Obama's Radio Address 11-22-08

[pat442389]

i thought he would have mentioned kennedys 45th assassination anniv. but he didnt

[kanetrain111]

watch the Obama Deception on Youtube

[tivopro]

That's why I added these videos, I figured sooner or later people would see the light.

[UNARMY9]

my idea is if you want to protect for us citizen for housing ,mortgage is charging the intrest took from the borrower half of amount of every mothy paymant it will be work for both side long term , please think about , thanks

[wylietxgent]

This screwball will fuck this country worse than it already is! He is a.JOKE!!!

[rangeyer]

I love how Obama is being transparent with the people and telling us like it is.....We are very fortunate to have him as our president. I believe he is going to be "for the people". Complete opposite of fuckin bush

[BingGOT83]

I find myself looking more forward to January 20th than December 25th. Anyone else feel that way?

[rangeyer]

Absolutely! 8 years of George Bush HELL!! is almost over....thank God

[Tunedup81]

guess we could always put a carbon tax or credit on everything like Gore wants... someones gonna have to pay for these changes.. may as well be the same old people.. Middle class.

[pat442389]

or we could just stop the "war on drugs" and have clinics sell them to addicts who are already using and buying them at outragous prices. we could tax the drugs and lower crime rates saving money and making money at the same time.

[OpenSingularity]

We have to examine what we think is wrong, all aspects of the monolithic behemoth, then prioritize/develop/execute/lea­rn/improve/repeat actions to resolve each issue.

A tactical revision of strategy.

Our personal experiences are our reference points. Unfortunately its hard to disentangle our emotions when we relate them. The essence of the stories is an issue to be addressed.

The point is the evil minions of the top 10% maintain the status quo by any means, making the American Dream a myth.

[TheKitXune]

Well said.

[BingGOT83]

I second that motion. Good statement.

[luvobamas]

January 20th can't come soon enough!

[wdcsucks1]

change? with a whole clinton hawkish staff??? this is change???the guy who was working on the bailout money with paulson as treasury secretary (tim githner) this is change???hillary clinton as state secretary this is change???a top adviser like zbigniew brzezinski, this is change???AMERICA WAKE UP!!!

[lionheartscotrock]

Read "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Obama is doing a good job so far of channeling Lincoln. You don't erect change with dreamers who can't produce; you take the best and the most competent, make sure they understand the game plan, and let them GET THINGS DONE. Clinton was the best ideologue we've had; his incompetent execution left a power vacuum. Obama is ideologically sound, but a process realist, as well. It might actually happen.

[akt1982]

Men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I. -William Wallace, Braveheart.

[akt1982]

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The U.S. and the world is behind you Mr. President (I know I am getting a little ahead of myself) lead and we will follow.

[PassionStorm45]

Americans can do anything we put our minds to. All we need is a good leader with the ability to unite us to work together twords a common goal, instead of always fighting against each other. Obama is looking like he might just be able to do it. If he cant, it looks the world is in it.

[lionheartscotrock]

The man gets it. WE are the economy, and WE must get moving. The only thing he can do is lead and build our confidence...but WE have to do the work. The Bully Pulpit is his major weapon, and that, he's using masterfully. Jobs, to those of us of a certain age, let us hold our heads up in the world, instead of stuffing dollars in the mattress. Willingness to speak to us directly is a breath of fresh air.

[looknleo3]

god bless obama

[GeneralBirdMan]

This guy better fix our economy fast. I think the key to this economic problem is energy, so if he's serious he should build breeder reactors. I've heard from reputable physicists that they could provide enough energy for at least 1000 years.

[OpenSingularity]

I agree. The only problem with nukes is waste, so we - Americans - have an opportunity to make bank by solving this problem.

I think in doing so we would also create a solution for disposing all the rest of our pollutants; nuke them & process all the waste together ;

[hansonkewl06]

@Rihadirk: provide proof if you're so smart

When our country has spent so much on bailout funds, we want our return generated and get back what once belonged to us. Government spending to greater future is exactly what we need in coming year. Obama is doing the right thing. And that is exactly what China is doing to save themselves from falling.

