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Sebastian B. O. Buniontow VI| 2.25.09 @ 12:51AM

And, of course you are aware that George W. Bush was more popular one month in (62% approval) than the esteemed Obama (59%)?

Obama's rhetoric will quickly face the daily grind of reality (hint: monthly unemployment numbers) at which point he will face an incredible fall off.

Cynicism replaces hopium and changium by summer 2009.

Joseph| 2.25.09 @ 1:00AM

Don't understimate the unfortunate propensity of vast segments of the American public to be continued to be swayed by lofty and well delivered oratory.

Interloper| 2.25.09 @ 1:44AM

Obama rules!

The tendency of the far Right to understate the President's popularity is amusing. The lowest he ranks in any current poll is 63 percent favorable in Gallop's. Other polls have him as high as 68 percent favorable. The numbers are rising in post-speech surveys.

Nor is what the President is saying hard to understand. For example, by spending money to get most Americans basic health care now, society will pay less money for health care for advanced health problems in the future. Just preventing, say, thousands of new diabetes cases, will save millions of dollars down the road.

Pecos Pete| 2.25.09 @ 7:33AM

What if all of the billions spent on medical research don't discover a cure for cancer or diabetes? What if all of the billions spent on green energy don't solve energy availability or the bogus earth warming ... how do you solve something that is bogus? Okay, I know ... we'll hope ... and then we'll get change.

ame| 2.25.09 @ 9:31AM

Finally, with Jindal we have a leader on the national stage, not an empty styrofoam Greek column Obama poser.
Bobby Jindal is one of a very few truly brilliant people who have ideas that work and have proven to do so. He has more smarts in his socks than Obama has in his pretend sentimental idiotic "dreams."
Jindal is a man of principle, not politics; a man with an ethical and moral center, not "above my pay grade" - "I screwed up" - "I won" pureile whining; a leader, not a facilitator; a person of action, not staging; someone who believes in the power of America and Americans, not the power of government; a man of purpose, not empty promise.
Bobby Jindal has actually served the America he leads, not just taken from it for personal gain.
Jindal and other young Republicans such as Cantor and Ryan finally give me some real hope.
Obama couldn't lead a dog to a fire hydrant, but he can put dogs in a "study group" and teach them to bark.
Jindal is real, a leader who has proven himself through his actions, someone we can actually trust and someone who delivers, not the solipsistic pathetic frat brat elitist race baiting welfare Chicago thug wind blower we now must endure. I didn't listen to Obambi's speech because he never says ANYTHING - NO SUBSTANCE, just dissembling equivocation, but I did listen to Jindal because he not only speaks with substance, he delivers it.

hardball| 2.25.09 @ 11:46AM

I'm so fed up with "what the majority" feels, or thinks, or wants. Because it's a "majority" does not make the idea or actions sound, moral, Constitutional, or just plain right (there is a "right" and "wrong"). In spite of this, the media continues to promote "majority" ideas as productive. Two wolves and a sheep is a majority. And right now we have rabid wolves in power.

Duane Hinde| 2.25.09 @ 11:54AM

As the American Indian said about the white man, "He speaks with a forked tongue." So does mr. obama!!!! I listen to his speech last night and there was nothing new. He is STILL out there talking like he did when he was running for the job at the White House. Nothing New, just a lot of B.S.

John lloyd Scharf| 2.25.09 @ 1:22PM

It definitely was a well delivered speech. I wonder how long Chairwoman Pelosi took to write it for her Puppet President?

“For bipartisanship to work, Speaker Pelosi needs to reconsider the closed process she’s used and give members of both parties, the press, and the public a reasonable opportunity to participate in the process. It was irresponsible when Republican leaders rushed certain bills to the floor as the majority party, and it’s still irresponsible when Democrats do it today. Americans have rightly rejected the old ways of Washington, D.C., and have made clear their desire to have us work together to solve the country’s problems.” was a press release provided by the office of Congressman Greg Walden before President Obama's speech of February 24, 2009.

Oregon's lone Republican in Congress, Greg Walden's aide said he's been suffering from a bad sore throat, but that Walden did watch the address.

Greg Walden said, however, "You know I never found you could borrow your way into prosperity."

I can understand how Representative Greg Walden has had a hard time swollowing this speech when you know it is just another Ponzi scheme that is called ARRA or the Stimulus Plan. Maybe I am suffering from a bad cold as well.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors rather than from profit. In this case, we are selling as yet unborn children into slavery to finance this.

We will start paying this, of course, in another way. When the government borrows and spends while handing out tax cuts, they have to print money. The more money they print, the less a dollar is worth. That translates into inflation.

So, this bill will stimulate the budget deficit and inflation.

The handy out in claiming 3.5 million jobs will be created or "saved," is that you cannot track what jobs might be "saved" by ARRA. Even if we lose 3.5 million more jobs, Pelosi's Puppet, the President, can still claim it would be 7 million without it. This is dishonest as a claim.

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