Obama speech, as seen through my Twitter

Ian | 24 February, 2009 | 20:30

(Chronological)

About to watch Obama speech. Will live-tweet. Dion should take notes.
CBC coverage: “It’s like a speech from the throne without the throne”
Creationist Bobby Jindal to rebut after, sigh
Why isn’t #Obama in HD?
5 minutes of straight clapping for #Obama, he actually wants to say something I think
“Survival depends on new energy sources” need health care reform
Republicans aren’t standing for stimulus becoming law
“Because nobody messes with Joe (Biden)”
auto/college/small business loans from Gov’t fund
Banks not getting string-free bailouts gets full standing ovation #Obama “Those days are over!”
US Budget priorities: Energy, Health Care, Education
“Market based cap on carbon emission” #Obama – different page than Harper
“The nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it” #Obama
Health care reform in the US this year
#Obama asks every American to get at least 1 year of post-secondary.
By 2020 US to have highest % college graduates.
Eliminating “no bid contracts” in Iraq
No tax increases for families making less than $250K
Tax cuts for 95% of families by April
“The USA Does Not Torture”
Had to end with the God Bless yous/ USA

Also, check out Recovery.Gov for updates on how he moves forward with his stimulus packages.

Overall, I’d say it was a good speech.

I was almost expecting at times that he’d call for a nationalized health care or nationalizing the banks, but then I remembered I was watching the president of the US.

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For a real laugh, check out the reactions to Bobby

Brian D | 25 February, 2009 | 20:21

For a real laugh, check out the reactions to Bobby Jindal’s flop of a speech. It’s hilarious. He actually brought up the response to Katrina as an example of the direction the country should be going — while channeling Palin’s fruit-fly remarks against “volcano monitoring” (which cheesed off the mayor of Vancouver, naturally). When the National Review (the US’s National Post) says “He should never be allowed near a teleprompter again!”, something’s up.