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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (57567)	7/3/2009 6:47:56 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I hope Palin stays in politics as the right wing will defend her to the end, without knowing Jack about her, except that she thinks like they do. That will keep people aware of just how crazy the right wing policies are. I just saw Ron Christy defending her. Cheney's main man-lol. Between the right wing vilifying Sotomayor and losing the Hispanic vote, and Palin really magnifying exactly what frauds the right wingers are, the dems might control the government for the next 40 years. Hopefully.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (57567)	7/4/2009 3:27:26 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

Chinu, I note that Geoff Altman has been banned. I hope that was not in response to his comment to me. That comment was no more insulting of me than some made by others here, and some one who claim of a liberal Obama-supporter bent. I am quite used to insults and found Geoff's to be of the lower level of insult. If it was for accumulated wrongs, so be it, but please don't do it for the comment directed at me.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (57567)	7/4/2009 7:12:42 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

Obama uses holiday to slap down "naysayers" by SusanG Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 07:30:12 AM PDT If ever there were a holiday that seems expressly designed to display the gift with language possessed by the current President of the United States, Fourth of July would be it. And with this morning's weekly address, Barack Obama took full advantage of the opportunity presented, not just saluting America's peaks and victories, but reminding its citizens of the dark times and despair as well that the nation has overcome with what he called our "indomitable spirit." And in passages that echoed his campaign observations about the "unlikely story that is America," he reminded us of how this country, in many ways, a surprising anomaly in history: We are called to remember how unlikely it was that our American experiment would succeed at all; that a small band of patriots would declare independence from a powerful empire; and that they would form, in the new world, what the old world had never known – a government of, by, and for the people. He saluted the spirit of America, the will and collaboration that helped us as a country survive the Depression, wars and other challenges. As before, we need that spirit to face our current challenges, he said, and to stake out this generation's place in our history, "understanding that each of us has a hand in writing America’s destiny": That is the spirit we are called to show once more. We are facing an array of challenges on a scale unseen in our time. We are waging two wars. We are battling a deep recession. And our economy – and our nation itself – are endangered by festering problems we have kicked down the road for far too long: spiraling health care costs; inadequate schools; and a dependence on foreign oil. He then launched into his trademark rhythmic declarative style, sentence after sentence beginning with the flourish, "Now is the time ...." Now is the time to fix education, to meet the energy challenge, to reform health care, to rebuild our economy. And to those who say all these changes are too ambitious and are ultimately impossible to attain, on this national holiday, the President had a punch-to-the-gut patriotic message: These naysayers have short memories. They forget that we, as a people, did not get here by standing pat in a time of change. We did not get here by doing what was easy. That is not how a cluster of 13 colonies became the United States of America. We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it. And on this July 4th, we need to summon that spirit once more. We need to summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago today. Yee-haw. Take that, obstructionist naysayer Republicans and weak-kneed Democrats. Final off-the-wall observation: I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest this may be the first time a President of the United States used the term, "kick back," in an address. Without sounding like an old guy trying to be hip, no less. The full address can be found beneath the fold, or on the White House website. dailykos.com