I agree Chris. We need that congress back in action. After all they were the ones who saved the Clinton presidency from that abysmal catastrophy it was in the first 2 years. Where do we find fresh people like those in that successful congress so we can elect them today?
On a side note how does the former President get all the credit for all of it when he vetoed 2 of the key motions that made it all work a couple times before he signed it?
It's more congress that has control over these things. And the 109th and 110th congress (to which I've begun to ponder the fact that Barrack Obama was first elected to) has an abysmal performance record. They sit on their hands and do nothing, or just argue all day and do nothing. The only thing they agree on is their salaries and the buget for conventions. Republican controlled or Democrat controlled, it didn't matter. Both 109 and 110 are horrible congress'. Nacy Peloski is incompetant. Bring back Newt!
But anyway, the speech...
Same old stuff and even the same old tone of voice we've heard a million times before on the campaign. Loved it the first couple times I heard it, but that was 9 months ago. Today, as I know more about the man and the candidate himself, I was bugged by it. Because I see alot of incongruence in what Obama does compared to what Obama says. It's the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality that he reaks. I see a typical old fashioned politician that sounds good but never tells you exactly how he's going to do it, and when you look beneath the surface you have very good reason to be skeptical about because his past actions contradict his present words. If I continued to listen to Obama, I'd think he could make himself walk on water or something. I have yet to hear the HOW to his "he will"... and that's pretty bad for saying he'd define change in the speech. He still used mostly vague, broad strokes of rhetoric.
It's frustrating to me as someone still looking for that great inspirational bi-partisan candidate. Because the more I look deeper, the more I feel Obama just isn't what he wants people to believe he is. There are several facts about Obama to lead me to that conclusion, but for the sake of energy and your attention span, I'll leave it at that. I love Joe Biden though. Biden is truely authentic. He's the real deal... and he's got a backbone with foreign policy experience.
Who will I vote for? Still don't know. We'll have to see who John McCain picks for Vice President.
