Barack Obama in his Inauguration Speech:
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.Invoking a movie tune from 1936 is a fitting segue into the retread New Deal that surely awaits us:
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done.I liked it better when Fred and Ginger sang itThe state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth.
We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.
Uh, what's happening CC?
They still call it the White House
But that's a temporary condition, too.
Can you dig it, CC?
"Change is coming to Amerika!" - Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by: Reality on January 20, 2009 04:25 PMGenerate the largest deficits in history AND shrink the economy.
Keep parroting the failed economic policies of Hoover and Bush.
Pretend that the "free market" exists and pretend it didn't cause the huge banking crisis that is killing the economy.
When all else fails, use the usual republican strategy. Blame the democrats and fail to accept reponsibility for the republican failures.
Posted by: correctnotright on January 20, 2009 06:12 PMMy point in relating my sister's story is I have no desire to see America return to the racially devisive policies (e.g., Affirmative Action) of its past. This is 2009, not 1956, and Jim Crow is long dead. Let's leave him in the grave where he belongs.
Posted by: Saltherring on January 20, 2009 06:34 PMI suspect far too many others can as well.
Oh well. The choices are gripe or get up.
I'm already standing.
Cute, but our "bad hair day" will last just that: one day. Yours lasted for eight years...and it's going to last for at least another four years once you finally realize Your Personal Savior has not only already thrown you under his bus but also backed it over you several times.
Don't believe me? Take a look at his cabinet picks and then tell me what part of "Same S***, Different Administration" you don't understand.
Capisce, paisan?
Posted by: MarkJ on January 20, 2009 07:43 PM"...and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around -- (laughter) -- when yellow will be mellow -- (laughter) -- when the red man can get ahead, man -- (laughter) -- and when white will embrace what is right.~ Rev. Joseph E. Lowerey"
For all the empty rhetoric of racial unity espoused by Obama, it's clear his personal associations are certainly still rooted deep within the distant past or as I prefer to call them, "professional victims". Afterall, stoking the flames of racial hatred by the likes of Lowerey, Jackson, Sharpton, Wright, Pfleger, et al ensures their job security.
Posted by: Rick D. on January 20, 2009 07:49 PMYou just don't get it, do you?
I don't hate Bush- I pity him and his deluded (20% wingnut) supporters. I thank god that incompetent screw-up is no longer President.
Even an objective look at the Bush record (putting aside all of the corruption and incompetence) shows that he has been the worst President since Hoover and quite possibly the worst in history.
Economy:
Worst job record, worst stock market performance, worst GDP since Hoover (and many other indicators).
Budget:
Biggest budget deficit in history. Took a budget surplus and turned it into massive debt.
foreign policy:
Spent 1 trillion on the unnecessary war in Iraq. Alienated many of our close allies. The worst public opinion of the US president ever in other countries (only second to Nixon after he resigned here).
Failed to stop a terrorist attack on US soil.
Failed to get the perpetrators (bin Laden)
Got the wrong guy instead (Saddam).
Abu Ghraib
Supported torture and embarassed our own military.
Posted by: correctnotright on January 20, 2009 08:46 PMThe Bush administration deserves a sizable portion of the blame...
Yet the delusional as personified by the likes of duffman and correctnotright refuse or are incapable of understanding how the party of the Seditious & Sleazy had the major part in the present economic turndown...
These parasitic fools insisted that there was no problem with government intrusion into the housing market...
The Bush Administration had been warning Congress since 2001...
So let's thank the party of the Seditious & Sleazy for pandering to the unproductive of society...
Is everyone happy that the Peggy Joseph types have gone out and elected a pinko, parasite to defile the Oval Office...
When the pinko parasite says the following in his inaugural speech: The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous is it any wonder that the tanks?
Posted by: juandos on January 21, 2009 04:06 AMSpewing to the wrong fellow there dude...fyi: I am not a liberal progressive Democrat, I am not a Republican...I'm as 'independent' as one can get.
I voted for Dino Rossi for Gov and I 'wrote-in' Mrs Clinton for POTUS. I do NOT claim any allegiance to a fricken political party. I will give POTUS Obama the 'benefit of the doubt' till he causes me (by his ACTIONS or INACTIONS) to do otherwise. Simple as that. All the EXPERTS herein who portend to know what he will do BEFORE he does it - are apparently clairvoyant political hacks who have blinders on and are NOT very open-minded. :)
I still don't get it. (Clinton) for Prez?
Why... Her & Bill had nothing but 8 years of problems. She has a real problem with lying, travel gate and other midnight maddnest. The only thing she can really stand on, was her healthcare that went NO-where. (Thank God)
PS. It's just a mear 2 years before the next elections. Let's see if the dem's can hang on to there seats.
So as a so called IND. What would make you think she was so ready for the job.
Many good doc's, but these people work with a system that is 'pure' government BS.
And duffie. Look how her and billy ran the school system in ARK -e -saw. That a double No way!
You been drinking again? (-:
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 21, 2009 07:09 AMThere were a lot of historical lines references in the speech and historical imagery. I will agree with you there. In general, though, don't all Inaugural addresses contain some of this, other than Washington's first, of course.
I did like his use of Washington's line from Valley Forge and transitioning it to today, especially given the DC weather for the event.
Posted by: tc on January 21, 2009 07:28 AMSo I ask two questions.
(1) Do we even know what they make to begin with?
(2) How many new jobs do you come into with a pay raise?
Obama didn't waste time with the BS words already!
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 21, 2009 12:01 PM
And yet, here you are.
Connect the dots, dude.
Your fear is palpable. Why?
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on January 21, 2009 01:04 PMThat can mean one of two things: either you are simply a vile, small minded, vicious, hate filled SOB ... or you are afraid.
Pray tell: which his it?
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on January 21, 2009 01:14 PMYou know, it's going to be funny for us too.
See you forget, in just a mear two years well have elections again. Nancy P & Harry could lose control.
I say that, knowing these two fools have been a laughing stock since they took over in 2006. By they way, what have the done since then???? nada!
So your Obama may have just a 4 short years.
Obama has a Lincoln fetish. Obama knows that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free any slaves, because the proclamation only applied to the states in rebellion, where the proclamation had no authority, and did not emancipate any slaves in the "loyal" states, where it could have had authority.
Forgoing pay raises for incoming staff who do not have raises due is Obama's homage to Abe.
