The Note, 2/25/09: Getting It — Hope returns to Obama rhetoric — but what will follow?

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Socialized medicine and larger, more intrusive government will not help rebuild America, any more than FDR’s bold New Deal did in the 1930′s. In fact, economists now admit that government meddling and billions in ‘make work’ jobs served only to prolong and deepen that crisis. Much of the bloated welfare programs we now can no longer fund date from the New Deal era. How can more of the same possibly help any of us?

I thought his speech was fabulous; he showed strength, resolve and character. And I like the fact that he’s attempting to cut through bureucratic drag and make it happen now, not 20 years from now. He has my vote again. and I did vote for Bush. Shame on me.

I am not at all sure that Obama “gets it.”
And I, for one, do not buy it. He sounds more like a Hitler as each day passes — he can’t let a day pass without a propaganda speech.

How can more of the same possibly help any of us? >>>>>> What I like to know is the Press and commentators that stupid? How is it they sit there in total amazement when its obvious that we are getting recycled plans that did no good in the 30′s 70′s and 80′s. The people hooked on the government welfare were destroyed. It destroyed their work ethic, their belief in themselves. It created a totally dependent subculture that too decades to correct.
And if he talked about HOPE when he first started talking about the economy then I would say OK its a mixed message of reality and calm. To come from CRISIS… to Hope.. It sounds disingenuous now.

obama keeps taling about education, then why is florida talking about a 4 day school week and cutting teachers, or their salaries,

Make no mistake about it, Obama’s speech last night represents the start of a quiet social revolution. His plan as outlined last night sets the US on a path to social transformation never seen before in the US history.
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So far the only change we have is a Trillion dollars in spending of money we dont have on programs that wont kick in until the recession is over. CBO estimates 2010 without spending a dime.
The only hope he has given me is CRISIS for the past 60 days. Is there anyone that believes this man NOW? His Actions are opposite of his words. So for all folks who got you big tax break of $13 a week (WOW arent you impressed) get ready he will take double away with taxes on everything else.

I wish he would make a stipulation that this stimulus helps only the registered Democrats first, since the Republicans don’t want any part of it. Let them starve so trhere will be more Democrats for the elections in 2012.

Illegal aliens can apply for mortgage relief under the Obama administration’s $275 billion plan, according to immigration experts and a group the government will use to help homeowners modify loans.
Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., told WND approximately 1 million households headed by illegal immigrants acquired mortgages through the beginning of 2007, before the housing bubble burst.
“There is no legal prohibition against illegal immigrants owning homes,” he said, “and in most cases mortgage lenders will accept a taxpayer ID or a Matricula Consular card issued by a Mexican Consulate office as identification to illegal immigrants from Mexico.”
Chad Buchanan, a manager at SaveMyHomeUSA – a group cooperating with the Obama administration that assists homeowners facing foreclosure – told WND illegal immigrants who own a home “could certainly apply under our program.”
“We don’t target or go after illegal immigrant customers,” he said. “But if an illegal immigrant owns a home legally, we could try to help them under our program.
SaveMyHomeUSA is seeking job applications for loan modification processors to work in the Obama administration mortgage modification program.
“A lot of mortgage modifiers out there never ask about the legal immigration status of the homeowner, and we do not ask either,” Buchanan said. “This is the first time I’ve had that question asked. All we are looking to do is to modify the current note, regardless what the legal immigration status of the client is.”

Pub the Republican War Criminals in Prison NOW!

so all you youngsters, simple-minded middle-aged whites and ALL blacks—–now that you have “made history” by voting for a far far left liberal community organizer, WAS IT WORTH IT?

so all you youngsters, simple-minded middle-aged whites and ALL blacks—–now that you have “made history” by voting for a far far left liberal community organizer, WAS IT WORTH IT?
Posted by: jacked | Feb 25, 2009 9:08:44 AM>>>>>>It was worth more than electing the guy who completely ruined our great nation>>>BUSHIE!

Where was your “conservative” outrage when Bush was ripping off your tax dollars and giving it to his war profiteering buds who electrocuted our troops in their shoddy showers in Iraq?

Where was your “conservative” outrage when Bush was ripping off your tax dollars and giving it to his war profiteering buds who electrocuted our troops in their shoddy showers in Iraq?
Posted by: 33Greeper | Feb 25, 2009 9:11:47 AM
WHAAAT?????

So what do you Haters purpose we Do?Do things the Same? continue the Same road We have Been Traveling for 8 Years?If you keep doing things the same and nothing gets better, Then its time to try New things. Like the President said we can take this crisis and turn it into
Oppurtunity and Rebuild this Country Better. We are America we will Bounce Back! but its going to take time and Patience!

Jon I would take those days in a second compared to what we have now.

PENNY S
Great Post spoken like a true American!

ANGIE IN PA YOU WERE LOOKING AT YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT
In your Dreams Billy Bob in your Dreams ha ha hahahahahahahahah

Angie in PA Your niavity in falling for the CHANGE line of BS is going to make this recession last a lot longer than it should. The Republicans have offered a lot of different solutions but were told to sit down a keep quiet. Good luck with your CHANGE.

“Let them starve so there will be more democrats in the elections in 2012″ Ha! Dems believe in gay marrige and abortion! Pretty soon you will be the extinct party! Also, you do know there is another 450 billion dollar spending bill making its way through congress right now don’t you? If this keeps going there won’t be anyone left to vote. I also agree with the poster who asks why in this time of “crisis” is Obama planning on sending 90 million dollars to rebuild gaza when some americans can’t even afford to feed their children? Oh, I know. Do you?

hope is not a strategy. And what is ABC talking about buy into.—WERE BROKE. Bail out these banks that charge you $50.00 being 1 minute late on a payment but now want the same people they extort money from to help them. CRAZY!! Just a simple thought, if a person was spending more than they earn and go’s to the bank and says–I’m in financial straights and lending me money will get me out of this, what do you think the answer would be. A loud NO!! And the “messiah” thinks spending is how you fix it. YOu fix it by not spending like ordinary americans due. Stupid is as stupid does

Billy Bob
What have the Republicans offered oh wait dont tell me I Know More of the Same, More Tax cuts Right? Tax Cuts,And More Tax Cuts. The Republican Party needs to Think Anew Get up with the Times into the 21st Century, We tried their way look around It didnt Work!

No way, No How! I’m not buying what he’s selling. What’s he selling? Our kids futures, our retirement savings, our liberties and country.

Angie in PA You do not know what working is but you are about to find out. Business is the only thing that always gets us out of a recession, not the goverment. Keep standing there starring into the headlights but do not be suprised if you get run over.

Barb If this is straightened out I would hate to see this country when things are bad.

It was hard to watch this whole speech. I couldn’t keep my eyes off the two idiots sitting behind “The Savior” – This man will never be my President. I believe in America but I cannot put any faith in this man… Author Rick – what does Mr. Obama “get”? He sure doesn’t “get” how I feel about this whole mess…

Well, unfortunately the nation had to “buy” it regardless of whether it wanted to or not.
All of barry’s talk about transparency turned out to be nothing more then a lie with the passing of the “stimulus’ bill. The American people were given 6 hours to look it over before washington voted, and with the positive poll #’s for the bill slipping drastically everyday, barry simply stepped up his “doomsday” rhetoric in order to achieve his socialist goals.

Another 450 billion dollar spending bill! wonder if he’ll “go through it line by line” like he did the last one? Yes We Can! give the government all our money! What a joke the democrate party is with all their defending of this inexperienced man. He is going to bring this country to our knees. This guy is all talk but please don’t dig too deep or you’ll make him angry and we don’t want that do we? By the way, did anyone hear Joe Biden couldn’t remember the web site for the recovery program he is in charge of? What a bafoon!

