Obama’s Inaugural Address
In just three hours, Barack Obama will take the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States. After he does so, he will deliver his first speech as the nation’s chief executive. That speech, even more than his mostly dignified conduct since the election, will set the tone for his Administration.
This time, his speaking style should serve him well. For the better part of his career in the national spotlight, his speeches have been short on specifics and long on rhetoric. He need not articulate any policy proposals in his address, but speak to the nation he will then lead and not just the partisans who helped elect him.
I am delighted it will be a relatively short speech, “about 15-20 minutes.” All he need do is acknowledge the greatness of this country, perhaps the uniqueness of our history, a nation built on an ideal rather than an ethnicity and even the significance of the moment. To be sure, he can and should offer a broad vision of where he intends to lead us. But, just a broad outline.
Today is not the day for specific policies. Today, is the day to celebrate the greatness of our country and the smoothness of the transition from the Administration of a man from one political party to that of a man from the opposing party. Such a transition first distinguished this nation two-hundred-and-eight years ago, when John Adams peacefully yielded the presidency to his then-political rival, his once and future friend, Thomas Jefferson.
To acknowledge the meaning of such a transition, the new President must pay tribute to his predecessor whose Administration, by all accounts, has helped ensure a smooth transition. That acknowledgment must be so ungrudging that the angriest voices of the left, dedicated for so long to demeaning Bush, will pitch a fit at its generosity.
In recent days, Obama has shown he can rise to the occasion, saying that Bush is “good man who loves his family and loves his country, [who] made the best decisions that he could at times under some very difficult circumstances.†Let us hope he does so again today.
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Not a very poetic or uplifting inaugural address. The crowd seemed bored. I only counted 7 applause lines. I think the crowd was hoping for a more Castro or Chavez like speech. You know, America sucks, the military is ours now…that kind of thing. Do you think Barack looks up to the job? I’m a little worried. People left the mall awfully early. No tears no chanting no uplifting cheers. What a missed opportunity for the new President to motivate us all. He didn’t speak to me, a conservative. He didn’t bring me in. Sad. A missed opportunity.
Good lord the poet was……abysmal. A smattering of applause. Smattering….I think that’s the word for the whole thing frankly. Oh well….THUD.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 12:33 pm - January 20, 2009
I completely disagree with the person who said this address was not memorable. The themes of the address were modeled after Lincoln’s second inaugural address (“with malice towards none”). Which was also noted for being concise, direct, and a call to a higher place.
Finally, for the first time in my life time, we have a President who can actually make a real speech. Now all we need is to learn to listen.
The speech was eloquent, challenging, and straightforward.
For the first time in many years, I am proud to be an American.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 20, 2009 @ 12:41 pm - January 20, 2009
How sad, Tom that, only now you are proud to be an American. Sad, pathetic almost. It takes the inauguration of a one of your political partisans for you to be proud of your nation.
I was proud of my nation even when Bill Clinton was president and am now that a man I worked to defeat is now President.
Comment by GayPatriotWest — January 20, 2009 @ 12:44 pm - January 20, 2009
Obama’s speech was patterned to reflect these words:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Bill Clinton was one of the better President’s we have had but he did not have the eloquence or the fire of Obama.
What is truly sad is the extent that this country has been damaged by the opposition party (i.e., the party of the person that ran against Obama). And that it has taken this long for a leader of real first-class caliber to emerge. I have never seen a President exhibit the caliber I see in Obama in my more than half Century. That is what is truly sad. And the inarticulate two-faced gibberish that has been passed off as leadership for the past eight years speaks for itself.
If you honestly believe that what we have had is equal to our ideals or our history, then you deserve exactly what you got — Wall Street collapse, unprecedented unemployment, global alienation, and a dismally failed war on “terrorism”, not to mention the trillion dollar deficit. When Clinton left office, the budget was balanced.
We are better than the hogwash that has been handed to us by the Republicans for the past 20 years (considering who has controlled Congress most of that time).
For the first time in my lifetime, I perceive that we have a genuine leader capable of rising to that of Roosevelt or Churchill.
The dream and promise of America has been restored.
If you do not realize how that was taken away over the past two decades and comprehend the truly devastating damage that has been done, perhaps it is time you look inward and reflect on your own responsibility.
