Not rating the smoothness & quality of the speech, for it is always great, but, do you think

[Divine Discontent]

what the president addressed, will ultimately be done and a priority that he will make sure is being done?

[mikelgb]

1. as far as smoothness etc

I felt he was stiff and a bit nervous this time

[Divine Discontent]

3. my bro laughed and said, that's because he had to stare into the camera for more than his

typical few seconds, but that he seemed to be holding back yet again, despite sounding more forceful about what he was saying.

I agree with you, he did not enjoy this and was very nervous. It has been an ongoing joke with my brother about how little he even looks towards the TV cameras when giving his speeches every day he goes somewhere.

After 17 months he was finally forced to give an Oval Office speech where he HAD to look at the nation for a long time straight. I'm sure it wasn't easy, but dang, I wanted him to be groundbreaking here - he's the leader - it just didn't deliver what we needed, although he wasn't horrible, nor what he said.

[geckosfeet]

2. The gulf is wasted. Expecting anyone outside of god and time to restore it is beyond naive.

Besides the criminally negligent act committed by BP, Halliburton and Transocean, the gulf is subject to the stresses of daily shipping commerce and hundreds of other oil wells and platforms. My guess is that the other wells regularly spew smaller, less detectable quantities of their filth into the gulf.

[Divine Discontent]

4. yes, I was reading today about hundreds of oil platforms that leak oil all the time, and it was

rather hypocritical of the other oil giants to belittle BP, even though their flow wasn't as large, but they still all leaked and killed the oceans.

[Phx_Dem]

5. I think it's pretty sad how many Democrats doubt his word considering

all the promises he's kept and how many are still n the works in his first 17 months. Nice to know how cynical so many Democrats are and how little faith they have in the person they voted for. :(

Promises Kept - 114
Compromise - 35
Promise Broken - 19
Stalled - 82
In the Works - 251


http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

[scheming daemons]

6. You don't understand

If he's broken ONE promise, then to his detractors, he's broken them all.


If he's not kept their particular pet promise, then to his detractors, he's kept none at all.

[XemaSab]

8. This is a Katrina or a 9/11 as far as the expected response

It's not a political promise he broke, it's a CATASTROPHE he's not responding to.

If W had waited 2 months before giving a major speech on 9/11, there would have been riots in the streets.

[Divine Discontent]

9. to think it took nearly 18 months for him to give an Oval Office speech is also noteworthy...

tie that to the infrequent amount of press conferences where the president USED to take a flurry of questions for a good while, and you see a pattern. He seems bothered by having to do this stuff... too B*shlike in only that regard... oh, okay, and the wars, and being against Gay-marriage for religious reasons, and letting corporations runs things...

[XemaSab]

10. I've posted two threads in the last week

"What Obama can learn from Bush."

Bush got up and made a big display and threw forth policy suggestions. They all sucked, but at least the man stood for something.

[XemaSab]

7. Did he make any promises

other than "restoration of the gulf," which we all know will take 20 years AFTER they get the thing capped?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. He told us to pray