Angie…the liberal CONgress has an even lower approval rating. The lowest in history.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama knows Americans are unhappy that the government could rescue people who bought mansions beyond their means.
But his assurance Tuesday night that only the deserving will get help rang hollow.
Even officials in his administration, many supporters of the plan in Congress and the Federal Reserve chairman expect some of that money will go to people who used lousy judgment.
The president skipped over several complex economic circumstances in his speech to Congress — and may have started an international debate among trivia lovers and auto buffs over what country invented the car.
A look at some of his assertions:
OBAMA: “We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages. It’s a plan that won’t help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to afford, but it will help millions of Americans who are struggling with declining home values.”
THE FACTS: If the administration has come up with a way to ensure money only goes to those who got in honest trouble, it hasn’t said so.
Defending the program Tuesday at a Senate hearing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it’s important to save those who made bad calls, for the greater good. He likened it to calling the fire department to put out a blaze caused by someone smoking in bed.
“I think the smart way to deal with a situation like that is to put out the fire, save him from his own consequences of his own action but then, going forward, enact penalties and set tougher rules about smoking in bed.”
Similarly, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. suggested this month it’s not likely aid will be denied to all homeowners who overstated their income or assets to get a mortgage they couldn’t afford.
“I think it’s just simply impractical to try to do a forensic analysis of each and every one of these delinquent loans,” Sheila Bair told National Public Radio.
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OBAMA: “And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
THE FACTS: Depends what your definition of automobiles, is. According to the Library of Congress, the inventor of the first true automobile was probably Germany’s Karl Benz, who created the first auto powered by an internal combustion gasoline engine, in 1885 or 1886. In the U.S., Charles Duryea tested what library researchers called the first successful gas-powered car in 1893. Nobody disputes that Henry Ford created the first assembly line that made cars affordable.
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OBAMA: “We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.”
THE FACTS: Oil imports peaked in 2005 at just over 5 billion barrels, and have been declining slightly since. The figure in 2007 was 4.9 billion barrels, or about 58 percent of total consumption. The nation is on pace this year to import 4.7 billion barrels, and government projections are for imports to hold steady or decrease a bit over the next two decades.
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OBAMA: “We have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade.”
THE FACTS: Although 10-year projections are common in government, they don’t mean much. And at times, they are a way for a president to pass on the most painful steps to his successor, by putting off big tax increases or spending cuts until someone else is in the White House.
Obama only has a real say on spending during the four years of his term. He may not be president after that and he certainly won’t be 10 years from now.
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OBAMA: “Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn’t afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day.”
THE FACTS: This may be so, but it isn’t only Republicans who pushed for deregulation of the financial industries. The Clinton administration championed an easing of banking regulations, including legislation that ended the barrier between regular banks and Wall Street banks. That led to a deregulation that kept regular banks under tight federal regulation but extended lax regulation of Wall Street banks. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, later an economic adviser to candidate Obama, was in the forefront in pushing for this deregulation.
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OBAMA: “In this budget, we will end education programs that don’t work and end direct payments to large agribusinesses that don’t need them. We’ll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we’re not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don’t use. We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn’t make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.”
THE FACTS: First, his budget does not accomplish any of that. It only proposes those steps. That’s all a president can do, because control over spending rests with Congress. Obama’s proposals here are a wish list and some items, including corporate tax increases and cuts in agricultural aid, will be a tough sale in Congress.
Second, waste, fraud and abuse are routinely targeted by presidents who later find that the savings realized seldom amount to significant sums. Programs that a president might consider wasteful have staunch defenders in Congress who have fought off similar efforts in the past.
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OBAMA: “Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double this nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years.”
THE FACTS: While the president’s stimulus package includes billions in aid for renewable energy and conservation, his goal is unlikely to be achieved through the recovery plan alone.
In 2007, the U.S. produced 8.4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, including hydroelectric dams, solar panels and windmills. Under the status quo, the Energy Department says, it will take more than two decades to boost that figure to 12.5 percent.
If Obama is to achieve his much more ambitious goal, Congress would need to mandate it. That is the thrust of an energy bill that is expected to be introduced in coming weeks.
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OBAMA: “Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs.”
THE FACTS: This is a recurrent Obama formulation. But job creation projections are uncertain even in stable times, and some of the economists relied on by Obama in making his forecast acknowledge a great deal of uncertainty in their numbers.
The president’s own economists, in a report prepared last month, stated, “It should be understood that all of the estimates presented in this memo are subject to significant margins of error.”
Beyond that, it’s unlikely the nation will ever know how many jobs are saved as a result of the stimulus. While it’s clear when jobs are abolished, there’s no economic gauge that tracks job preservation. The estimates are based on economic assumptions of how many jobs would be lost without the stimulus.

Mr. Obama – I am sick and tired of hearing you tell us WE have to take responsibility. I HAVE!!!! To say you inherited the problem – yes to a point, but it is the government in which you were a part of as a Senator that has caused this mess. Not just Mr. Bush. It is the Democrats and Republicans that run this country that did this. The Democrats had power since 2007. Not the American people who foolishly voted for each and everyone of the people that sit in the house cheering as if they did nothing to create these problems. I pay my bills, I pay for college because we make too much for a student loan and our child can’t get one,(Already $20,000 in debt) I had a Roth that is pretty much gone at this point thanks to the government ran Ponzi scheme. I will have to work forever. Unlike our government workers that have the glorious life to not pay taxes, take elaborate vacations, health insurance for life. This US government which you were part of and still are ruined this great country. Not the American people that you are asking to fix it. Washington broke it – not us. It is time for government to take responsibility.

“Mr. Obama – I am sick and tired of hearing you tell us WE have to take responsibility. I HAVE!!!!”
Good for you. Plenty of people still haven’t.

I listened to him speak about his plans to educate our children, that’s great! BUT, what about the adults that need education? I struggle to take care of my children and pay my student loans. How can this help those of us trying so hard now? So many of us are in default. Student loans are the only thing that cannot be on a bankruptcy. I am putting tickets on a bankruptcy, but student loans have to be paid. That is so stupid. When you have to choose between feeding your children, and student loans, you know we have reached a sad state. We need more changes. How can the president not see that this is a problem? The president and his wife just paid off their student loans. What about all of us that have been laid off. How can we pay? Or those of us who are paying for an education we don’t utilize and now need more education? We say that education is power. Well, we need help to get it. Education is a business. That’s where we need immediate reform. How will these new jobs matter if no one is trained to do them? This needs to be rethought.

I love the way Billy Bob trashes the President. This is why our country is in the mess it’s in today…people like you.
It’s not his fault that a lot of people overspent, that Bush let his rich friends on Wall Street have their way. He DID inherit a mess…..
No matter what I or Angie say you and people like you are like broken records. You have no clue and no solution. Like the Republicans who went against Pres. Obama but are licking their chops at the money they will get!!!!! They ruined our country and now are bashing him. And Jindel or whatever his name is is a jerk!

>>>>>>It was worth more than electing the guy who completely ruined our great nation>>>BUSHIE! ?:>>>> You still breathing? Well thanks President BUSH.

Republican leaders see economic recovery as being able to go back to doing things the way we were doing them back when the DOW was at 14,000. President Obama sees it as getting back up on our feet and then heading off in a more sustainable direction. I really don’t think we can keep doing business the way we’ve been doing it the last 10 years. I know it made quite a few people very rich, but a lot of it turned out to be smoke and mirrors and that weakened the nation. However, I doubt that many Americans have the patience it will take to redirect our economy towards more sustainable growth. Americans don’t like to wait–they don’t like to wait for recovery, and they don’t like to wait for their payoffs either.

