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

To: puborectalis who wrote (88403)	1/26/2011 1:12:12 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

I agree 100% with everything you said. Last nite, I watched the SOTU on line with CNN and was able to see the reaction of Dems, Rs and Indies to the speech. Dems and Indies tracked right along with Obama......Rs, not so much. I hope Rs paint themselves into a corner. "Ryan seems to think our biggest problem isn’t 15 million people out of work, but $14 trillion in debt. He scoffs at the stimulus spending that rescued millions from poverty and saved the economy. He rejects any notion that the government can invest wisely for the future. While Obama sees government as sort of a venture capitalist for the next generation of cutting-edge businesses, the Republicans see only faceless government bureaucrats who slow us down, who make us lazy and soft. Ryan and his fellow Republicans are surely right that Americans want a limited government, but Obama is probably closer to the national mood in his assessment that what we want is limited and effective government. We like our liberties, but we also like our federal highways, our universities, and our Internet. Since that electoral shellacking in November, Obama has had three very good months. The more the Republicans dig in for partisan fights, the more presidential Obama appears. After the Gabby Giffords shooting and again at the State of the Union, Obama has had the perfect settings for his brand of visionary leadership. Obama has been optimistic and prophetic; the Republicans have seemed merely political."