President Obama's Speech

I'm sure you heard it or read it but just in case, here is the text.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_ ... obama_text

What does everyone think? I thought it was a very good speech and he said a few things that I've been waiting a very long time to hear a president say:

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Best of luck to our new President and COYW's, wait that doesnt sound right. Come On Fulham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh yeah, and then I heard that the stock market took the largest-ever inaguration day plunge. Do you think it was because of this?

 

RE: President Obama

The speech was pretty good but...

Frankly, I have never been more embarrassed to be an American after what I saw and what I heard coming from the crowd at the inauguration today as they booed and sang that song. Classless liberals. We remain a nation divided, and it was no more evident than what happened today when they welcomed theirs and booed the departing like a bunch of drunken hooligans at football match. Pathetic.

 

I'm gonna make it short and sweet.
RR decided to tone it down, but his first post reflects the results of how Obama got elected. It stands.

If McCain -or Dubya - had stumbled that badly in the swearing-in, the hoots and hollers would echo coast to coast. He was nervous and mind racing at the portent. Discussion closed. But the fact remains...

The 'poet', second rate Maya Angelou wannabe, displays the great vacuity of the mindset that elected Obama.

The closing prayer by the race merchant shows how likely it is that those folks really will 'come together'.

Dubya and his administration's efforts in the transition, on the other hand, show exactly how serious the problems Obama faces. Good luck to him... and us.

Don it isnt hard to find.

 

clearly shows in the search results, Don.

I'd like to point out that everything Obama had direct control over got little criticism from conservative bloggers.
Slate: Mickey Kaus - fine speech!

However that remains the worry. Obama's pragmatism is seen as remarkably encouraging, but what sops will he give away, to counterweight those hard choices, that directly influence us for ill in the future?

 

Gentlemen, this is not a new phenomenon -- two bit criers from both wings have acted ridiculously since the hippie movements in the 60s and probably earlier than that. I remember when i was in college and Bush Sr was sworn in. A left winger on my campus wore a black armband to commemorate the occasion.

It is easy to make noise and be seen in the media if you are willing to make an ass of yourself -- that is how PETA markets their positions. Funny thing is, nitwits like that are Americans too. Pissant, two-bit, embarrassing Americans, but Americans nonetheless.

Also, Heather is spot on about the Bush/ Obama/ Roberts brouha and the Daily Show coverage.

Something I find disheartening is how many young, college age students listen to them and take what they ahve to say seriously. Maybe I did somehting like that too when I was young, I can't remember. But I hypothesized that dim bulbs that showcase more sizzle than steak will not have staying power. I guess I was wrong.

I was sub teaching yesterday, and during the speech, the school looked like every office in America -- not a whole lot of industry going on . I liekd what he had to say about Nat'l Security and that, oh yeah, there is an enemy out there that very much wants to wipe us off the map. They aren't going to fold up shop with a lot of prodding, to paraphrase President Obama.

Now, what are we going to do about it.

 

I'm not Don. I watched the coverage and there were loud boo's as President Bush was announced. I couldn't freekin' believe it!.....or could I. I guess it comes as no surprise to expect that sort of behavior from liberals. They were also singing the na, na, na song. They couldn't just revel in Obama's swearing in, they had to turn into a beer soaked juvenile sporting match where the opponents are ridiculed. That my friend is classless. My last post on this.

 

To be sure, if I lived in northern CA, home of the most strident and embarrassing political crybabies on either side of the spectrum, I'd find them pretty disgusting too.

 

Politics are way too much like sports fanaticism, only with higher stakes and longer cycles. In our hopelessly flawed two-party system, the analogy is, "we're rooting for laundry." Hence the booing, the competition of being the better fan who rests on the higher ground, and defending one's allegiance to the point of exhaustion. Shouting talk radio, negative blogging, "win at all costs" mentality.

What I love about being an Independent is that I get to applaud (or hiss) either side.

 

Highlights of the inauguration for me:

* the parts where Obama shut up for half a second and then you could hear a bunch of half-claps scattered about the crowd
* generic white guy talking about martin luther king
* the "unique musical experience" that was actually a strings group playing Infiniti Q45 music, which made me think of ball bearings rolling along the cracks of a hand crafted luxury automobile...maaaaaagic!
* the random cut to to a live feed of kenyans watching the inauguration
* Obama going into "SUPPORT THE TROOPS" mode. Fanboys prankd!
* Bono singing the national anthem in traditional Gaelic

ok that last one didn't really happen, but it would have been cool

 

That fictional highlight would've been my favorite moment (other than that, Aretha's voice and big hat w/ bow are my highlights...and she ain't fictional.)

As Mr. Meredith once sang: turn out the lights, the party's over...and now the real business starts - the whole economic meltdown and two wars thing persist as the fiberglass shavings in my underwear.

And enough with the Nor-Cal populace degredation...as with anywhere, if you ignore the idiots that surround you and bask in nature's beauty, everything's more than alright. And we gots lots of that nature's beauty thing going for us, which is nice.

 

:banana:

 

Depends on how cute Hope is!


And Aretha's hat and bow was the comedic highlight of the inauguration. I think someone tried to park a humvee on it.

No slamming of N Cal intended, only of the knuckleheads that call the place home, just like every other place N Cal has knuckleheads.

 

Re: RE: President Obama

Taking those few as representative of all Obama voters or all liberals is no more realistic than generalizing that all McCain/Bush voters or all conservatives are toothless inbred gun-toting homophobes.

 

RE: Re: RE: President Obama

look what you guys did to my thread that was meant to be about Obama's speech