Billy Bob
Please do not tell me What working is. I work 2 Jobs! And yes Business is what drives the Economy, But look around The Private Sector is Falling Collapsing. What are we suppose to do Nothing? Now I am no fan Of big Goverment. But this is No ordinary Recession.Businesses are closing Left and Right The Banks Have To Start Loaning again so Business can stay in Business
Posted by: Angie in PA | Feb 25, 2009 9:31:41 AM
I was referring to what is working for the economy. The rest of the post we are in agreement on except you think Obama is making the right moves to help the economy and I as a business owner think he is making all of the wrong moves. In facy i strongly believe he is making matters much worse than if he did nothing at all.

They ruined our country and now are bashing him. And Jindel or whatever his name is is a jerk! >>>>> This is something you bought into. Its NOT true but its what you believe. I can tell.
No changing your mind but its truely not the case. Much went right and much went wrong in the last 8 years.
Why is Jindel a jerk for believing what he believes? OH Yeah cause his name isnt Obama? Obama has lied since he came to office but you want to be lied too so you must have loved Clinton as well. Good liars have fans.

Billy Bob
What are your Suggestions What do you purpose He do? NOTHING! It may not be all Right in what hes doing, It may not all work No One has a Crystal ball But give him credit he is Trying

And Bush SPENDING BILLIONS AND BILLONS OF MONEY In Two Wars has nothing to do with the Deficit please wake up!
>>>>> And OBAMA spending a 800 BILLION was a mature thing to do? Dont be fooled.
Obama also BACKED TARP. Thats another 800 BILLION. Democrats never saw spending they didnt want to do. Its irresponsible. ONLY childdren expect whine UNTIL THE get a YES. Adults have to be grown up enough to say NO.
Obama is just keeping the CHILDREN happy by giving them candy. The only problem is he is STEALING the money to do it. You want me to justfiy BUSH? You justify the tax increases that will come to pay for this crazy spending.

I don’t feel very united today. This guy is in way over his head. He can deliver a good speech but so far everything he has done has made my 401k drop even more than under the idiot Bush.

Too bad the president didn’t speak of the need for swift justice for the WAR CRIMINALS of the Bush Administration.

BELIEVE THIS——OBAMA AND HIS PINHEAD IVY LEAGUE people have no clue and do not “GET IT” as Obama claims. The idiots do not understand that people are out of work and all their feeding the friends of the democrats is not and will not put people back to work anything soon. AMERICA is hopeless with PINHEADS in charge!!!!! GOD help us and these loons will not.

Anyone actually believe there wont be taxes on everything from gas, food,
clothes etc. And we will ALL pay to try and pay for the insane multi trillion dollar debt we are buying. WHO made these bad loans that forces us to bail out banks? OH YEAH CLINTON a DEMOCRAT
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c0de7db153ef933a0575ac0a96f958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Angie why did you say Jindal is not a jerk? In a previous post you said he gave an awful speech and spoke like he was speaking to five year olds??
that’s why I said he’s a jerk..

“Obama said the words “crisis” over 20+ times to get the stimulus package thru. That is “preaching fear”"
No, that’s speaking truth. We are in a crisis, and he and his advisors believe that things have the potential to get significantly worse if aggressive action isn’t implemented. Now that he has gotten it passed, he can start trying to get people feeling positive again. Try to use his oratory skills to inject as much confidence into peopel and the market as possible. What’s the issue?

Hey Rich….you bet voting for Obama was worth it! All you old timers (backward thinkers) who put Bush in office won’t be paying the real price of that terrible choice, we will. I’m 50, do you think that I’m ever going to see the retirement that your generation have enjoyed from the Clinton years, hell no! We’re all going to be working till our 70′s instead of touring the country in RV’s. We have Bush and his backers to thank for this. Gee Rich, do you have any children and grandchildren? Let me thank you for them for screwing the coming generations out of our retirements.

“Angie why did you say Jindal is not a jerk? In a previous post you said he gave an awful speech and spoke like he was speaking to five year olds??
that’s why I said he’s a jerk..”
Many of Republican voters who aren’t the elite wealthy have the intellect of 5 year olds. He was talking to them. He also has to sell himself to the good ol’ boy faction of the Republican party who were sitting in front of the tv saying, “I’m not voting for that #####!”

Billy Bob
They did not Eliminate The Tax credit For first time Home Buyers,And if you read the Bill you will see there are alot of Tax credits For Small Business as far as The 250,000 That is not GROSS BUT NET You have to NET THAT!I Dont Know of any SMALL Business Owners who NET 250,000 A year

Obama did what he said he was going to do for an entire year before he got elected, and that was help to solve our national crisis, I dont recall him ever promising that he was going to beg and plead on one knee for a bunch of aging, senial, republicans to see it his way, he took charge and got it done, and that is why he sleeps in the white house and not John Mccain. We have a leader now not a donkey.

Barb
Just because Jindal is Boring and Doesnt Know how to Give a Speech Does not Make him a Jerk but you Know what Does make him a Jerk refusing Unemployment Money for the People of LA,Because he cant get out of the far right Lane therfore the People can suffer and Thats why BILLY BOB He will not be President

President Obama has shown more leadership in the last month than Bush has the last year or his last term.

what a beautiful day the birds are singing the dow started out down a 100.

AWESOME SPEECH!!!!!!!! Those who keep churning out all of this negative doom and gloom rhetoric will be left behind as those who want to move forward will transcend those hanging on to dis-unity and divisiveness. OPEN YOUR MIND and start looking for ways to help this country instead of complaining. OBAMA GET ITS!!!

Jindal is too far right, People want MODERATE!
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yes, people want a moderate. which is why Obama (well actually more pelosi, reid, franks and gang) are wrong for us right now. they are so far to the left that a conservative just cannot relate to them and will probably never agree with their policies.
I am starting to think Clinton could have done a much better job of bringing the country together.

Barb
30 Percent of the People are against President Obama,Thats not alot of People But what Kills me those 30 Percent still think Bush did a great Job, Laughable Like I said If Bush were A president and cared and Payed more Attention To this country and not Wars and Oil, And didnt SPEND ALL OF OUR MONEY TO FUND THOSE WARS AND BUY THAT OIL We would not be in this mess. and these 30 Percent of People want to Blame President Obama now thats LAUGHABLE!

Our prosperity and international standing has gone up in flames over the last eight years, and it seems like the Republicans are toasting marshmallows over it.
We are about to lose our automotive industry, we have lost billions to fraud in rebuilding Iraq, our banking sector is tettering on the brink, and Republicans are milking the situation for the sake of “rebranding” themselves as fiscal conservatives (after getting us into this mess in the first place.)
Obama isn’t perfect, and yes, I see through the showmanship, but give him points for DOING something, and at least TRYING to make us look competent to the rest of the world.
Posted by: Amy
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Of course you didn’t mention that YOUR party controlled Congress for the last two years of the Bush administration with good old boy Barney Frank and Chris Dodd controlling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which were the direct cause of the recession. As I also recall, it was Clinton who first administered home loans to those who hardly qualified for them.
And what is Obama’s answer to every problem? More government spending which is like giving a new brand of alcohol to an alcoholic in order to make him sober.
Clinton was asked one time if he could name a country that has taxed and spent its way back into prosperity. Clinton did not have an answer. I doubt if Obama will either.

