Obama addresses Congress

[run_to_win]

"The check is in the mail?"  Really?  WHAT CHECK?

Someone created this in honor of the $8/week payroll tax break.


Maybe he's taking his cue from Washington State which just sent out $1.00 checks to 250,000 food stamp recipients.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008775541_apwafoodstampchecks.html

[run_to_win]

First, get a new graphic. Second, there has been no whining here. I've just not said anything at all. I have nothing to whine about.

Whining, bitching, complaining ... sorry, all your posts sound the same to me.  Do you know Camille Paglia?  Apparently she knows you.

[Phishfan]

Someone created this in honor of the $8/week payroll tax break.


Maybe he's taking his cue from Washington State which just sent out $1.00 checks to 250,000 food stamp recipients.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008775541_apwafoodstampchecks.html

Funny. Where do you get the $8 figure?

[run_to_win]

That's the number I've heard thrown around.  Here are some sources I found for you....

http://theanchoressonline.com/2009/02/11/the-13-a-week-stimulus/

http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-tax-cuts-start-april-1/335056

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

Oh boy.

For the first time I am a little nervous about our President.  I am thinking that he's about to out punt his coverage.

Under promise and over deliver.  Not hard to do.  The guy went from solving our recession to making sure every American has a college degree to medical insurance for all to (wrongly) stating that America invented the car and promising to cure cancer.

The guy said that we would cure cancer on his watch.  That's great, Prez.  But what the FUCK do you think people have been trying to do for decades? 

Men dreamed of going to the moon for centuries before JFK promised we would get there. 

I guarantee you this -- Obama will not achieve all of the goals he has set forth.  But at least he has good goals and he seem genuinely determined in reaching them. 

And he did not promise to cure cancer during his administration, he said, "It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time."

[MaineDolFan]

I didn't realize that JFK promised we could go to the moon all while all promising 134 other huge, and unrealistic, things.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

I didn't realize that JFK promised we could go to the moon all while all promising 134 other huge, and unrealistic, things.

He also promised Cuba would become a free nation and Castro would be ousted as dictator.  We all know how that went down.

[MaineDolFan]

Lookit - I am an Obama fan / supporter.

That said I am also not one for ear candy.  A large portion of his "address to Congree" (cough, cough...speech to America) was exactly that:  Ear candy.

[Phishfan]

^^^ Why should this speech have been any different than any other Presidential speech I have heard in my 36 years?

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

to (wrongly) stating that America invented the car

The president was not wrong.  You may not agree with him, but he is not wrong.

To say he is wrong would be like saying that on a history test answer the question, "when did world war 2 begin?"  "Sept 1, 1939" because you were looking for the answer "Dec 7, 1941"

There are multiple correct answers to who invented the automobile depending on if you define an automobile as one that has in internal combostine engine or if you also include steam power, and if by invent you mean patent, design, or build the first working one.

One of those correct answers is George B. Selden.  You may not agree with the president but he did not state anything that was wrong!

[MaineDolFan]

The President WAS wrong.

Believe it or not - he can be wrong from time to time.  Would you like me to post all the newslinks from CNN to MSNBC to Fox to AOL that points it out...or will one do?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/obamagaffeamericadidntinventautomobile

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

The President WAS wrong.

Believe it or not - he can be wrong from time to time.  Would you like me to post all the newslinks from CNN to MSNBC to Fox to AOL that points it out...or will one do?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/obamagaffeamericadidntinventautomobile

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3DE1130EE3ABC4052DFB7668389639EDE

[Dphins4me]

Staying informed is a good thing. Constantly whining is not and saying the same thing over and over is not.

When something changes I'll change my tune.  Until then they are doing the same thing, so I have to say the same thing. 

You say you're watching their actions, but Obama has barely been in office for a month..

  Been a busy month for him.  Its not like he has been feeding the cows back at his ranch.

I'm taking the wait and see approach..

Wasn't that stance in my first reply in this thread?

Actually said it twice in that thread.

Second.  He talked the talk, but gonna have to take a wait & see.

The only thing we can do is wait

Why was my wait & see wrong, but yours is not?

Gulliable? No. In an open relationship? Yes. Love and sex are NOT the same thing.

  While Love & sex are not the same.  When you proclaim you are in love with another, then no way are you climbing into bed with someone else if you are in love with another.

I still love my ex-girlfriend, but I'm not in love with her.   Two different loves.

[Dphins4me]

Oh boy.

For the first time I am a little nervous about our President.  I am thinking that he's about to out punt his coverage.

Under promise and over deliver.  Not hard to do.  The guy went from solving our recession to making sure every American has a college degree to medical insurance for all to (wrongly) stating that America invented the car and promising to cure cancer.

The guy said that we would cure cancer on his watch.  That's great, Prez.  But what the FUCK do you think people have been trying to do for decades?  

Oh, all that and let's finally figure out the two wars.

I was a little insulted last night.  I'm not much for ear candy.  And last night was ear candy, sorry.

"The check is in the mail?"  Really?  WHAT CHECK?

You're going to magically reform health care in the NEXT YEAR?  Huh.  I guess no one else has ever tried that?

I love ambition.  Don't get me wrong.  And I understand his whole thing is "we can do more than one thing at a time."  Of course you can.  But why not toss in "we'll colonize the moon by the end of my term to ease over crowding" while you're at it.

There is ambition and then there are pipe dreams aimed at people that speech writers, apparently, don't think know the difference.

Good speech?  Yes.  Did he come down a couple notches in my eyes after last night?  Maybe not quite yet.  If he on the clock in a massive way now?  Yep.  I expect cancer to be cured by June.  I expect health care to be completely overhauled and running like a fine tuned engine this time next year.  I expect to see a flood of Americans graduating from college in the next two years.  I expect Detroit to pump out the world's best cars soon and I also expect to see some wind turbines on my street by 2011.

You're on the clock, Prez.  You set the goals, now go achieve them.

  To be honest & could I have change the voice I could have sworn I heard a high majority of those same catch phrases before.

Paraphrasing BTW

America is the greatest country on earth

America will reclaim being a leader of the world

Same stuff different year.

Little FYI:  The men he is putting over Detroit.  Do not drive American made cars.

[Dphins4me]

Actually - if you were paying attention at all - you would know he's been beating the "we need more in Afghanistan and less in Iraq drum for a LONG time. 

  I know, but did he ever bring that up when promising to bring them home?