Today is a truly great day in America. And I predict that history will in fact record it as so.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 20, 2009 @ 1:02 pm - January 20, 2009
The policies, failed leadership, and actions of the opposition have left me quite ashamed of America. I cannot believe you can honestly believe the opposition has provided anything that even approximates real leadership equal to our history and our values. What he have had is so pathetic as to not even a merit a laugh. May I suggest a greater degree of introspection and of looking inwardly at what has been real and less red, white, and blue flag-waving. We have not even begun to live up to our promise and we have accepted second-class pablum as “leadership”.
Obama’s address was patterned to reflect and echo Abraham Lincolns words:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
My prediction is that Obama’s address will be remembered for its eloquence in history.
BTW, I am an independent, not a partisan. I am an independent and relatively to conservative gay white male who sees a bona fide leader emerging here — the first leader of this caliber that I have ever seen in my lifetime.
Certainly the eloquence of this speech beats anything Bush has ever uttered — and he is distinguished for his ability to speak the English language. For example:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005.
We should all bow our heads in prayer that at least we finally have a leader who can speak the English language.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 20, 2009 @ 1:28 pm - January 20, 2009
@Tom Boone,
Like GPW, I was proud to be American when Slick Willie was in the office, I was proud when W was in there and will remain proud during the O administration. My pride is larger than the occupant of the White House.
I hope that Obama is able to transcend his small minded supporters and emerge as a leader who can do things that are good for everyone in the country both now and for the future.
Bush had a style that didn’t appeal to you – I get it – but you have to accept and understand that a glib presentation and focused group analyzed speches don’t necessarily make for a great politician or help to forward the country.
Enjoy the day!
Comment by SoCal — January 20, 2009 @ 1:36 pm - January 20, 2009
I have not been able to hear the speech yet, though I taped it. Most certainly it is eloquent. However, pretty words do not a leader make. Obama is untested and we will have to wait and see how he succeeds for fails.
Bush faced difficult decisions when we were under attack while the recession he inherited from Clinton worsened. He did what he thought was best for our country, in spite of the press and Democrats who attempted to sabotage him at every turn.
I thought invading Iraq, was a bad decision, but we now face an incipient democracy. Now that we have defeated the bad guys, we are leaving. No terrorists have attacked our homeland since 9/11. Bush also used his pulpit to pursuade Americans not to direct their anger toward domestic Muslems. Bush has spent more of our money on AIDS and other relief than any other chief exectutive
in our history. These actions reflect the American values I was raised to believe in.
We don’t know how future historians will judge Bush, but I was proud of our country when he was president, and I still am.
Comment by James — January 20, 2009 @ 1:54 pm - January 20, 2009
Tom,
Do you like read history? It wasn’t a bad speech but it sure the hell wasn’t that different than the standard one.
As to speaking English, well, it is nice to know you’re a cultural bigot. English varies dramatically across this country and not all of us choose to sound like a Midwestern or New Englander.
Comment by Kevin — January 20, 2009 @ 1:55 pm - January 20, 2009
T bone, ask the million dissappointed folks leaving the speech how motivated they were. They were bored and just …..wandered away. They wanted Chavez populism. Take the property from the landlord and give it to the serfs. They didn’t get it. They just wandered away……while Barack and Michelle will go on to the million dollar balls, the most expensive oppulent inagural in the history of man. All while we are at war and in a severe depression. How sad.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 1:57 pm - January 20, 2009
Imagine how many hungry children and war vets the $180 million inagural would have fed. Change, not hardly.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 1:58 pm - January 20, 2009
Actually, Tom, what demonstrates that you are little more than a partisan is this: Obama has done absolutely nothing, zip, zero, zilch, no policies, no legislation, no nothing — and you are instantly proud of America again.
You don’t support Obama. You simply hate Bush irrationally.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 20, 2009 @ 1:58 pm - January 20, 2009
“The policies, failed leadership, and actions of the opposition have left me quite ashamed of America.”
Folks, can’t you see that Tom Boone is talking aobut the DEMOCRATS? Only THEY consider themselves “the opposition”…
Comment by DaveP. — January 20, 2009 @ 2:13 pm - January 20, 2009
T. Boone did you mean to say that….we should all bow our heads in prayer that at least we finally have a leader who can READ the English language from a teleprompter…?
From what I have noticed Obama does read well but speaking off the cuff is not his forte.