In times of crisis people are far too willing to surrender their lives and problems and let someone else (in most cases government) manage them. It happened in 19th-century France, it happened in what became the Soviet Union at the start of the 20th century, and it happened to Germany in the 1930s. Had it not been for the conservative faction it could well have happened to the United States during the Depression. With government money always comes government strings, and once on that slippery slope it’s not easy (if even possible) to turn back. Before I applaud any vague proposals to sell any more control of this country to the government, regardless of how charismatic a leader may be, I’ll remember the past and to evaluate just what I’m giving up for promises of security.

Angie, yes some of these people really are laughable but you know part of the reason we are in this mess? them! They voted for Bush twice. I don’t understand the mentality. I guess if Donald Duck were a Republican they would vote for him. I am a Democrat BUT I always look at all the candidates and vote accordingly….Most of the time I do vote Democrat but if the Republican is a better candidate I go with them. We can’t have these people with blinders on. And when I see posts that say they didn’t listen to his speech, it’s all blah, blah, blah, like Michelle posted, how do you know it’s all blah, blah, blah? That’s just sheer ignorance.
Wait and see in a year we will be on the road to recovery. And people also don’t understand is what took 8 years to create is not going to be fixed overnight.

Silky: that’s right, Obama doesn’t control the Dow…I really wonder what is in the minds of some of these people

Barb
I agree President Obama has only Been President for 30 Something days and he is Being Judged Little Immature dont you think? But then again they did vote for Bush twice see where Im going with this!

Silky: Also yes he is asking for advice and has smart people to ask..he is also asking people to email him with suggestions.
Can you imagine Bush doing this? Not!
Pres. Obama is a good man and he is involving people in fixing our economy.
How some people can be so negative I don’t know. You are so right.

Why doesn’t the president put an end to the speculation and just tell the Hawaiian Public Records to release an actual copy of his original birth certificate? Why is he spending so much money trying to block the release?

billy bob is a poser. He is really Sean the Manatee

Angie in PA I know of several plumbers that net over $250,000 per year, although we refer to them as mechanical contractors (commercial work). You have no idea of what you are talking about. Just exactly how did fox edit obama telling Joe the plumber he was going to re-distribute the wealth??? I cannot wait for that anwser.

BO ‘s policies directly effect the direction of the DOW. If he is going to nationalize the banks, bank stock plummet. If he is going to bail out GM it directly effects gm stocks. this is fact like it or not.

Billy Bob
Yes I have a car and I use Gasoline, But I do have a problem With going to War for OIL, And Bush getting Kickbacks from the Saudis for Buying oil stocks yes Billy Bob I have a Big Problem Bush got Kickbacks and Made Profits off the war and Oil!

Stop measuring Obama’s effectiveness as a leader by the Dow
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Silky – Just who do you think is going to be funding the messiah’s grand old spending spree???? The DOW is a great indicator as to confidence in the business world.
But you keep telling yourself that its not true !!!!

Is it me, or has the President made more television appearances than any modern day President. Why not just have the President have a weekly tv appearance. I “get it”, when it is good he’ll be on tv. When it is bad he will be on tv and try to spin the situation.

“Angie in PA – Can you please tell me exactly what we were supposed to do after 9/11 – invite the terrorists over for tea?”
No, go into Afghanistan. Which we did, to the universal applause of all Americans. Iraq is an entirely different thing. And the fact that there are those who still don’t get that is mind-boggling to me.

Laurie: Pres. Clinton most certainly did do something about the first attack on the WTC. Those crazies are behind bars for life….The caught them and they had a trial, it was all over the papers, and they are in jail.
And do just go after Iraq when they had nothing to do with 9/11 was senseless.

What is heaven’s name do you obama haters wants him to do? Nothing? He is trying to do something to stimulate the economy..yet you criticize him..what is the hell do you want him to do..All you Republicans can do is criticize, criticize..Bush left us in a pool of dog mess and you obama critics think that is okay! Let me give you a fact..No Republican president has ever left our country with a surplus..three Democrat presidents have including Bill Clinton..doesn’t that tell you something about the Republican economic policies? I believe if Obama is given a fair chances to lead and implement his policies..he would balance the the budget too and leave us with a surplus at the end of his tenure. I am sick of you Republicans who criticize what Obama is trying to do to turn things around yet you do not have plausable advice on how to turn things around..you criticize but give no solution of your own..you know why? because you don’t have any..I think America has and is “wising” up to the Republican crap and their voodoo economics foolishness about trickle down economics. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans..I am not even a Democrat but I have read enough and have enough sense to know that the Democratic party is the better of the two evils..God bless president Barack Obama and God bless America!

BARB
They really dont know how Dumb they sound with the Birth Cert thing They sound like Immature children
BILLY BOB
Fox News Picked apart that tape put it together Their way to Make Obama sound like a socialist!And no Billy Bob SMALL BUSINESS NOT CORPORATE DO NOT NET 250,000 A YEAR you do Know what NET MEANS

LAURIE
Dear Iraq had NOTHING I repeat NOTHING TO DO WITH 911

Barb
Poor things they still are Intoxicated on the Bush Kool-aid so to speak Blaming Iraq for 911 HAHAHAH Too funny

marco
Get your facts straight. This recession was not caused by Freddie and Fannie loaning money to unqualified buyers. That is simply not true. F and F did get into trouble when they followed the industry trend of buying derivatives (paying too much for bad loans bundled with good.) Blaming poor people has become the rightwing’s latest favorite smear job. It fits people’s prejudice, so they think its true.
Do you remember all those commercials urging home owners to refinance their homes, to get money to go on vacations, add on an extra bathroom, pay down credit cards? Do you remember when you couldn’t buy a two bedroom ranch house for less than 200,000? Do you remember when your neighbors were ruining neighbors by building McMansions? Do you think THAT might have had something to do with the housing bubble that triggered the recession when it popped?

I can tell you the stock market was not happy with his speach last night. It is tanking again. It does everyone talks. Stop talking and do something. This stimulous package is doing nothing!

Do you remember when your neighbors were ruining the neighborhood by building McMansions?

Every time President O opens his mouth, the market starts to tank! What do you think of that you bunch of liberal Kool Aid drinkers. I tell you what, wipe that kool aid mustache off your faces and get to work…

Obama spoke again last night, and the market dove this morning. Am I the only noticing this trend? He does not get it. We ALL want to fix healthcare, education and power but not by spending TRILLIONS WE DON’T HAVE. People spending behind their means and institutions (government and banks) enabling them created this mess. We are where we are because people spent money they did not have. That is exactly what this clown proposes. He brags about pay as you go, but then shoves a trillion in debt down our throats. And I am getting really tired about him pointing the finger at Bush. Was he not part of congress for the last few years? Didn’t congress approve Bush’s budgets (republicans AND democrats). He talks about personal responsibility and accountability, but will not acknowledge that he was part of the group (congress/government) that got us where we are. I lose more and more respect for this clown every day that goes by.

Liberal! Kool-Aid! Nobama! Messiah! Birth Certificate! POOOORK!!!!!

USANC
What do you purpose he do? Any Suggestions?

Angie,
Dear, when you finally address the fact that there are groups and leaders of countries that want you dead and are secretly attempting to build nukes that they can pass off to groups like al Quada you address them as well, not just the people who actually carried out 9/11. Al Quada is not located in 1 country and your own Senators and Congressmen stated that there was a link between Sadaam and al Quada before they voted for the Iraq war. I suppose you would have voted to wait until after he gave the nuke to someone and they managed to attack us again before you went after them. You people are so naive – KUMBAYA!

Silky
Those are Rush Limbaugh words the Parrots are out!

I will forever remember this speech as the “Throw Money” speech of 2009!

