My Thoughts on the President’s Speech
I didn’t watch it as I had an even to run for my college alumni association’s entertainment group (which I head).  And anyway, if I everyone watched these things, what purpose would live-blogging serve?
So, thanks to Ann and Steve, I think I got the gist of the specch.
And at 8:34 Central Time, Ann wondered, “Whatever happened to all the hope? This is leaden and lecture-y.”
Three minutes later at 7:37PM Mountain Time, Steve opined, “It’s rich that a guy who just added a trillion dollars to the deficit is complaining about a trillion dollar deficit.”
So, I guess the president spoke fast, wasn’t very inspiring and talked out of both sides of his mouth. Such is my summary of the posts of the best live blogress and best live blogger in the business.
Thanks to them, I could get the gist of the speech while enjoying an evening with a crowd of Obama-loving individuals trying to make their way in the entertainment industry. I wonder if it means anything that they choose to attend this event rather than watch the speech. . . .
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He said that we would start seeing the tax cut in our paychecks. It was my understanding that this would be a temporary (about 6 months) economic stimulus and not a tax cut.
“I can finally afford to buy that lake house and I’ll run around naked all day. HAHA!!! Dangly parts.”
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Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 25, 2009 @ 5:55 am - February 25, 2009
Hope and Change = I hope we at least have change left in 2012.
Comment by Attmay — February 25, 2009 @ 6:14 am - February 25, 2009
here’s a novel idea: why don’t you actually watch the speech (or at least read the transcript) before giving us your thoughts on the speech.
Comment by bob (aka boob) — February 25, 2009 @ 6:37 am - February 25, 2009
Why Bob. If it’s good enough for Chris Matthews… http://snipr.com/cla52
Comment by The Livewire — February 25, 2009 @ 6:53 am - February 25, 2009
um, limewire, too bad matthews was talking about the event of the speech during a time of turmoil, not the content of the speech itself.
Comment by bob (aka boob) — February 25, 2009 @ 7:20 am - February 25, 2009
Um, bob (aka boob), he quoted a line from the speech that hadn’t occurred yet. Here’s a novel idea: get your facts straight.
Comment by Ted — February 25, 2009 @ 7:31 am - February 25, 2009
Um, Bob, you’re saying that President Obama could go up there and pull a Ron Burgendy and you’d still call it Churchwellian, because of the time?
Gods above and below, what a tool?
Comment by The Livewire — February 25, 2009 @ 10:13 am - February 25, 2009
Filtered, and bob, it’s The Livewire. I know not who this limewire is, must be my British counterpart.
Comment by The Livewire — February 25, 2009 @ 10:15 am - February 25, 2009
This might rank as the most useless blog post I have ever read.
Comment by jagorev — February 25, 2009 @ 10:48 am - February 25, 2009
#7 – And it matches your usual clueless comments, kiddo.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 25, 2009 @ 11:00 am - February 25, 2009
#3 – “here’s a novel idea: why don’t you actually watch the speech (or at least read the transcript) before giving us your thoughts on the speech.”
Here’s a novel idea, boob – why not be fair and condemn Jennifer Loven of the AP for writing a review of the speech before it even happened?
In case you are wondering, here it is:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/02/25/aps-loven-describes-obama-speech-5-1-2-hours-it-began
Checkmate.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 25, 2009 @ 11:02 am - February 25, 2009
Same old rhetoric…..It is on his watch now. Let’s see something happen for everyone. HOPE AND CHANGE AND TRANSPARENCY!!!
What I enjoyed was watching the two boobs behind him – the dumbest VP ever and plastic woman.
I will not be receiving any “benefits” at all. And I do not want to pay for other people who never should have owned a home in the first place to be able to keep the home.
I worked hard to attain what I have and do not want to share.
Comment by PatriotMom — February 25, 2009 @ 11:51 am - February 25, 2009
Correction, PatriotMom. It’s not that you don’t want to share; it’s that you don’t want the money taken from you at gunpoint and spent on people who are openly contemptuous of you for working and saving and who have no intention of doing either themselves.
I’m sure that you share with plenty of people in your life. You just haven’t outsourced your responsibility to the government and left them to bungle it, as has the liberal left.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 25, 2009 @ 12:40 pm - February 25, 2009
It was my understanding that this would be a temporary (about 6 months) economic stimulus and not a tax cut.
Let me recommned that in the future, you gather facts before forming an opinion. You don’t get get tripped up so much that way.
Comment by PeeJ — February 25, 2009 @ 2:53 pm - February 25, 2009
#14 – “Let me recommned that in the future, you gather facts before forming an opinion.”
Practice what you preach, kiddo.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 25, 2009 @ 2:55 pm - February 25, 2009
i stand by my comment. you should listen to/read the speech before commenting on it. and yes, that goes for whatever random person online from the left that you found violating that notion as well. that doesn’t change the fact that GPW should actually read the transcript before trying to give his opinion on it. this post lowers his (already low) credibility.
Comment by bob (aka boob) — February 25, 2009 @ 6:19 pm - February 25, 2009
and btw, there are lots of theories out there regarding the evolutionary purpose of homosexuality. i’m not endorsing one in particular, but here’s an example, the “uncle theory” :
“The so-called “gay uncle” theory posits that people who themselves do not have children may nonetheless increase the prevalence of their family’s genes in future generations by providing resources (food, supervision, defense, shelter, etc.) to the offspring of their closest relatives. This hypothesis is an extension of the theory of kin selection. Kin selection was originally developed to explain apparent altruistic acts which seemed to be maladaptive. The initial concept was suggested by J.B.S. Haldane in 1932 and later elaborated by many others including John Maynard Smith and West Eberhard.[46] This concept was also used to explain the patterns of certain social insects where most of the members are non-reproductive.”
Comment by bob (aka boob) — February 25, 2009 @ 6:38 pm - February 25, 2009