Comment by Not Always Right — January 20, 2009 @ 2:15 pm - January 20, 2009
“BTW, I am an independent, not a partisan. I am an independent and relatively to conservative gay white male…”
I call shenanigans on that, Mr. Boone.
Also bad grammar.
Comment by Draybee — January 20, 2009 @ 2:27 pm - January 20, 2009
General, as it should have been, but too obviously vague and earnest and thus trite. So far, much like his campaign: Don’t give them anything to pin down and you’ll never be picked apart.
Opposing Clinton was easy compared to fighting emotions and symbols. Chimera is difficult to grasp and it slips through one’s fingers, especially when there’s the bludgeon of “Racism!” at the end of every argument.
Comment by Ignatius — January 20, 2009 @ 3:02 pm - January 20, 2009
Not only did the inaugural address land with a THUD, the estimated 5-6 million people attending also fell far short. The most optimistic estimate after the fact now stands at 2 million. Now the latest word that some of the inaugural balls and parties are being canceled because of lack of interest. Too much hype? Is reality setting in? Not sure. I continue to hope and pray that Pres Obama start this afternoon and start to make things better. The stock market dropped 350 points after his speech. I hope and pray that isn’t a precursor to what he has in store for us. I know he can do better than that. I will be watching the stock market closely tomorrow for some change and improvement. It will be after all his first FULL day on the job. I want to be fair.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 4:13 pm - January 20, 2009
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/01/20/wapo-notes-obama-balls-gone-flat-previously-noted-same-inaugural-renta
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 4:17 pm - January 20, 2009
CNBC is now reporting the worst DROP of the DOW on inauguration day in history. Change. Not off to much of a good start. Let’s hope he gets it together tomorrow. hehe
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 5:02 pm - January 20, 2009
Wow. Just wow. Isn’t Tom just about the most creepy little thing you’ve seen in a long time?
Comment by Paul A'Barge — January 20, 2009 @ 5:26 pm - January 20, 2009
These are the 35 words my President didn’t bother to learn:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pioaths.html
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 5:42 pm - January 20, 2009
Heck, it took Bill Cliton 5 months or more before he could bring himself to say anything but “Massatushitts”, teleprompter, Oxford or otherwise.
I would say that to spend $150 million is definately a change. Yes, sir, a big change indeed.
I guess he is learning not to promise anything now. The realities of the world came crashing down when he started meeting with President Bush.
At a local private high school, faculty and students were made to attend a viewing of the speech. One teacher there, a person who had been a political prisoner under a foreign dictatorship, refused to go, citing Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, ad nauseam. It does seem like the masses expected a speech like the dictators of those countries present, but maybe, just maybe, B. Hussein O’B. has learned a little.
Yes, I pray that I can be a fervent supporter in 4 years.
I DOUBT IT!
Comment by El Cid — January 20, 2009 @ 5:47 pm - January 20, 2009
The responses here speak for themselves.
The truth is that you all need for this man to succeed.
The country simply cannot afford to fail.
And he won.
Too bad. Enough nonsense from cry babies.
Get over it.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 20, 2009 @ 6:02 pm - January 20, 2009
T.Boone it is almost as if you are telling us that we are not allowed to express criticism or even mild doubts about Obama.
I prefer to think that we need our country to succeed and I see no harm in being honset in expressing that some of Obama’s “hope and chage” might not be all they are cracked up to be and are not necessarily portents of success.
And as for the “he won…get over it”, was that your attitude in 2000 and 2004?
Comment by Not Always Right — January 20, 2009 @ 6:27 pm - January 20, 2009
T bone, I’m starting to like the role of being a critic. Especially if my new President is paper thin and short on experience and judgement. I’d like my country to prosper, yes, but I for one am not sitting around waiting for my government or my President to do anything for me. I was brought up to be self sufficient and not have to beg for anything. You give that power to others and within a short time you will be sorry.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 20, 2009 @ 6:37 pm - January 20, 2009
I tried to post this once before..I will try again
Well, I do know that Chief Justice Roberts bumbled the oath, which is why Obama stopped and looked at CJ Roberts, who then corrected himself. Beyond that I am beginning to strongly believe that Nobama is a one speech wonder and that occurred in 2004 at the DNC Convention, where he used glossy prose and catchy one liners.