You think you're any smarter than the Chinese or a lawyer whos graduated from Harvard?

[RihadinK9]

Obama is reading the wrong books. Massive government spending will NOT "save" the economy.

[OpenSingularity]

Rihadirk: cerf around WPA & FDR. In the final analysis, this was not enough to end the economic problems 80 years ago, capitalism works best when there are frontiers to explore.

What frontiers are there that we can explore now? We are on the threshold of space, but after the JFK coupe we have lost the lead; India and Japan are most viable in commercial exploration. We have not only got to catch up, we need the Federal Reserve to stake us - and we also need to stop fighting like children.

[summrboy]

Wow. I'm struck by the contrast of President Elect Obama and our current Hindenburg-in-chief, George "nuke-yuh-lur" Bush. After the September 11th attacks and our economy was in free fall, his TOTAL economic plan was to advise Americans to "go shopping". How refreshing to have someone in the White House who's not intellectually inert.

[OpenSingularity]

FYI My last post was quashed by censors. I said something about the DOD surveillance & W...

[luvobamas]

At last a President with good commom sense. One who is thinking about all Americans not just the priviledged few. President-elect Obama understand what will work to jump-start our economics. This is sooooo exciting.

[dellamalo]

Yea why don't you go live in his district he rep'd in the state senate. Its a shithole with the highest murder rate in the country. He really brought the "change"

You Idiot

[econdemocracy]

Wake up bashers! Germany is not some socialist evil country, neither is Japan, they're kicking our butt in wind and solar power production, they haven't lost any freedoms, no, we Americans are the ones who lost freedoms during 2000 to 2008. Stop screaming socialism every time the government has programs to help the public (instead of only programs for rich,for bombs, for corporates) it's their job and patriotic duty as the public's servant for govt to have programs that serve the public,our kids

[llSANEll]

You know nothing! The poor get welfare and food stamps. Only 10% income tax compared to 30% for any hard worker making over 100,000 dollars. Maybe it isn't the rich who's money ultimately fuels the country. The rich don't wake up rich! They work!

[TheKitXune]

"The rich don't wake up rich!"

Beg to differ. To get rich these days, you have to either start with something upon which to build, or you have to get really, really lucky. If you start off with little or nothing to build upon, there's nowhere to go.

For example: to get a high paying job, you need a good education. To get a good education, you need a lot of money. To get a lot of money, you need a high paying job.

[MrJud]

its not fair to put all of successful business under one umbrella. thats what risks, loans, and credit cards are for. and to get a good education, you can get scholarships through merit and hard work. people need to stop being jealous of the rich and successful and emulate what they did to get ahead. its the defeatist attitude that keeps people from trying to advance.

unless you're a trust fund baby...then thats up to parental upbringing to inspire them to have goals and ambitions

[TheKitXune]

The fact is that, whatever the reason, children tend to follow in their parents foot steps. People emulate what they see.

It's not that they have to, it's that they tend to. The human animal is a conformist one. This is why it's so important to keep track of, and create, trends.

It's important regardless of whether you're the president of an advertisement co., or of a country.

[MrJud]

exactly, if the parent is a good example, then it is more than likely the child will emulate it. if the parent did nothing more than give the kids whatever they want without having them earn it, they're on their own to figure out how to preserve that cash flow.

[OpenSingularity]

Hard work and kissing ass is not enough. I know brilliant people who had their life's work and dreams seized and held by the rich.

Check the legal history of the microprocessor for one of a million instances of wealthy looters.

[TheKitXune]

Alas, I've heard of that too. I was, however, referring more to social trends.

A genius born into a well-faring family might fare well, but the same person born into a rotten family might not.

[TheKitXune]

To elaborate: in such a case, money is a factor, but not the only one.

