Obama: Let’s try common sense
by Michael C. Bender | January 27th, 2010From President Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight: (more excerpts here)
Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it’s time for something new. Let’s try common sense. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let’s meet our responsibility to the people who sent us here.
To do that, we have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now. We face a deficit of trust – deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve.
That’s what I came to Washington to do. That’s why – for the first time in history – my Administration posts our White House visitors online. And that’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.
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January 27th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
We will continue to change the foundation of the country; regardless of what the peons want.
January 27th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Number of Times Obama Refers to Himself in One Speech: 132…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UIpW_3P5s&feature=player_embedded
January 27th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
The tax debt for EACH household, as of right now, is $100,000…tell your children to start cracking and get ready to hand over their paychecks to the government.
$100K per household!!!!! The INsanity of this debt is incredible!
Think about who YOU vote into office!
January 27th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
to all the idiots that voted for this fool ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›