I want to thank Obama for removing a good portion of my 401K. Every time he opens his mouth, I lose money. He needs to just shut-up and stop giving speeches. Since he was elected in November, I have lost 40% of my retirement because nobody believes in his “pile on the debt” approach.

Laurie
Bush is no longer President! Thank god Please stop pushing his Lies down our throats Dont Insult Peoples Intelligence!

Great speech – I heard him promise the cure for baldness, small breasts, diabetes, parkinsons, Althzimers, blindness, erectile dysfunction, heartburn, high blood pressure, bad cholestrol, bad breath, big noses, and cancer. WOW. I’m impressed.

Brian
Thats not true 67% Percent of the American people do, Sorry the President isnt catering to the Wealthy Ceos!And wants to Fatten their Bank Accounts with our Tax Dollars

Terry,
He has released his birth certificate, news organizations have validated it, there are records at the hospital he was born at. Please, please quit believing all the rumors you hear, and you can actually go online and see a copy if you take a moment. This is a non story and an example of rumor-mongering designed to smear Obama during the campaign that just won’t die.

What should be done to turn the economy around?..You Republican bloggers! Can you give another way other than the way the president Obama has outlined! I know none of you would because there is not other way..The man is trying to do something and for once we have a president who cares about all of America not just the rich..Do you guys really believe that Bush cared about those soldiers in Iraq? He got us into a baseless war in Iraq and spent billions of dollars of our(tax payers money) to fund that poor excuse for a war in Iraq and if any of you think there is no connect between the billions of dollars spent on the war and the current economic situation then I know some of you must be on “crack” or some drug..that money could have been invested to make America’s economy stronger. If people would only read and forget about partisanship they would find out that under Republican presidents we are always left with a big deficit..even Reagan who postured as a fiscal conservative spent trillions and left us with a big deficit..George W..the same and all the other Republican presidents..knock, knock! does anyone have the commonsense to see that the Republican party poses as fiscal conservatives but borrow and spend more than the democrats..When the Republicans spend they spend on wars..when the democrat spend they do on social programs..you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out which one makes more sense. Me thinks Americans are ignoring Rush(the comedian)Limbaugh and the likes and are seeing the Republican party for what it truly is a Party for the rich and those who pretend to be..but the current situation is hard on the pretenders and a few of them sucked up their foolish pride and voted for Obama after acknowledging that the Republican party is crap and got us into this mess. God bless president Barack Obama and God bless America and save us from the Republicans!

Apparently I saw and heard something completely different than most of you. Obama is not reassuring or inspiring. He is the most negative president I have ever seen. All he does is spend money we don’t have and make empty promises

‘BHO gets it’. . . my hind quarters!
This neophyte is in way over his head. He hasn’t a clue what economics is all about.
His solution to EVERYTHING is; make a speech. Talk, Talk, Talk ad infinitum.
If it doesn’t have to do with Marxism he doesn’t understand it.
All that could be gleaned from this latest ‘great speech’ was that the media is still fawning over this moron and any lie he tells will eventually be declared the truth.
‘It’s Bushes fault’ I thought BHO was soooo smart he could fix it, guess this is just one more lie he can’t deliver on.
How long can he keep making excuses for not having any solutions? Rhetorical I know – as long as the MSM is unwilling to take responsibility for electing this incompetent president.
You gotta admit though he is much better than Bush in one respect. It took Bush 8 years to get the deficit to where it was when he left office. It only took BHO 60 days to double it! And his failed speeches have driven the stock market to the lowest levels in 20 years.
Good job BHO . . . looks like it’s time for another speech.
Analyst, Ph.D.

Terry,
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
He released it to factcheck.org, they scanned it, they took pictures of it, you can see it for yourself. Please stop.

Terry,
Follow the link and you can see: The certificate was released to factcheck, they scanned it, they took pictures of it, you can see it. Please stop.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Angie in PA–easy solution, the gov’t should adopt a spend as you go Budget. Isn’t that what responsible Americans do? And we want our Gov’t to be responsible. To all of you who didn’t know this. The Clinton era of zero deficit was created by Bush 41 trying to get the country of a recession. He initiated the pay as you go budget. BUsh 41 didn’t get credit for the economic turn around because he was a 1 term president. So kudos to Clinton for not reversing the Bush 41 decision

BILLY BOB
Fox News Picked apart that tape put it together Their way to Make Obama sound like a socialist!And no Billy Bob SMALL BUSINESS NOT CORPORATE DO NOT NET 250,000 A YEAR you do Know what NET MEANS
Posted by: Angie in PA | Feb 25, 2009 10:32:06 AM
Well I guess ABC, NBC, CBS, ect used Fox’s picked apart version of Obama telling Joe he was going to re-distribute the wealth. I hape i know what net means, because I am a small business owner. You really are clueless.

dow down 185. That is reassuring

Eight years and a $10 trillion national deficit is the LEGACY of the Bush Republican administration. Do you know how much money that is? Neither do I, and I can’t imagine how long it will take to repay it. What we DO know is that we can’t trust the GOP when they say all they care about is keeping America out of debt. It would be funny if it weren’t so serious.
Love the way Republicans published their “response” to the President’s speech BEFORE he made it. Even better that the beloved GOP is still saying the same thing they’ve been saying since at least the Carter administration over thirty years ago. This saves us the time we’d otherwise waste by watching or listening to them, since we already know their argument well after having heard it ad nauseum during the two year campaign when we rejected it. Still offering no solutions, the GOP just says “no” to Mr. Obama.
Mr. Bush and his band of merry Republicans left us with a $10 trillion deficit. They are out of power, so NOW they claim to be concerned about the government piling up debt that our children can’t repay. Too late, because they’ve already done that.
Bush and the GOP gave the average wealthy person a $700,000 annual tax cut since 2001. Those who didn’t get that cut have to pay for those who did. A massive redistribution of wealth. Bush didn’t “get” Bin Laden, so he lost the Afghanistan war. There are two new enemies in Iraq that weren’t there when Bush invaded, so he lost that war. Al Queda and Iran wouldn’t have dared enter Iraq when Saddam was in power, so killing him actually made us LESS safe.
Bush “spread democracy to the middle east” but then the Palestinians elected Hamas as their government, so Israel’s worse off than before. Similarly, the Iraqis elected the Shiites who are the puppets of Iran, so that’s much worse than Saddam. Likewise, Bush sought to weaken Syria’s influence in Lebanon, but that resulted in a proxy war against Israel that then Lebanese actually won.
The tired old notions the Republicans keep screaming at us have been tried, but they have failed us miserably and it’s time to tune them out entirely.

Silky,
3000 Americans needlessly died because of Bill Clinton. Our soldiers believed in their cause – your representatives were traitors throughout this war calling them murderers and saying the war was lost while they were in battle.
So by your reasoning if you saw your neighbor loading TNT, plutonium, etc into his house you would just wait and see and would not call him out on it. We tried to deal with Sadaam through
the useless UN and he laughed in our faces. Exactly at what point would you have dealt with Iraq?
I am truly sorry for your losses and I surely hope that we never have to endure another 9/11 again.
Barb – The first World Trade center bombing was an Act of War and Clinton handled it as a “crime”. Really eliminated the threat putting them in jail huh?

Angie in PA: Your ignorance is amazing. Bush is the one who inherited a recession from Clinton, the one who expanded the CRA. Since you are an Obama voter, I will explain that the CRA is the ‘Community Reinvestment Act’ which pressed banks to give loans to poor blacks. It was Clinton’s way of buying votes. Any banks who did not increase loans to the poor would be sued. Citigroup for example was sued because of this. It was a case titled Bucks-Renyolds vs Citigrop. And who was the trail attorney for the group claiming discimination? You guessed it… Barack Obama. LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER.