What scared me about Nobama’s speech is that I felt I was in the middle of a Marxist speech and certainly not an American President’s Inaugural speech…Nobama summoned us to return to our Founding Documents…but then spoke in Marxist speech of the “collective we” and “government to fix our problems, etc”
His words numbed me into major we are screwed….and dare I say the leftist Marxist brown shirts…and Nobama’s movement is definitely that, leaves me to believe that “Dorothy, we aren’t in the United States any more” and the Wizard of Nobama is really going to sink what is left (definite pun intended) of freedom and capitalism.
I might add that W and his miserable excuse of a Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, began us down this road and handed the keys over to the Marxist in Chief and left Dodge for the rest of us to fend for ourselves.
I do believe that the Bushes were a class act during the transition period and today.
I do have many issues with Bush but I do know he left us without another attack on our country since 9/11 and that with what he done with such things as AIDS, aid to Africa and his soft core of use of military and Peace Corps like activities in Africa will be a great legacy to him.
Plus, the surge in Iraq turned the tide and I leave the rest to history. My issues with Bush were he was a GOP LBJ and screwed up the economy and instead of spending less and paying for programs he proposed (Medicaid prescription drug program) and expansion of military without paying for that either (and it was needed after the mess Billy Clinton left the military) and run away spending and most spending since LBJ leaves me to believe that he was not a Reagan/Goldwater Republican but an LBJ Republican….
Nobama is our President. I said a prayer for him and his family and for our country. However, we as citizens must speak out and speak power to truth as Hillary Rodham Clinton stated.
I am scared that the Congressional GOP will roll over and play dead and they have so far with the likes of tax cheater Tim Geitner and so far with the TARP and we shall see with the future over spending.
The cure for all of this to reform the mortgage industry to go back to regulations for FNMA and Freddie Mac (when they had regulations based upon common sense) and tell banks to unfreeze credit, if we have to remove the troubled assets from their books, but tell them they must lend to small businesses, homeowners that need to refinance their loans (but no hand outs so if you are foreclosed due it in a staggered manner so as to not screw up the real estate market worse then it is), and let the free market be unleashed and go back to common sense regulations of Wall Street.
How about instead of bail outs, we let capitalism do its job and it does it well and cut tax rates for all of us and for businesses, eliminate capital gains, encourage small business loans, cut spending, etc…
if we spend federal dollars, how about rebuild the energy grids, highways, schools, encourage off shore drilling, drilling everywhere we can, and the all of the above approach of nuclear energy, wind,solar, clean coal, natural gas and so on
What I see coming is pork, pork and more pork and government screwing up our daily lives…..where is Ronald Reagan when we need him….government needs to get out of the way and Nobama will keep bankrupting us so that we will be the newest Marxist country…while China is becoming the newest capitalist country.
so much for going back to the foundations of our Founding Fathers and Founding Documents and unleashing freedom.
Comment by Rocket — January 20, 2009 @ 7:44 pm - January 20, 2009
The truth is that you all need for this man to succeed.
Actually, “Tom Boone”, America is much greater than one man, and her success is based on far more than that. America was here and was wonderful long before Obama, and it’s resilient; we may have hard years ahead unraveling the damage that Obama will do, but the country’s fundamentals are strong.
You once again demonstrate then cultlike devotion of the Obamunists; our entire country’s value to you depends on Barack Obama, and if he fails, our entire country is a failure in your eyes. Nothing good happened before Obama, and nothing bad will happen during Obama. That is your existence.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 20, 2009 @ 8:59 pm - January 20, 2009
O’Bummer. Wow this was not an Inaugural Address but a stomp speech. Hope has left us. JFK and MLK stood in front of a similar crowd eager to believe. What we got was “small change”
Gregorie
Comment by Grigor2000 — January 21, 2009 @ 1:14 am - January 21, 2009
Okay, lets just correct the record, Obama interrupted Justice Roberts before he could finish the first phrase. That’s where things got screwed up. Here’s a more intelligent president doing it the way its supposed to be done.
Comment by American Elephant — January 21, 2009 @ 4:26 am - January 21, 2009
It is apparent to me that most of the people reading what I write here are simply not listening to Obama. He is not a leftist. His speech did not echo Marx or Che or anything of the kind. You are free to express whatever opinion you have (and I will defend your First Amendment right). However, to simply express knee jerk reactions which do mis-characterize me and what I said — and Obama and what he said — is out of bounds.
