Last night Obama made a speech which was essentially a series of condemnations wrapped up in a campaign speech. I'm going to give some commentary based on these two youtube.com postings, but they were a little big to try and post here. I really don't want to make you guys work that hard, but dissecting this piece by piece is the only way, I think, to really address this. Click on the headings to see the speech and then read along to the time signatures…
00:23- Let me open with an observation, without a teleprompter, this guy is terribly uninspiring.
01:32- What happened to hope? I thought Obama was all about making people feel good. Why is he trying to scare us? For a better series of thoughts on that... check this out.
03:02- How quickly he's changed his tune from two weeks ago...
"By Major Garrett/FOXNews.com/Friday, January 23, 2009
The "I won" comment came after Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Republicans believed cutting income taxed would do more to stimulate economic growth than providing a $500 per person payroll tax refund for individuals earning less than $200,000. The president said, according to those present, that this was an important philosophical divide between Republican and Democrats and that it had already been settled -- and would remain settled -- because he won the election."
04:47- He found this deficit? Wasn’t he the guy, when campaigning, railing on the “failed policies of the Bush Administration”? How did he not know that the country had a deficit? And his answer to the “found” deficit is to increase it almost a hundred fold? (Check out he graph above.)
07:36- His answer to earmarks is…more earmarks? It’s the old, “If all your friends were jumping off a bridge…” thing. Seriously? The leader of the free world’s response to the enormous amount of earmarks in this bill is to say, “Everyone else is doing it.” So much for change…
01:28- Let’s assume that that 3M number is correct. According to conservative estimates the stimulus package will run about $825B. That breaks down to $275,000 a job! Man, I’d like to get in on that.
02:29- Is anyone else tired of this old saw? “Firefighters, police, teachers…” Instead of threatening us that we’ll lose “essential services”, can’t you just be honest and say “You’ll lose essential services, because we won’t cut unnecessary spending (see earmarks above) or try and reduce programs that suck the country dry (read: welfare etc).
02:45- Great! Let’s reduce our dependance on foreign oil by using unproven and unworkable technologies, all while completely ignoring the decades worth of our own oil sitting under our feet and just off our shores. Awesome!!
06:18- It was right around here that he stopped whining and started stumping. I kind of lost interest after that.
What kills me the most about this little speech, is that fact that Obama is going to get what he wants anyway. He has control over both houses and the pen that are needed to get this bill passed. I think his real problem is that he doesn’t want this hung around his and the Democrat’s necks alone. This bill is a failure and he knows it, otherwise he’d just tell Pelosi and Reid to ram it through and not worry about making it bipartisan. If it was that good for the country and that pressing of an issue, this would be the perfect way to ensure Democratic dominance in Washington for years to come.
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