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President Obama's first internet address, Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 5:55 am:
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This is a new era. We've gone from radio addresses by FDR to television addresses and now internet addresses. And you can download them for posterity, to share, or listen to later, when you have some quiet time away from kids and other distractions. Technology is amazing. And I love how this new president embraces it. This is a forward thinking man, not a neobarb like the last bunch to infest our nation's capital.
This is obviously a very contentious issue. It has been and it will remain so, whatever is finally decided about the stimulus package.
Republican opposition is almost laughable. They say "You can't do this! It doesn't have any trickle-down economics in it!"
Of course, we've tried trickle-down economics before. It doesn't work. No matter how often they try it, it doesn't work. The wealthy just pocket the money. They don't create new jobs with it.
They have had their chance. It's time for a change. It's their failed economic policies that got us here in the first place.
AssociatedContent.com put Obama's response this way:
Some of Obama's supporters are upset with him regarding the Palestine issue. There are some real opponents of Israel in this country and they see this whole situation in terms of Israel=evil, Palestinians=good. There is talk of holocaust - by the Jews this time and not against them. To be sure, the news out of Palestine is grim. To be sure, atrocities have been committed. And to be honest, I do not see any drastic changes in the future. I warned of this on Digg over the past few days. The cost to Obama in political capital would be too great. The Israel lobby is very strong. The US has had a special relationship with Israel since 1948. The US has invested a great deal in the State of Israel. It's not likely we'll abandon them now.
That said, I think it's too early to condemn Obama. He has been president for less than a week. Isreal is holding new elections and it's not like he can go there and talk to...who? He has no idea who will be elected. He has appointed Mitchell as his special envoy but Mitchell has not had a chance to go over there yet either (according to Reuters, he's expected to go next week).
The truth is, people are impatient. They want change now. They're used to living in a world that offers immediate gratification. This sounds trite, but change doesn't happen overnight. We need to be patient. We need to give diplomacy a chance. We need to give Obama a chance.
I'm a little disappointed in people who are willing to condemn him so quickly, or who think the Gaza situation is the most important situation facing either Obama or our country.
Finally, Pakistan is still in the news. So far, the US has made no official announcement about the rocket attacks. It's been suggested that CIA-controlled drones made the strikes. We won't know for sure what's going on until somebody accepts responsibility.
All this goes to show that the problems facing Obama are many and varied. I would not want to be that man right now.
Download the Recovery Plan Metrics Report
This is a new era. We've gone from radio addresses by FDR to television addresses and now internet addresses. And you can download them for posterity, to share, or listen to later, when you have some quiet time away from kids and other distractions. Technology is amazing. And I love how this new president embraces it. This is a forward thinking man, not a neobarb like the last bunch to infest our nation's capital.
This is obviously a very contentious issue. It has been and it will remain so, whatever is finally decided about the stimulus package.
Republican opposition is almost laughable. They say "You can't do this! It doesn't have any trickle-down economics in it!"
Of course, we've tried trickle-down economics before. It doesn't work. No matter how often they try it, it doesn't work. The wealthy just pocket the money. They don't create new jobs with it.
They have had their chance. It's time for a change. It's their failed economic policies that got us here in the first place.
AssociatedContent.com put Obama's response this way:
After listening to a critique of the nearly nine hundred billion dollars stimulus package from Republican Congressional leaders, along with some helpful suggestions on how to fix it, President Barack Obama had a two word answer.
"I won," President Obama said, indicating why the Republicans were not going to have any significant input into the bill.
Some of Obama's supporters are upset with him regarding the Palestine issue. There are some real opponents of Israel in this country and they see this whole situation in terms of Israel=evil, Palestinians=good. There is talk of holocaust - by the Jews this time and not against them. To be sure, the news out of Palestine is grim. To be sure, atrocities have been committed. And to be honest, I do not see any drastic changes in the future. I warned of this on Digg over the past few days. The cost to Obama in political capital would be too great. The Israel lobby is very strong. The US has had a special relationship with Israel since 1948. The US has invested a great deal in the State of Israel. It's not likely we'll abandon them now.
That said, I think it's too early to condemn Obama. He has been president for less than a week. Isreal is holding new elections and it's not like he can go there and talk to...who? He has no idea who will be elected. He has appointed Mitchell as his special envoy but Mitchell has not had a chance to go over there yet either (according to Reuters, he's expected to go next week).
The truth is, people are impatient. They want change now. They're used to living in a world that offers immediate gratification. This sounds trite, but change doesn't happen overnight. We need to be patient. We need to give diplomacy a chance. We need to give Obama a chance.
I'm a little disappointed in people who are willing to condemn him so quickly, or who think the Gaza situation is the most important situation facing either Obama or our country.
Finally, Pakistan is still in the news. So far, the US has made no official announcement about the rocket attacks. It's been suggested that CIA-controlled drones made the strikes. We won't know for sure what's going on until somebody accepts responsibility.
All this goes to show that the problems facing Obama are many and varied. I would not want to be that man right now.
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