My family on three sides has been in this country since before the Revolution. I am a direct descendant of Daniel Boone’s brother, George Ovid, and of a cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s mother). My forebears and family have fought for liberty and freedom in every war this country has been engaged in – including the Civil War. If you want to wave the red, white, and blue, I am every bit as entitled as anyone else in this country to do so.
I did not vote George W. Bush. He was not on the ballot. I did vote against the abysmal failed polices enacted by the Republican party — who have, in fact, had control of both houses of Congress for most of the past two decades — and against the absolutely mediocre, unimaginative, self-centered nonsense they have passed off as “leadership”. I am excited about Obama because he can at least make a speech and while he may be reading from a teleprompter, the truth is that he writes and has written the better part of all of his speeches. And that he can speak the English language quite eloquently. And while English may be spoken differently in different parts of the world, my bet is that this statement reads the same across the entire Anglophile world: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004″
Oh, and Obama did not win a small margin of some few hundred thousand voters in area of Canton, Ohio by running for God, for guns, and against gays. (For that matter, Al Gore did win in 2000. But let’s not get into that.) How any self-respecting gay person could vote for a candidate who made homophobia a trump card is utterly beyond my comprehension. But hey – if you are satisfied with candidates who stoop to measures like that —
The truth is that whether we like this new President or not (and I happen to find him very substantive and a very welcome change, but perhaps that is because I am willing to open my ears and hear what he has to say) — whether we like this new President or not, we all do very much need for him to succeed. Global security and our economic survival both hinge on good leadership. No President can do it all himself; the role of the President is to provide that “vision thing”, to inspire people, to forge a general common unified direction, in short to lead. How can a President lead if he cannot even give a coherent speech? (The list of George W.’s collisions with the English language is in the thousands.) But not only did George W. let down the American people, the Republican party sold us too. Supposedly the Republican party stands for smaller government and balanced budgets. When Clinton left office, the national debt was paid down; today government is larger than it has ever been and we are looking at a $1 trillion national debt. A failed war on terrorism, a world so completely alienated from us by cowboy diplomacy that repairs are going to take decades, collapsing Wall Street, collapsing banks, collapsing auto industry, unprecedented unemployment rates, shrinking middle class, a growing and unbelievable disparity between the haves and have-nots, the suspension of habeas corpus, the data mining techniques being employed rightly or wrongly by the NSA in direct contradiction of inalienable rights in the Constitution, Guantanamo, Abu Gharaib, the enormous problems both physical and psychological returning Armed Forces are going to have after we withdraw from a war that was a appalling blunder (unless you still happen to believe we are going to find those WMD we were wrongly assured were definitely there), see-saw oil prices and oil dependency issues, and Global Warming.
Regardless of where you stand on all of this, this is the time to stop bitching and whining and to take the President up on his call. Now is the time for us to start asking what we can do for America. Now is the time for all of us whether in big ways or small to get involved and to do everything we can to make a positive contribution towards solving these problems.
We can argue about this forever. But that is not going to solve the problems.
Go ahead and make mock me and what I have to say. (Like I said, I will defend your First Amendment right to express your opinion regardless of how imbecilic I think it is). Then look in the mirror. As we used to say back in the 60s, you are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
We all need Barack to succeed because we all need to succeed. Like it or not, we are all in this boat together.
Enough. No go right ahead and misconstrue and deliberately not hear everything I have had to say and characterize me as something I am not. I really do not care. Because the record here reads for itself and ideas, especially true ideas, cannot be stopped.
The new President has called to all of us to join the remaking of America. I urge all of you to do your part. All perspectives and all hands are needed at this critical time. We do not have time to waste. We have to get to work.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 21, 2009 @ 7:39 am - January 21, 2009
Oh and in case anyone doesn’t recognize it the quote about our enemies being resourceful is directly from George W. Bush.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 21, 2009 @ 7:50 am - January 21, 2009
At least Barack Obama can pronounce “nuclear” correctly. And I’m pretty sure he won’t have a problem wtih subject-verb agreement.
You’re right, North Dallas Thirty, that America is greater than any one man (or woman). HOWEVER, we need Barack Obama’s leadership of the 300-plus million people in this nation to succeed. He will steer the ship and set the course, and we will do all the other little things it takes to keep the ship running, if you’ll excuse the metaphor.
