And now, its the next day and the thrill is gone. The speech is over leaving only the echo of his voice in your mind. Hollow. The politics of seduction, having worked its magic and done its job, fading away in the cold fog of the morning after.
Don't ask, don't tell...remains a vague promise....no deadline...sometime this year he will work for it..
Jobs...calling on business to help...like before...tax cuts to make it so....republican solution..another failed attempt at bipartisan politics
Bitch slapped the Supremes....I did like that.....How can these fools not understand that the Sup co ruling just opened us up to some foreign government like China or even rich man Bin Laden, spending bucks to gift wrap a legal Manchurian candidate for the American people...
His announced intention to go forward with health care reform is good...his blast at the scaredy cat democrats who are backing down was on time. My fear is that what will come is even less than what is currently on the table, and what is currently on the table, sucks...no other way to describe it.
President Obama did go school yard on the GOP, putting them on blast for refusing to take part in governance of the country. Did they hear him? Probably not, judging from their response delivered by the latest Mitt Romney clone, who's upside is that he is not Mitt Romney.
This slight of hand spending freeze...put off for a year...but still nothing less than a covert shout out to conservatives..another attempt to placate them.
Liked his tone. Obama took the middle ground between Fresh Prince Carlton and John Shaft. He didn't back down, instead striking just enough of the right note for the conservative talking heads to resurrect the old “he's arrogant” insult again.
If white people call him arrogant, it means he's doing something right like challenging their sense of control. “the boy just won't stay in his place!”
That's a good thing.
So to conclude, I like the speech. It was the right one for the time. Obama is still the best option given the choices of what else is available. It remains to be seen, however, if he was successful at taking back control of his own narrative from the conservative spin doctors.
And I just wish he'd have slapped the GOP obstructionists as hard as he came down on the Supremes.
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Yeah, the speech was fly. But he is known for fly speeches. I am just anxious to see the follow-up. He spent the entire campaign season giving fly speeches, but when it came time to govern, he faded into the woodwork.
So, with this speech he delivered a few head slaps. Let's see him step down from the lectern and deliver perhaps a few more so that we know he really means business.
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