the upper hand. Did I miss anything? You forgot he will also blame Wall Street and the insurance companies.
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Post by quickplay on Jan 24, 2010 13:17:52 GMT -5
I know right, we need this country back in Republican hands. I miss the good old days!
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Post by EasyEd on Jan 24, 2010 13:28:13 GMT -5
Yeh, 6% unemployment was a drag.
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Post by quickplay on Jan 24, 2010 13:52:02 GMT -5
Exactly. An economy growing steadily for 8 years on sound fundamentals and then the instant Obama takes office, BOOM, he turns us into a banana republic.
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Post by Cambridge on Jan 24, 2010 14:42:09 GMT -5
I hope midway through his predictably optimistic yet cautious speech to the nation, "Born in the USA" starts blaring, he tears off his suit revealing a McCain/Palin 2008 campaign t-shirt, hits Pelosi over the head with a metal folding chair, puts Reid in a pile-driver and turns the country over to God's Party (TM)...sigh, now THAT would be a speech...I can dream can't I?
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jan 24, 2010 14:47:10 GMT -5
Yeh, 6% unemployment was a drag. It is a shame that Obama did not inherit that like Bush 43 inherited a 4.7% unemployment rate. Interesting talking point where one is largely responsible for a mess (worst economic mess since the Great Depression) then complains when someone else does not clean it up fast enough. For my part, I'd like to pass along a commercial prayer card that I received in the mail from the American Life League in advance of the SOTU. Perhaps it was authored by Mullah Coburn. Anyway, its urgent prayer reads in pertinent part as follows - "O, St. Paul the Apostle...Let the power of St. Paul's intercession bring about the conversion of President Barack Obama..." One has to wonder how in the heck I ended up on that mailing list. LOL.
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Post by hoyawatcher on Jan 24, 2010 16:10:45 GMT -5
I think we have already seen most of the SOTU speech over the last week. Beyond Haiti and Afghanistan with the ability to congratulate the military, He will then pivot and talk about how the anger that brought Mr. Brown to the Senate is what brought him into the White House. He feels your pain. He will then pivot to the populist slant he has been taking and slam bankers and other big wigs. He didn't come to Washington to support them. He will finish with some recognition of balancing the budget but argue that Health Care is a key part of that which has to be finished. He will then finish saying he wants to work with the pubs and they should help with the commission he wants to set up to address the deficit (and give cover for raising taxes on everyone).
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Post by Elvado on Jan 24, 2010 18:00:58 GMT -5
The most disturbing part is that I actually expect a wonderful speech. The speeches are always replete with wonderfully soaring rhetoric and grandiose expressions of hope and desire.
It's that darn doing something after he promises that seems to bite this fella on the rump.
For all of his brilliance, rhetorical and otherwise, he has yet to figure out that we do not govern by speech or applause lines offered to a sycophantic audience.
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Post by kchoya on Jan 25, 2010 10:50:55 GMT -5
Yeh, 6% unemployment was a drag. Interesting talking point where one is largely responsible for a mess (worst economic mess since the Great Depression) then complains when someone else does not clean it up fast enough. Wait, I thought "Wall Street" and "greedy CEOs" and "big banks" were responsible for all our economic ills. I'm confused as to where we're supposed to place the blame.
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Post by hoyaalf on Jan 25, 2010 12:34:39 GMT -5
Dick Cheyney will do for a start.
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Post by TC on Jan 25, 2010 14:18:17 GMT -5
My Wednesday prediction : absolutely no one will tune in at 10 PM and say to themselves "DAMN! State of the Union is on! I wanted to watch Leno."
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Post by Elvado on Jan 25, 2010 14:18:27 GMT -5
When in doubt, when you can't govern or implement programs that work, when your popularity is sinking like a stone, take to the airwaves with a campaign ad.
Earth to Mr. Obama: You are already President. Govern for God's sake. You don't get to run again until 2012.
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Post by strummer8526 on Jan 25, 2010 16:35:48 GMT -5
Earth to Mr. Obama: You are already President. Govern for God's sake. You don't get to run again until 2012. When he governs (i.e. by setting the national agenda, meeting with world leaders, setting military policy, etc.), you bitch about every single thing he does anyway. So, yes, the White House has a PR machine to try to explain to the public what our government is doing and why they should support it. Frankly, I'd be happy if they didn't even bother because I don't think it's worth anyone's time to even try appealing to blind partisans like you. Your kind is not worth the effort.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 25, 2010 17:24:37 GMT -5
His problem, young man, is not "blind partisans" like myself. His problem is that the vast majority of "independents" upon whose back he rode to the White House, have begun to figure out they were sold a bill of goods.
Have you ever wondered why the Left is always attempting to describe Mr. Obama as being Kennedyesque, Lincolnesqe, Trumanesque, etc? Is it because there is no there there?
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Post by Cambridge on Jan 25, 2010 18:24:24 GMT -5
His problem is that the vast majority of "independents" upon whose back he rode to the White House, have begun to figure out they were sold a bill of goods. There have been a lot of bill of goods sold by both sides before and since Obama's election.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 25, 2010 18:34:22 GMT -5
His problem is that the vast majority of "independents" upon whose back he rode to the White House, have begun to figure out they were sold a bill of goods. There have been a lot of bill of goods sold by both sides before and since Obama's election. Fair enough. He has just proven to be biggest bill and the emptiest suit.
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Post by Cambridge on Jan 26, 2010 18:22:35 GMT -5
There have been a lot of bill of goods sold by both sides before and since Obama's election. Fair enough. He has just proven to be biggest bill and the emptiest suit. My, my, how quickly you forget Mr. Clinton.
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Post by EasyEd on Jan 27, 2010 11:05:03 GMT -5
We need a poll to guess the number of times he uses the pronoun I.
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