“sliky:
If he can do this much damage in only 5 weeks. What’s in store for 4 years?”
He hasn’t done any damage. The accounting on his actions isn’t going to come for quite a while. But nice try.

“The smart money knows the difference between a used car salesman and a president.”
lol. You guys are funny.

If this were truly the day of reckoning, then this “bail out” would stipulate that these funds would truly not go to help the irresponsible. Although he said that, all his people admit that there’s no way to assure that and they likened it to you still put out the fire for the guy smoking in bed. What crap…the day of reckoning at this spending pace will come when my grandchildren are my age. Without concrete assurances that what he was saying will indeed be fact, we might as well have been listening to Mickey Mouse. At least with Bush there was still a shadow of a doubt about the WMD’s that he was accused of lying about…with Obama we now no he will straight up lie to us. Here’s a fact check on his “inspiring speech”:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29377101/

Every time he speaks, the DOW drops. The Chosen One needs to shut up.

“Silky,
3000 Americans needlessly died because of Bill Clinton.”
How so?
“Our soldiers believed in their cause”
MANY of them most certainly did not. But they stayed and followed orders anyway, which is what we need them to do. So, God bless them.

Why do people use the market drop as a argument against Obama. I love the fact these CEOs, Banks, and Wall Street are going to have to account for their spending. Unfortunatly the aboved mentioned doesnt like it.

The best thing Obama could do for the country is shut up. Every time he opens his mouth the economy gets worse and the markets go down. He’ll have this entire country in the garbage can within a year.

Liberal! Kool-Aid! Messiah! Nobama! Birth Certificate! POOORRRRKKK!!!!

“We will rebuild..” reminds me of Deep Impact. in fact, IMO Morgan Freeman might even did a better job.
So we will recover because, we will be receiving an extra $13 a week! He is really a con salesman.
Then Obama said that we will be able to save 2 Trillion in ten years, Wow! Can please somebody tell him him that he will be just one term President.

Finally we have a president that stands up to Celebrities, and sport stars. Its about time that Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Beyonce, and Tiger Woods be cut down to size.
Tiger makes 40 million per year. Beyonce makes 80 million per year.
Will Smith about 50 million per year.
I’m a CEO making 1.2 million per year.
Darn it.

Terry, Where do you think Obama was born? Huh! You Republicans would not drop this birth certificate crap story..you know its a lie yet you perpetuate it. Obama is a born American..Hawaii is an American territory when I last checked..Why don’t you Republicans spend your time thinking about what to do if you win the general elections in 2024?

“3000 Americans needlessly died because of Bill Clinton.”
Only a hardcore rightwing Republican would try to spin our national tragedy into a partisan talking point.
Osama bin Laden is responsible for those 3,000 deaths.

“Why do people use the market drop as a argument against Obama. I love the fact these CEOs, Banks, and Wall Street are going to have to account for their spending. Unfortunatly the aboved mentioned doesnt like it.”
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Stop whining about a few crooked CEOs . . . jail them and get on with it. If we don’t turn lose the free market economy this poor sick country will collapse under its own weight. Obama and his inept socialist policies are driving the entire nation into oblivion.

Stock tip, when Obama is going to speak, SELL SELL SELL.

Bobby Jindal, the next president of the United States? Hold on while I puke!

long t : because the market doesn’tlike socialism.

I am middle class I have always paid my bills. When time got hard I work two jobs. I have never file chapter 13 never had my wages garnished. I took care of my life with no help from the government. I was against the bail out of the banks but the got are money and just keep on partying. I am against the home owner bail they should have bought something they knew they couldn’t afford. I have lost 30% of my 401k. I want the government to stop giving away my tax money. The middle class did the right thing and now we have to pay! THIS IS CRAZY!!!

“Just wondering why the president doesn’t issue a copy of the original birth certificate. It would be so easy to do. It would certainly put an end to a lot of speculation…”
There is no speculation. There is a small room full of people with cute little tin foil hats who keep each other entertained with such talk. But that’s the extent of it.

I heard a lot of raw raw raw but not really how this is gonna work. I am middle income with a child in college, no FAFSA for us…now we are having problems finding a student loan…how is all of this rhetoric gonna work…somebody please spell it out for us. The middle income families are gonna drown before help comes. An extra $13 on my check is gonna do what? Put a little gas in the tank, it sure won’t pay for my childs college. This is all a bunch of B. S.

“An extra $13 on my check is gonna do what?”
It adds up and it puts it back into the economy. A lump sum tends to be saved or used to pay down debt. This way, you are more likely to spend it.

ok I’m off this blog….It’s sickening to hear people asking about a birth certificate when our country is in deep debt and trouble. I can see why judging by some of the remarks on this blog.
God help President Obama and all of us because with people like this we’re gonna need all the help we can get. I can see why my overseas friends make fun of us.

When I heard the word “crisis” within the first few lines I had to change the station. I couldn’t watch another downer speech. Everytime this guy talks I have to work 5 more years into my retirement! I hope my kids can get student loans because their college fund is non-existant!

Tired of hearing all this birth certificate stuff. If his mother, born in Kansas, was an American citizen, he’s an American citizen, regardless of where in the world he was born. But wait, was he born in the world or…maybe he’s an alien….from another planet…only part human….

Obama’s ideas had better not be sold. Socialist policies will result in failure. How much bailout money are Hollywood, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, etc getting? Even the 80% tax consumers in Baltimore slums can tell you that SOCIALISM IS FAILED. The strings of government dependence are deadly and Obama will KILL incentive to work hard and KILL this country if he is successful in selling his policies. You media folks are a huge part of the problem and you sure know how to manipulate some of the public.

2009 45% of the pop is dependent on government. 2012 65% of the pop is dependent on goverment and so on. Is this what he meant by change?

silky : read the article at the new york times in 1999 about fannie and freddie and you will change your mind on who created this mess.

The market doesn’t think much of Obama’s speech. They are down again. Obama knows how to give a speech. Nothing else. The guy is a “catastrophe” for America.

“socialism, socialism, socialism!”
- pretty laughable coming from a bunch of folks that don’t even have passports and have never even seen or experienced “sociaism” – would love to hear your “experience” in socialism that makes you all experts…trust me you are WAY off….
even after GWB, expanded government and government spending and nationalized AIG, we dont even approach socialism.

1992 through 2004. >>> I wonder if this is based on something that cant be pointed to as bias? Measure how many favorable articles were out in 2004 on the republicans and how many favorable articles were out on the Democrats. I think it tells a different story.

Silky, smart money is real money. You don’t have money if your stupid

Just posting the resultys of the study. I’m sure your request would be the same. Why don’t you reseach it?

i heard half the speech and read the rest while on the treadmill. the man can talk and sounded good,then when i had converted to text without all of obamas passion i saw a dfferent speach then that which i heard. i am not knocking the man for dreams. thats cool. but i dream i win the lottery everyday.
my concern is how do you do all of that and only tax the upper 2
percent of society and cut the deficit in half in 4 years. the math doesnt work or the devil is in the details. i will be honest if i could get all the things obabma prommissed last night without paying any more tax….i wouldnt work nearly as much and keep my income low enough to avoid paying anymore tax. my healthcare costs my family 17.000 a year and i have 2 kids left to put through school. if i can get this all for the govt…i will not work or as much as i do and i will vote for obama….sounds way to good to be true….which always means it isnt.