[OpenSingularity]

A month ago on Real Time with Bill Maher a fed who knows W said "He was born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple".

So a moron born into a rich family can even be president of the USA, but a brilliant child born into poverty has to sell their soul to people like W to get ahead.

So much wealth of knowledge has been lost because the brilliant child won't take the shit deal.

[MrJud]

thats ridiculous, if hard work isnt enough, why have ambition? kissing ass helps but not always...people who invest their money or inventions in anything are always at risk of losing it all (especially without hiring a lawyer and taking measures to protect themselves). its a matter of personal responsability, risk management, and even trust.

i dont deny that there are big companies out to take advantage of smaller businesses, but thats the way life has been for centuries.

[OpenSingularity]

Your one question is the point.

"Cast not ye pearls before swine, lest they be taken from you and ye be rended limb from limb." - guess who

The genius disconvers; what they do with it is not their area of specialty and it most certainly is their bane.

Would Albert Einstein have published if he could foresee Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the cold war and his OSS/CIA guilded cage? No, he would have chosen poverty and a clear conscious.

[OpenSingularity]

You didn't grow up poor in a savage family, did you? Street kids only think about getting through the day; investment? Lawyers? Cops are the enemy: lawyers and judges work for the same company; run!

After food and a place to sleep, school is a luxury you might have time & money for. If you think the poor are envious you are wrong. They are desperate.

[MrJud]

then your argument about microsoft stealing crap is moot. what street kid is going into the software business already? they can think about doing well in school to get scholarships, maybe even work to save up for college.

the point is, if you're somewhere in life that you're not happy, work your way out of it. it isnt hopeless.

and sorry, you're right. im privelaged to not grow up in a poor savage family. my father did. and he made sure i didnt, but had the same work ethics/morals.

[OpenSingularity]

You ass, I built a software company from my mind, on my own ability. I lost it because W drove the business overseas.

You are talking to a man who raised himself because the alternative was death.

I was into BI in 1991-3 and MS has used my work for a fortune 10 MNC as a case study. In that corporation many tools like you took credit for my work, but in time the truth came out - they couldn't deliver, but I always did.

I still have my pearls.

[MrJud]

im sorry to hear your business was lost overseas. but you can't blame the president for everything. i congratulate you on working your way to survival, but you shouldnt give up on working hard now.

from where i sit, i have to wonder if you're doing anything about it. i'm sure you are.  you can keep telling me what went wrong, and i won't call you a liar. that won't get you anywhere, however. you're better off taking it to court..which i admit is expensive, but i dont know an alternative

[TheKitXune]

"the point is, if you're somewhere in life that you're not happy, work your way out of it."

Sometimes you can't.

[OpenSingularity]

Don't waste your time on Mr Jud. He only hears what he wants to. Its called 'denial'.

[TheKitXune]

"thats ridiculous, if hard work isnt enough, why have ambition?"

Good question. Can you answer it?

[MrJud]

yes. sit, complain about the rich and their conspiracies, and beg for handouts.

otherwise, work for what you want.

[OpenSingularity]

I don't need a handout and I'm not asking for one.

I want fairness and liberty to innovate. Why do you think Bill Gates took his business elsewhere? In 1998 your 'representatives' were discussing how to serve up his company...

I want the secret police to get out of my comm.

I want the cops to not behave like an occupational army.

[TheKitXune]

You appear to be missing the point...

[MrJud]

honestly i am. you keep deviating. all i gathered from you was that the unfortunate have no hope and shouldnt bother trying no matter how gifted they are.

i simply disagree.

[TheKitXune]

No, I don't think they should give up, I think they should have an alternative to giving up.

[OpenSingularity]

I was expelled from high school my sophomore year for too many days 'non-attendance'. I had no money and nowhere to live; there were no social services.

I was pleased to turn 18; I was stunned when I reached 21. I had just scraped by and I realized that I might actually live a complete life.

