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The Spectacle Blog
The White House has just released these excerpts from President Obama's opening remarks before tonight's press conference:
[W]e've put in place a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts. It's a strategy to create jobs, to help responsible homeowners, to re-start lending, and to grow our economy over the long-term. And we are beginning to see signs of progress.
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The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation, so that we do not face another crisis like this ten or twenty years from now. We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil. We invest in our schools and our teachers so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world. We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and our government. And in this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term - even under the most conservative estimates.
At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It's with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.
That's what green jobs and green businesses will do. That's what a highly-skilled workforce will do. That's what an efficient health care system that controls costs and entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid will do. That's why this budget is inseparable from this recovery - because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.
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We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together; when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other - that's when we succeed. That's when we prosper. And that's what is needed right now. So let us look toward the future with a renewed sense of common purpose, a renewed determination, and most importantly, a renewed confidence that a better day will come.
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Daphne| 3.24.09 @ 5:21PM
More BS from a BS artist. Zzzzzzzzzzz....snore.
Rick V.| 3.24.09 @ 5:23PM
Terrific - I just hope he can follow the teleprompter without screwing it up.
Ron Freakin' Burgundy is now president of the United States.
Pete| 3.24.09 @ 6:13PM
Will he actually have the 'audacity' to say this with a straight face? I am afraid, given what we have seen so far, the answer is, yes.
"And in this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term - even under the most conservative estimates. "
Patricia Helvenston| 3.24.09 @ 6:15PM
This is the same old tired line of lies, lies, lies, Obamanut job has been peddling for months. Nothing new, more promises to utterly destroy the US and world economy so he can become President of Earth. Why would anyone bother to listen to this idiot? What a waste of time. It is time for Obama to be impeached and proceedings should start soon. Latest polls show he has 50% support 50% opposition. The positive ratings are tanking fast and the negatives are growing every day.
Mary| 3.24.09 @ 7:06PM
His omnipresence is cloying like Evening In Paris.
He needs to take a page from the Master and "get back to work for the American people." No, make that begin to go to work for the American people, already.
It's been embarrassing for a little while now. And contrary to the yammerings of his booster buds, he can't muscle from behind with intellect because it's just not there. At least not in the measure it's currently needed: The ragged bourgeois. Kind of like the ragged aristocracy of Buckley's latest: "I voted for him because he was precocious."
Precocious? Sniveling while stung.
Sheesh.
Morons to the right of us, morons to the left. What's a republican to do?
S.L. Toddard| 3.24.09 @ 7:34PM
Cloying like so many of the bloggers here at AmSpec.
Jeremiah| 3.24.09 @ 10:00PM
Rick V
Actually, presidents give press conferences without teleprompters.
This is why W gave so few of them. Obama has given more press conferences during the last two months than W gave in his last year of office.
That's because he's not afraid of speaking impromptu and, unlike his predecessor, he doesn't need to be told what to say.
I know you think Limbaugh's little teleprompter jokes are quite funny, but they're getting lame and stale and actually not all that accurate.
Satire has to be true, at some level.
CH| 3.24.09 @ 11:39PM
Obama had a giant screen to read from: The clown's a dunce, everything he does is tightly choreographed. TOTUS