Bill Clinton left office with a 2 trillion dollar surplus.
George Bush left office with a 4.2 trillion dollar deficit, national engagement in two simultaneous wars, and millions of workers added to the unemployment roles.
In response to Obama’s address last night Jendel called up memories of Katrina, $4/gallon gas prices as images of Bush and “Brownie” and floating human of so many human corpse floating in the Mississippi River came across my mind along with the fact that each time I had to shell out over $4 for each gallon of gas I had a Texas oil man sitting in the Oval Office and deregulation not only of banks, Wall Street investment practices, but also other important sectors that effect our families and our health.
We need to move on and to do that we need to create our own day, each day, working together.

MEDIA = Manipulative Egomaniacs Determined to Implement Anarchy. They have pompously decided who would be the next president and got him elected. By bashing on Bush and Republicans for years and growing their audience of stay-at-home government dependents. Same folks have been running Baltimore for over 30 years (there are exactly ZERO Republicans in office) and it’s a complete urban disaster, high crime, high taxes, miserable schools (and yet the highest per student funding!!). The only successful businesses in this socialist city are illegal drugs and illegal guns. But that’s what you get when the government “takes care” of everyone. 20% tax payers, 80% tax consumers in an urban disaster zone. NOW Obama wants to take the entire U.S. that direction. And people swoon over him like Adolph Hitler. Check out your old videos of Hitler or more recent ones of Chavez. Free handouts sure sound nice but the strings of government dependence are DEADLY.

bluejersey ; I have a funny feeling running up and down my leg.

“I was wondering why the president doesn’t release a copy of the original document, the one created in 1961.”
Because he is already the President. And he’s a little busy.

Silky-please give an example of someone who is stupid that has money?

I hope venting on a blog is as cathartic for conservative Republicans as they make it out to be. Despite the flooding of blogs the country by a large majority approve of Obama’s approach to resolving the crisis. During the election cycle blogs drove news coverage. Republicans are only getting that now though. Kinda funny. I am pleased that my formerly red county is doing everything possible to keep the people that turned my Texas county blue actively involved. 2010 is right around the corner.

I love the claim that America invented the autombobile. (It was Karl Benz – a German). Typical American, blithely taking credit for absolutely everything!

The first the BHO can do to inspire hope is to SHUT HIS TRAP. Each time he opens it the stock market falls 200 points. No one is buying his socialist fix. They have never worked.The will not work here.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I miss BUSH!

silky ———Why dont y7ou also mention that their are many smart sales people that are honest and look after their customers best interest. I assure you the these type of salesman do much better than the dishonest ones because they have return customers.

The man gives great speeches. But it is going to take more than great speeches to repair this country’s ills. If some action doesn’t back his words up soon, I think people will get really, really angry.

Republicans and Conservatives are such holier than thou sour pusses. THey look a gift horse in the mouth and say I don’t want what you’re giving me as if they speak for all Americans. They don’t want to give America a hand to help in unemployment, education or healthcare. They want Americans to struggle in dead end jobs and have to go to the ER for healthcare. Hello? That is the status quo and Americans are NOT liking it. Bobby Jindal says Americans can do anything. That may be true but we can’t do much when we’re getting screwed by Wall St and by your Republican friends. One step ahead and two steps back. Where was Bush when people started getting foreclosed on and banks were failing? Why didn’t he act? If a Republican were president now, things would continue in the harsh way of the Herbert Hoover era. Americans would end up in bread lines with no food, no education and no healthcare. Where are the small businesses Bobby? Why aren’t they hiring? Do you see the shantytowns being constructed in American cities for the homeless? Do you see poverty in the streets? You should recognize it coming from India. Open sewers, trash strewn around. People living with tuberculosis around children. Is this what Republicans want? It would be so easy to continue the rich vs poor way of the Bush days. Yeah – who cares? Give the rich another tax cut. Maybe it’ll trickle down – NOT

The Republicans I gather would rather go back to a President that considers a complete sentence “Executive Privilege.”
These same complainers are willing to judge a President that has been in office 5 weeks. They want failure and yes even at the sacrifice of the over all good of the country just so they can say I told you so. Plus they know if Obama is only 50 percent right the Republicans will loose in 2012. I recommend working on your own party and start training Palin now. Palin- Ha!

“PLENTY is not an example. Also, it is blatantly obvious that you are the outsider on this blog with your views. With this many posts, you definitely don’t speak for the majority—QUACK QUACK”
I’m absolutely fine with being an outsider in this group. The only reason you ahve numbers is that Drudge regularly links to this website. As for my plenty comment, I’m not going to name the names of the people I know, you moron. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, you simply are either a child with little experience inthe world, or blind to what’s going on around you. But I’ll repeat, there is very little correlation between money and smarts.

BO is a moron,,,i agree with your assessment. my rage is gone because those who wish not to see wont. if he could do all of this i will vote for him beacuse i will be on a beach dinking pina coladas. he is a dreamer.it doesnt take a degree in economics which i have or a math degree or an mba in finance or a C.p,a which i have to figure out that the math doesnt work….hence wall streets reaction. i want a mistress for christmas too.

“CAW–silky must not have a skill or talent to make money. 99% of all sales people have a talent to befriend people, earn trust and foster a repeat business like you said. Silky likes to drink the water you and I carry”
Seriously, you are a buffoon. Being a bulls hitter has absolutely NOTHING to do with being smart. Maybe you just have the wrong idea of what constitutes “smart.”

Obama gaffe? He lies so much and ‘invents’ so much as he goes along in his ‘eloquent’ speeches, that he doesn’t even know the difference when he states something that is factually UNTRUE.
Shame on those 909 speech writers of his.

barryisasocialist didn’t take his medication this morning.

Mt Wife, a Mater Chief with 29.3 years in will be retiring next year. Obama mentioned a pay raise which would be great help. Regardless she will receive 75 percent of her ending pay for the rest of her life. I have been married to her since she was a E-1. The military as been good to us and I recommend any young man or woman that is having a hard time with employment in these rough times to consider serving. If nothing else until times are better and even maybe make a career out of it. My 401k is about worthless these days so the pension will be a great help.

silky I thought you didn’t care if anybody but your friends and relatives were truthful adn honest

“silky I thought you didn’t care if anybody but your friends and relatives were truthful adn honest”
I didn’t say that and I don’t get your point. What I said was that I’m not a stickler about politicians being absolutely clean so long as they are effective. That if we’re talkinga bout friends and family, then yes, then I’m more concerned about morality. But politicians? I don’t care.

Once again the stock market shows it is FAR more aware of the damage socialism can do to a free market then the obamabots are.
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE! Right, Silky?

“silky———–Book smart and street smart are two different things. Some share both. I know Doctors that cant hook up a CD player or hang a curtain rod yet can do open heart surgery with their eyes closed. Being smart isnt a black or white thing. Everyone has their own smarts and their is nothing wrong with either.”
My point is that I’ve run into plenty of people with money who have neither.

Yea Obama is a socialist, a terrorist and doesnt have a legal US BC. Please take this to the 2012 campaine Republicans. Maybe even pick Palin as your canidate. Hannidy, Rush and Savage are great and you should every work they speak.Please make it easy for a Obama win in 2012.

silky-(FACT)those with a GED make less than those with a college degree. So that fact supports my position that smarts make money. There is always an exception to every rule. As for name calling(you calling me a moron) you demonstrate very little intellectual position. Name calling is the first response people have when they don’t have an answer

My point is that I’ve run into plenty of people with money who have neither.
Posted by: silky——-Isnt that truth. I have too. We agree then that smarts isnt everything. I know a couple of guys that make Jethro look like PhD. Those guys opened their own business and are quite sucessful.

He could sell bazookas to Krishnas and make them feel good about their purchase.

The best part of the speech was watching pelosi doze off. is she really part of the government? democrats, where did u find this airhead??
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Pelosi was like a performing seal, jumping up and down clapping….

