Posted on 02/24/2009 3:30:09 PM PST by topfile
President Obama will pledge Tuesday night that the nation "will rebuild, we will recover," as he delivers an address to a joint session of Congress and with a nervous nation watching at home.
"While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," Mr. Obama will say, according to excerpts of his remarks.
In lofty language, Mr. Obama is expected to promise a new path forward and to draw distinctions with the way the country ran during the last eight years.
"What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more," Mr. Obama will say.
But the speech is also Mr. Obama's first major chance to put specifics to the promises he piled up during the campaign: to enact universal health care, to withdraw troops from Iraq, to change the tax code by increasing the burden on the wealthy and lowering the burden on low-income families, and to pursue a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
In the Republican response, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will acknowledge Republicans' big-government agenda and fealty to earmark spending were failures, but he will say Democrats are making those same mistakes now.
Democratic leaders say their legislation will grow the economy. What it will do is grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt," Mr. Jindal said in excerpts released to the press early.
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That's highly doubtful as long as he's in office.
LOL
I'm hoping he doesn't pull a Chávez and abolish the Presidential term limit. He has many worshipers as we all know. Oh, and the US Constitution is meaningless to Obama.
Slight correction in the interest of his real meaning and intent.
...and we all know what a economic genius Carter turned out to be. Obama's always wishing he was someone else. Who's next? Maybe.....Jefferson? Has he tried on that persona yet? I half expect to see him in a powdered wig soon.
He just said “we will emerge stronger” and the whole Reichstag, uh... I mean Congress, stood and applauded. ;)
:’D
Unfortunately, BHO can communicate even if the message is wrong. Poor Jindal, was just an amateur and though a good guy, and had some points, the populace will simply forget the common sense that could and should have been expressed but as usual, Pubs cannot communicate.
Clinton advised him to talk more positively and so he did..or tried, he didn’t change my mind one bit about how he is ruining this country.
Additional billions to crooked bankers is what I got from Obama’s double talk.
If he had just been consistently positive his credibility would have been high. Now whom do you believe...Grim Obama or Rosy Obama?.....neither.
As Rush said, no matter what BO says, BO is going to do the opposite. When he says he is going to cut the deficit in half, he really means he is going to double it.
Who do we rebuild and recover when you’re in the process of destroying it. Don’t we need to stop digging the hole first?
In terms of destroying or digging holes in the financial sense, as in rapidly declining markets, it was already decided.
The incredible, blatant corruption from the Obama White House crew, carried over from Paulson, who also belongs to the exclusive club of Big Banking elitists controlling America's & the world's financial future, while they pocket billions and also have federal investigative agencies in their pocket. Nothing will change -- unless something very drastic happens from the fed up public.
...the speech is also [Zero]'s first major chance to put specifics to the promises he piled up during the campaign: to enact universal health care, to withdraw troops from Iraq, to change the tax code by increasing the burden on the wealthy and lowering the burden on low-income families, and to pursue a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions... "Democratic leaders say their legislation will grow the economy. What it will do is grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt," Mr. Jindal said in excerpts released to the press early.
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