(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 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.