Anybody wanna finish my workday for me? I’d like to go home and pound Guinness and Jameson, eat Triscuits® and brie, and watch the return of Tiger Woods. In the name of Obama, hook a brother up!

brian burkart
I guess you are right! People who make more money ARE smarter. In 2008, 52% of voters making over $200,000 a year voted for Obama.
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/ExitPolls2008#Pres_All

Tees off in less than an hour. Match play against the #64 ranked player in the world, Brendan something or other. Jason Sobel at ESPN is blogging from the driving range as Tiger’s warming up…lol…
http://proxy.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=sobel_jason&page=liveblog

Amy…that’s a poll…not a fact. Please be aware that they didn’t ask everyone making over $200,000…in fact I’d be surprised if they really talked to enough people making over $200,000 to get a true sampling. People that make that much money don’t take time to answer polls.

Curse you, Watching in Amazement!!! Tip one back for me.

Obama thought he knew who invented the automobile. That statement was part of a premise for concluding America can do anything. His premise was wrong but his conclusion may be true. Similarly the economic premise that literally dumping a trillion dollars into the economy will stimulate ‘economic growth’ is another faulty premise. It will definitely stimulate ‘monetary growth’. Obama urges you to be responsible citizens. Great! Then learn a bit more about economics. Learn how inflation is created. Learn about how wealth is created. (Google: how is inflation created) Some are saying, ‘We cannot spend our way into prosperity.’ Do you think this might be true? Obama is a passionate speaker, but can you be certain he’s taking us down the right path? Do you merely ‘hope’ so? I urge you, please educate yourselves rather than putting your faith in hope. Wisdom comes from knowledge, not hope.

Posted by: mm | Feb 25, 2009 11:05:48 AM
mm, you said; “I will explain that the CRA is the ‘Community Reinvestment Act’ which pressed banks to give loans to poor blacks. It was Clinton’s way of buying votes. Any banks who did not increase loans to the poor would be sued. Citigroup for example was sued because of this. It was a case titled Bucks-Renyolds vs Citigrop. And who was the trail attorney for the group claiming discimination? You guessed it… Barack Obama. LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER.”
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I am keenly interested in this type of “Political Slight-Of-Hand”, please provide the associated Link/s to Validate your charge. Thanks.

Lighten up and pay attention dissenters. It’s only a little socialism here, a little there, a little capitalism over there. Seriously speaking, no tongue in cheek whatsoever…what if we come out of this confusion with a savory blend of the two? That doesn’t solve the complication of Keynesian economic principles but bottom line is our children will live in a world that is the only world they know and it will seem just right to them. Change is coming and there’s no resisting. Once the changes have been instituted there will be no turning back. Might as well take a window seat and enjoy the ride.

The insurance companies are a multi trillion dollar annual profit industry in America. What are we going to do about their lobby? Sounds like from everything I’ve heard they get to keep their parasitic middleman position between consumers and providers. In fact our government will soon be feeding them with more and more insured citizens so they will become more and more profitable and powerful.

mmonroeliveson
You can sit by and “enjoy the ride” all you like. As for me and the rest of the anti-socialism crowd, we will go down swinging. I am not going to give my country, which has givenhuman beings the greatest prosperity and quality of life the world has ever known, over to the anti-American, liberal traitors without a fight.
Even as I type this, people all over the world are dying to try and enter the USA. I wonder how many are dying to enter france right now?
The republicans have lost their nerve and the democrats have lost their mind, true conservatives are the only ones who can save this country now.

I’m dying to go to France!

I’ll be going to France before long. Somebody talking smack of France speaks volumes about them. It’s very revealing.

I watched President Obama last night and yes I believe he is trying his best to repair the damage done by the GOP and the Bush administration. Where does the GOP get off trying to act like “financial experts” all of a sudden. If it weren’t for their backwards ideaology and stupidity we would not be in this mess. Now all of a sudden they know it all. This is just another of GOP distractions, they hope they can distract the nation so we don’t blame them for taking the nation to the brink of disaster. WRONG! Only a samll fraction of dummys refuse to acknowledge this mess is a result of the GOP “gaming the system” and Bush’ generous spending to enrich his friends and the corporations. The GOP policies are a nation for the rich, by the corporations and only for the wealthy.

Heh.

“long hair and a deep disdain”
Ok, now I’m really excited.

I watched snipits of the speech but couldn’t stomach all the hot air that would come from the socialist love afair. I instead watched the History Channel. Obama said America invented the first car, actually, it was in Germany by Mercedes-Benz. Then again, Obama said we have 57 states and couldn’t remember what concentration camp his uncle was in. Of course, all Obama’s major increases in social spending programs made Queen Nancy jump up with joy I see. I find it hypocritical that Obama keeps putting more responsiblity to “no one messes with Joe” yet, they kept harping on Cheney for his power as VP! These people kill me! Obama and his minions will ruin this country, we are so doomed!

Im back – Silky/Amy – been on here ALL day hey…
“I’ll be going to France before long. Somebody talking smack of France speaks volumes about them. It’s very revealing.”
Well my in-laws live in france and everything you just heard is true. they are a complete nanny state. nobody can work more then 35hrs a week – which means no overtime to buy any kind of luxury good i.e. cars, just making enough to get by.
I have also lived in England and paid A LOT in taxes every month to the so called ‘free’ health care, and then paid for private healthcare on top of it because you cant actually get treatment (some cancer patients wait months for their treatment).

Louisa
The UK and France aren’t run by dictatorships. If the populace doesn’t want universal healthcare, they can vote to CHANGE the system. Same with Australia, Sweden, Denmark and Canada. Funny, I haven’t heard of any big movemements in those countries to do so.

I love reading the comments of the far right-wing zealots that pretend to be Republicans destroy each other with shrill squeals of outrage, barely literate screeds against “Socialism” and “Fascism” (make up your mind, which is it?), attacking moderate Republicans, and revising history by pretending this crisis wasn’t entirely of their making.
I support your efforts to drum “RINOs” out of the party, anything you can do to marginalize your party and make it even more irrelevant is certainly welcome after the 8-year nightmare we’ve just been through. Keep up your efforts; as long as Palin and Jindal and Rush Dimbulb are the face of your party, your congressional power will continue to deteriorate and you won’t win the executive branch for another 20 years.

Man, you need some help. Someday I might want to live in France, but this is my home, thanks.

One thing is for sure President Obama did not ceate this mess and he has to help the economy. I would like to hear a few of your suggestions as to if you were the President where would you start? I love my country and I support My President.

It will not matter. There are no checks and balances, not debate in either the house or the senate.
Moving left has never been this easy. But lets not forget about the 46 some odd million that voted against Obama. There needs to be discussion and it is not happening with Team Obama. Which is a big failure.
And to pretend to put Rush L out there as the voice of the conservatives is an old tactic.
It use to be called deception and bad politics but now it is seen as sincere politics as we have taken people to the next level of thinking it must be done.
I can’t wait till it turns back hard right. Maybe we will then be at the center. I think we are creating an atmosphere for radicalism on both sides.
Which could be a bad or good thing. Just depends on how open a society we
really are…
Obama didn’t create it but with his Gargantua budget packages developed by the appropriators and not by Obama, he has surpasses the 8 years of debt of Bush in less than 40 days in office. More pork than ever and two wrongs do no make a right. No earmarks and now we have more than ever.
Reshape it while you can, do it early, and do it often so peeps won’t be able to derail the train till later.
We are not going to be out of Iraq ever.
His letter to Russia was misunderstood??
Blah blah blah. He has broke more promises in his few days as a president than any president on record…