I made college but the racists made sure I got no fi-aid; I have no degrees, yet I have always earned - thats wages, not cap gains - about 3-4x the average for a recipient of a master's degree.

[OpenSingularity]

Since you are sitting at a PC I am going to sharpen my 'greed' axe against your head.

You might remember a few years ago in January when Microsoft downloaded a 'security patch' on you computer that disabled embedded code from running in IE. This was the final ruling of an 11 yr lawsuit by some poor kids - Aeolus Software - who invented the technology that MS took without payment. Because they were poor, UC had to bankroll the lawsuit on their behalf. I can't get 11 years back; can you?

[lionheartscotrock]

I lost it all in the 2001 crash, so I have 8 years' seniority on all of you. With cancer, my wife's stroke, and a layoff in one month, I think I've got as good a right to complain as anyone -- and I don't have 40 years to make up for lost time (10 at the outside max). The economy's hurt us all; we can either complain about it, or try to support the one guy who seems determined to get SOMETHING going again. (And it wasn't W who put the jobs in India -- it was Bernie Ebberts)

[OpenSingularity]

Sorry to hear about the health problems, there is nothing you can do about that.

I too am enthusiastic about Obama's intentions. I said nothing about India, my beef is with the SEC for not enforcing the existing laws prior to 2002 and screwing everything up worse with new ones - prelude to the current situ. The politicians wanted to be in charge so the responsibility falls on the incumbents, regardless of party.

[lionheartscotrock]

It seems that Obama wasn't a trust fund baby either. He writes that his and Michelle's "college loans were bigger than our mortgage", which is true of most people I know. Neither he, Clinton, Carter, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, or Ike, were born with silver spoons in their mouths. The ones with "real" money? Bush, Bush, Kerry, McCain. It's still possible to be Horation Alger in America, but we need more OF them, not just a few.

[2525jds]

I hope i am wrong

[dellamalo]

That sounds great! I look foward to seeing the magic you will work with this country. You have done so much for the crime ridden slums you represented in Chicago which now has the highest murder rate in the country.

Congrats!

[OpenSingularity]

Interesting perspective, I'd like more facts. You know W got TX out of recession by taxing to build jails and incarcerate the naive? Thats why the % of US in jail is now the highest in the world: its profitable, to W & friends.

I'm sure he didn't throw you any contracts, though, otherwise you wouldn't have anything to say.

[2525jds]

The stock market don't like obmama all the people are taking out there money to hide it from obmama tax plan

[2525jds]

This is a sad time for this country. Our freedom is fading away as Obmama moves us toward socialism. which means success for no one mediocrety for all. God Bless America, Save us from Obmama. Drill here Drill now while we work on alternitive fuels.

[mcschoep56]

You don't know what you're talking about. How old are you? You have a lot to learn!

[rhmras]

I thank God that the fallacy and broken promises of "trickle down" economics is over and that we have a President-Elect who understands that the real foundation to a successful economy is a strong consumer base. For too long our salaries and wages have been stagnane or declining while the rich have seen their incomes dramatically increase. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that such a situation cannot sustain itself for very long.

[gemcutter187]

Sounds great! Hope you can get it through!

[openvoting]

1. Provide a standard URL to find Obama's weekly talk.

2. Provide an option to subscribe to an email alert when the talk is posted (with URL included, please).

Thanks very much for evolving toward a "...government for the people."

[RebelFleetCommander]

Yes, to whoever is in charge of this, a permanent location where there will be links to all of the Obama addresses is badly needed. How about the White House web site when the time comes? Millions of Americans actually using the President's web site - imagine that.

[luvobamas]

What I love about Obama is that he's calling all of us to be involved. "Power to the people".

[OpenSingularity]

Can a fixed url please be created for the president-elect's weekly video blog, to make it easy to find?

[AbsurdRandomness3]

thank you for posting this.

[tivopro]

Keep comments on topic and appropriate for others to read!