Best Presidential Address in Decades!

[MineralMan]

If you don't like some of it, listen to the rest.

Dynamite!

[Booster]

1. I totally agree. The ball is in the Repugs court now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Waiting for the dogpile in 3...2...1...

:hi:

[MineralMan]

26. Let the dogpile begin. It doesn't matter.

What matters is what happens tomorrow and down the road. This is just a kickoff. There's an entire game to play. It was, in short, a masterful speech. If he follows through, it will be a win.

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. He killed it!

[quaker bill]

4. agreed

[Botany]

5. Hit it out of the ballpark

Pass this bill now.

[Enrique]

6. only decades?

why do you hate obama?

[Scuba]

7. He started slowly, finished strong. I like it alot. n/t

[MineralMan]

8. I think he nailed this 100%. I don't agree with everything in the

speech, but that's not what's important. He simply brought it!

[LooseWilly]

38. If you don't agree with everything, then he didn't nail it 100%... that's just what 100% means...

Maybe you should be honest and just say 93.77%, for instance. Just saying... ;) try to keep it "fact based".

[MineralMan]

43. It depends on what the goal of this speech was. I believe he

met that goal 100%. I will never agree 100% with anything any President or Congress does. I'm not about that. It's all in direction, not specifics.

[orpupilofnature57]

9. He brought to point their culpability, in the way things are.Comparisons

in the philosophies of Economical cures was smart.

[Lucian]

10. Actions speak louder than words.

Good speeches don't help those who need the help.

[joshcryer]

12. He's not a dictator, obstructionists will continue to block.

And if they do they will lose their respectively elections.

[MineralMan]

16. This is how a President acts. His power is in his speech.

Presidents of the United States cannot DO that much. They have to lead people to insist that Congress do things. This speech was masterful.

You can say what you wish. It will not detract from the power of this particular address. Now...we get to see what Congress is really made of.

[MineralMan]

17. Dupe.

DU posting glitch.

[joshcryer]

11. He completely destroyed the Republican party in 45 minutes.

Utterly destroyed, eviscerated.

[Parker CA]

13. Pass this bill. -- great line to hammer the GOP with. American Job Act. Another winner. Very strong.

[sufrommich]

14. It was a great speech. Looks like taxes are going up for

the wealthy and less tax loopholes for corporations. Jobs for teachers and construction workers. Maybe some help for homeowners in trouble.

[polmaven]

39. Well....

to say taxes are going up for the wealthy and less tax loopholes for corporations may be a little wishful thinking.The president's bill, to be submitted tomorrow, will propose an increase, but that doesn't mean it will happen.

[Waiting For Everyman]

15. For this moment, it was an "A".

The trade agreement push was wrong, and more could've been right, but he hit it out of the park in my opinion. I have a hunch he will follow through and hold the Repubs' feet to the fire too, if they obstruct it. He seemed determined.

I criticize a lot about the POTUS, I'm not a cheerleader, but I believe in credit where credit's due.

[MineralMan]

21. Tonight, we had only this moment.

Tomorrow is another day. Obama owned this moment.

[Waiting For Everyman]

24. I agree. n//t

[Inuca]

31. And tomorrow he is going to be in Richmond

Cantor territory. And next Tuesday in Columbus which happens to be in OH.

[MineralMan]

40. Yup. Obama's on the road again.

Subtle reference to "Local Hero," one of my favorite movies.

[FarLeftFist]

18. Boehner fought back tears.

[loyalsister]

19. It was awesome

Letting them know he's coming to their districts to lobby on behalf of the voters was genius.

[avaistheone1]

20. This was a great and historic speech by Pres. Obama

He really needs to regularly take the bully pulpit and hammer the ideas in his speech home, until this speech is on everyone's tongues in this country.

Obama also needs to go forward and not cave at every Republican move and whim. If Obama keeps the momentum with his speeches and dealings with the republicans and maintains,furthers and starts to institute the concepts he brought forward tonight - despite a lot of the crap Obama has done - I think he will win himself a second term.

[MineralMan]

23. It was. And I hope he learns something from its success.

If he follows through on this, he will not only get reelected, he will get much of this enacted in Congress.

[Scurrilous]

22. K & R

:thumbsup:

[OneGrassRoot]

25. Loved it. K&R n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

27. I think it was a home run...

But..I think the Republicans will fight this tooth and claw. He needs to take this on the road and get the American people behind him, over the Republican idiots.

[MineralMan]

28. He's going to take it on the road. Just watch him.

The Republicans know what happened tonight, and they have no defense against it.

[joshcryer]

32. Yep.

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[muffin1]

30. ?

14-year-old boy? Do go on...:eyes:

[Solomon]

33. lol. enjoy your stay

[Botany]

36. Damn I wanted to ask him if he liked his pizza by ....

..... the slice?

[MineralMan]

34. No. Incorrect. Nice try.

But fail.

[rury]

35. It was the BEST I have heard in my lifetime

and I am 60 years old and have heard lots of presidential addresses!

[MineralMan]

37. I'm 66 years old. I have to say that JFK's inaugural address

topped this, but not by much, and it was a different speech for a different time.

[rury]

47. I liked JFK's inaugural speech a lot, but Obama topped it tonight

It was just pitch perfect for the crisis we are facing.
The ball is in Congress court now...let's see what they do with it.

[jpgray]

41. I wish I could see it.

To my mind, the jobs bill amounts to the 2009 stimulus cut in half. Unfortunately a great deal of it is tax cuts, which put more money in the hands of people who are desperately paying down debt (consumers) or hoarding capital awaiting a shift in demand (large employers). I don't see how that leads to jobs. Wells Fargo or whoever paying half the taxes on their first $5 million in payroll won't mean much to them in choosing to hire when large employers are hoarding trillions, but it is lost revenue to us.

The great and necessary parts of it, UI extension, aid to states, and infrastructure spending, are all sensible measures but only the last guarantees the creation of jobs. The first undoes some of the damage from lack of work, the second will save many jobs, but it's strange to me that the job-creating portion of the bill adds up to less than an eighth of the whole.

As for the rest, free trade, lowering the corporate tax rate and Medicare reform are not the stuff of inspiration. Maybe if you're David Brooks?

[MineralMan]

42. OK. Wait and see what happens. Seriously.

This is not a speech of specifics. It is a speech about breaking barriers and enlisting popular support. I think it succeeded masterfully at that. Right now, that's the thing that's needed. Put it to the Republicans. The President, himself, can do very little. He can, however galvanize public support to shift the Republicans off their asses. That's that this speech was about. The measures will do something. The people will do the rest. There is no quick solution to this. It will require another term and a new Congress.

[jpgray]

46. Obama outclasses his opponents in responsibility, brains and policy

That always comes across. But this was just as true, and should have been just as obvious, in 2010. I'm not sure how the same (or very similar) ideas will produce a different effect on the public. I guess I wanted something new, bold, and out of left field. Of course it would never pass, but it would hold more of a place in people's minds, I think, than tax credits.

[MineralMan]

48. What this speech did was to call out Republicans.

That's what it was for. I think it worked.

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. Agreed. But too bad no pundits afterward, only terror threat

announcement...

[MineralMan]

45. A Republi-CON. That's what that terror threat is. The Republicans

have no response to Obama's speech.

[NYC_SKP]

49. Well, I'm Fucking Pissed Off, Personally -- You All Can Party All You Want...

x(

I had an emergency dental deal, dammit.

So, the speech, it was a good one, eh?

:shrug:

[66 dmhlt]

50. "Meep, Meep Motherfuckers!" Or to put it more genteelly ...