Comment by Breeder Chick for Gay Rights — January 21, 2009 @ 9:11 am - January 21, 2009
T Bone, President Bush called on all Americans to join the fight against Islamo fascist terrorists who were killing Americans. You libs told him to screw off. Obama can fix this stuff by himself, I’m gonna wait at home for the postman like most Democrats do. And we better not get attacked on Obamas watch.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 21, 2009 @ 12:48 pm - January 21, 2009
Tom Boone, it’s no surprise you support Obama so much; you’re just like he is. All blather, all using your “family background” instead of your own accomplishments, all blaming everyone else, and all about attacking Bush.
Furthermore, as far as “self-respecting”, what we know is that leftist gays like yourself fully endorse and support what you scream is “homophobia” when it comes from the “correct” party. You’re really nothing more than a hypocrite.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 21, 2009 @ 1:05 pm - January 21, 2009
And as far as your call to serve, Tom Boone, I have been serving this country for years while liberal parasites like yourself sat on your asses and threw temper tantrums about George Bush, faked documents to try to discredit him, namecalled and threw hate at our troops, and cheated on your taxes.
One thing about conservatives that liberals like yourself will never understand is that this country, regardless of who is in charge of it, is our country, and we are proud of it and serve it regardless. You and your fellow adherents to the Obama cult of personality hate and despise this country unless your messiahs are in charge of it. Your whining about our need to serve is disgusting because you and your fellow pig liberals wouldn’t do a damn thing of the sort for the past eight years.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — January 21, 2009 @ 1:10 pm - January 21, 2009
#28 think they have told Barack yet that there are only 50 states instead of the 57 he thought we had? dumb dumb hehe
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 21, 2009 @ 2:21 pm - January 21, 2009
Give it about a week, maybe two, then ask your favorite lib if they remember anything Obama said. It was basically a stump speech, and not even one of his better ones. A very divisive speech, a racist prayer, and a mindnumbingly ridiculous poem.
Can we please do away with the inaugural poems altogether?
Comment by American Elephant — January 21, 2009 @ 8:03 pm - January 21, 2009
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The comments responsive to my comments again speak for themselves. I am not a liberal. I am a fiscal and defense conservative. I am progressive on social issues. I have spent my life serving my country which is my personal business. I am willing to bet that I am much closer to national security than any of you. But all of that is neither here nor there. But I am not the issue here. As someone pointed out, real progress requires many people working together — and things have been let go to such a state of crisis that it is going to take every single one of us to do our part. Find something constructive you can do to help and stick to it. We cannot afford to be writing off anyone — I don’t know how we got a $1 trillion deficit with conservative Republicans at the helm. I know I certainly didn’t spend it. How long do you think it is going to take to pay that down? How much is that per every single American taxpayer? What to heck is wrong with “conservatives” when they are not demanding fiscal accountability? And a government that tells the truth? And leadership that can at least speak the English language? What can you do help at this time of national crisis? I think the answer is pretty clear cut.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 22, 2009 @ 3:55 am - January 22, 2009
Conservatives have been demanding fiscal accountability. A large number of Republicans in congress have not. And President Bush did not do so forcefully enough. Hopefully they have learned their lesson and will start demanding it now that Obama and the Democrats are doubling and quadrupling down on that irresponsibility
the government has told the truth up until 2006, at least the majority did. I wish conservatives would do more to point out how dishonest it has been in the past two years.
Uh, you, uh, mean, uh, like, uh, Barack, uh, Obama? Or maybe, like, you know, you like, you know, mean the, like, Kennedy’s, you know?
I agree! Work to block everything Obama and the Democrats are proposing, and if that doesn’t work, challenge its constitutionality in court! And then defeat them in 2010.
Save America! Defeat Democrats!
Comment by American Elephant — January 22, 2009 @ 7:16 am - January 22, 2009
As to Tom Boone’s comment that we all need Nobama to succeed…to paraphrase Bill Clnton what is your definition of success? As Rush Limbaugh said, I don’t want him to succeed if he plans on obliterating capitalism and liberty and freedom as we know it and creates a socialist/Marxist society, which his plans surely will do.
So, no I don’t want Nobama to succeed since his plans for this country will obliterate capitalism, end freedom, individual choice and make us all robot soldiers/wards of the state……The Chosen One/Marxist in Chief is well on his way to making sure we look like and are the former Soviet Union and Red China as they are emulating the capitalism of what used to be the United States of America.
If Nobama realizes he is the President of the United States of America (maybe he will need to keep practicing the oath of office for President of the United States of America and the Constitution he has sworn to uphold and defend, then maybe he will get a clue and buy a vowel and know we are a capitalist country..not the Marxist/Socialist one he is creating….while he leads our country as the lambs to slaughter led by the MSM deep long into the end of the country as we know it)
Comment by Rocket — January 22, 2009 @ 2:08 pm - January 22, 2009
The notion that Obama is in any way a Marxist is so completely off-base and out of touch with the record, facts, and the ongoing news as to be completely laughable. There is absolutely nothing in his platform or his record to support such hogwash. (Some people believe that if you repeat something long enough and often enough it, the propaganda will become true — true propaganda.) However, Rocket, if you wanted to entrepreneur a citizen group or a network of citizen groups to foster free market capitalism and small business and get out their on the street to actively effect some of the truly needed social and structural problems that are endemic in our society right now, I would be the first to champion you. The call for participation and action was not “Tom Boone’s call” — anyone who listened to the speech knows it was Obama’s call and he is making this call to all Americans.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 22, 2009 @ 4:31 pm - January 22, 2009
Pardon me .. that should have read “actively affect” —
it seems we all have problems with the English language.
Comment by Tom Boone — January 22, 2009 @ 4:32 pm - January 22, 2009
This is not so much BHO policies as it is that we have a one party system in D.C. right now. No checks or balances. One of the first bills is going to be SCHIP expansion. It is not so much that conservatives are against programs that help those in need, but the Democrats practice of using programs to garner votes. SCHIP was found to have such bad oversight, wasn’t it in Ohio or Penn. that a family was found to be on the program and they were making over 150k a year. I believe Malkin broke the story and she was called every nasty name in the book for doing it. Democrats are just like roaches, when the lights are turned on, they run and hide. And, as posters want to blame all of America’s problems on repubs, it seems to me that things did not get really bad until 2 years ago. Remember what happened 2 years ago…Nancy Pelosi became the 2nd most powerful person in D.C. and we were going to get that ethical Congress, you know Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid…
The only interesting thing is going to be the escalating fight between Pelosi and Obama. Pelosi is really throwing her weight around and Obama seems tired of it already. I read a post on another blog suggesting that Pelosi thinks Obama owes her after she had the DNC spend so much money to defer the birth certificate lawsuit. Pelosi seems to be a hotheaded, unprofessional goofball. I plan to have the popcorn ready for when she snaps and lets her secrets on Obama rip to the media…oooh the fun!!
Comment by BCnSanDeeahgo — January 23, 2009 @ 7:41 am - January 23, 2009
Tom…glad to see you think Nobama is a capitalist…..which to me means your definition of capitalist is at the very least socialist….Nobama is not now, nor has he ever been a capitalist….try reading his own autobiography and his mention of his mentor (Frank D) whom he wouldn’t list his last name, who was a Marxist and read Nobama’s viewpoints…if you call that capitalist..then what facts are you deluding yourself with…good to see you believe the Nobama Brown shirts and Marxist propoganda machine..
I am a capitalist, self employed and proud of being a free market capitalist…since when in America do those of us who believe in freedom, capitalism and free enterprise now have to doubly rejoin with other free market capitalists…I believe America is about the individual and freedom….and individual free choice.
but its always nice to read the delusions of Nobamaniacs…and to know what we will have to stand up against…January 20, 2009……the day the USA began its journey to be the new USSR….keep up the good work Comrade Boone….your Chosen One will be proud of your comments!
Comment by Rocket — January 23, 2009 @ 1:34 pm - January 23, 2009
P.S. The notion that FDR was a Marxist is also so off the wall as to be utterly laughable. Where on earth did you go to school and where do you come up with this poppycock?
Comment by Tom Boone — January 24, 2009 @ 5:45 am - January 24, 2009
Well, BCN, for the first six years of Bush II, we had the Republicans in control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency. We know how well that worked out, don’t we. Bush II inherited a surplus and left us with a huge deficit.
And only someone with a heart of ice can be against ensuring children have health insurance. I’d rather their parents had it as well, but you can’t have everything.
Comment by Breeder Chick for Gay Rights — January 26, 2009 @ 10:21 am - January 26, 2009