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swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/24/2009
State of the Union
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As he heads into his big budget speech tonight--the rookie equivalent of a State of the Union Address--Barack Obama gets high marks from the public in both the New York Times and the Washington Post polls. The Republican attempt to play politics as usual at a time of national crisis receives ...
OBAMA'S NOT-STATE OF THE UNION.
prospect.org - 2/25/2009
OBAMA'S NOT-STATE OF THE UNION.
— prospect.org — Jon Stewart had a line about President Bush. He used to say it whenever people implied the... former president was a dunce. "I don't think he's stupid," Stewart would reply. "I think we're stupid, because if we weren't, he wouldn't talk to us this way." ... (more) OBAMA'S NOT-STATE OF THE UNION.

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Obama State of the Union Address (Video, Transcript)
military.rightpundits.com - 2/24/2009
Obama State of the Union Address (Video, Transcript)
— military.rightpundits.com — Watch the so-called Obama State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 24th 2009 on a live... video stream feed with live-blogging commentary that will be simulcast on both Blue Star Chronicles and Right Pundits. Read the transcript when available. Although the Obama speech to Congress’ ... (more) Obama State of the Union Address (Video, Transcript)

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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/2/2009
Obama Touts Budget at State of the Black Union
— thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com — Speaking via video to the gathering of African-Americans, President Obama did not address the historic nature of... his election, nor did he embark on the racial dialogue he called for in his landmark address in March. (more) Obama Touts Budget at State of the Black Union

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Burkean Alarm Bells

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Burkean Alarm Bells
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joe Klein previews tonight's speech and echoes my reaction to David Brooks.

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Full text of Obama's speech to Congress and the nation
latimesblogs.latimes.com 2/25/2009 — Here is the text of President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress, as released by the White House moments ago: Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come ...
William Galston: Assurance to the Nation: Obama Delivers First Address to Congress
huffingtonpost.com 2/25/2009 — With an unflinching speech, Barack Obama wagered his presidency on his ability to move an ambitious agenda through the Congress while stabilizing the economy and reducing the budget deficit. Perhaps responding to the criticism he has received in ...
Sneaky Back Door Gun Grab in Obama Budget?
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 2/25/2009 — Keep an eye out for this when Barack Obama releases his budget blueprint later this week. What these Democrats can't accomplish in the open they'll always try to slip through the back door."A potential legislative gun rights battle looms today in ...
Little More State Of The Union — BAGnewsNotes
I enjoy the tilt-shift technique . Still, I'm wondering about the dynamics here, in this State of the Union photo by Brooks Kraft for the TIME White House photo site . What are the implications of turning Obama, Biden, Pelosi, the Cabinet, the Joint Chiefs, the Supreme Court, and members ...
$634 billion budgeted by Obama for the uninsured — Daily Kos
Looks like the outlines of a health care reform package are coming clear in the soon-to-be-released budget on offer by President Barack Obama. Via the Los Angeles Times : Medicare cuts, tax hike on wealthy to pay for healthcare plan Obama budget proposes $634-billion fund to bring coverage ...
Poll: Obama Broke Through Polarization Across Party Lines — Crooks and Liars
(Clip from Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research, whose results are similar to Democracy Corps.) I can't tell you how happy I am to see this. It's going to be a lot easier to fix things when the president inspires this kind of support from both Democrats and Republicans: Democracy Corps conducted ...
Kenneth Thorpe: The Obama Budget and Health Reform — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
President Barack Obama will unveil his budget tomorrow, and many are anxiously anticipating what this will mean for health care, as all signs, including his speech to the nation last night, show he is ready to move forward with health reform. Indeed, the budget is a critical factor ...
Video of President Barack Obama’s First Budget Speech To Congress — The Moderate Voice
If you missed President Barack Obama’s first speech to Congress last night here it is. We’ve gotten emails from readers who asked for the embed of the speech so they can make their own decisions about what he said, didn’t say instead of reading or hearing new and mainstream ...
Obama's Speech Long on Spending Plans, Short on Specifics — Politics Daily
President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last night in a speech that was billed as a road map for the nation pointing the way out of the current economic morass. But what he delivered instead was a partisan laundry list of wishes and goals with precious little in the way of ...
Robert Scheer: Getting Warmer — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
We are lucky to have Barack Obama as president. I write that even though I believe the content of his Tuesday evening speech deserved no more than a B+ / A-, for its failure to seriously address the origins of the banking crisis and for only hinting at the severe military budget cuts ...
Getting Warmer — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
We are lucky to have Barack Obama as president. I write that even though I believe the content of his Tuesday evening speech deserved no more than a B+ / A-, for its failure to seriously address the origins of the banking crisis and for only hinting at the severe military budget cuts ...
Another Poll Shows High Marks For Obama Speech — TPM Election Central
Another national poll is out testing the reaction to Obama's speech, with CNN showing that speech-watchers came away feeling optimistic and reassured. The numbers: 68% of viewers said they had a positive reaction, compared to 24% negative. And an astonishing 85% said the speech made them ...
First Post-Speech Poll Shows Bounce For Obama On Economy — TPM Election Central
CBS News is first out the gate with a survey testing the reactions to the Sort-of-State-of-the-Union speech, with a Web-based poll by Knowledge Networks showing respondents' views of Obama before and after the speech. The first number out so far: 62% of speech-watchers before the speech ...
Did Obama’s Budget Speech Define Him As Left Of Center? — The Moderate Voice
The verdicts are now trickling in on what was essentially all but a State of the Union address by President Barack Obama — officially, a speech on his upcoming budget. And here’s one of the first from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Matthews contends that Obama gave a meaty speech ...
Live Chat on Obama's Speech to Congress — NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Tonight at 9pm ET President Barack Obama will address Congress for the first time. He will be speaking about his plan for the economy and we here at NewsBusters will be putting on a live chat. Feel free to talk about the speech itself, media reaction to it, and anything else you might think of. ...
State of the Union: 'Difficulties right now' — The Swamp
by Mark Silva It may take 45 minutes to deliver a speech, but it should take less than a minute to get the message. And the White House has been fairly pointed this evening in its release of precious few excerpts from the long speech that President Barack Obama will deliver at 9 pm EST to ...
Call it the Obama Budget Deficit — RedState: Conservative News and Community
With President Barack Obama’s big economic address to a joint session of Congress tonight, lines like this in mainstream news stories are appearing with distressing predictability. “The president’s budget proposal will project that the estimated $1.3 trillion deficit ...
Obama To Announce Iraq Withdrawal — Politics Daily
In his Not-The-State of the Union Address , President Obama mentioned the Iraq war only in broad terms, promising to "soon announce a way forward in Iraq that leaves Iraq to its people and responsibly ends this war." Well, "soon" may be this week, according to the AP. A senior White House ...
Obama Lunches With TV Anchors — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
President Obama had a few lunch guests over to the White House on Tuesday to offer a preview of the evening speech he will be delivering to a joint session of Congress. It's not a day for the State of the Union Address, but the White House is following many of the same rituals that come ...
The Democrat who hogs the aisle seat at every presidential address to Congress — Top of the Ticket
Tonight's speech to Congress by   President Obama is not being called the annual State of the Union address, a deference to the fact that Obama already addressed Congress this year when he delivered his inaugural address Jan. 20. But viewers will be forgiven if they fail to see a ...
Polls: Obama Clout Strong As Bipartisanship Wanes Amid Low GOP Numbers — The Moderate Voice
As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a major speech on the budget and vows to pursue bipartisanship to reduce an ever-exploding deficit, two polls bring him and Democrats encouraging news — and suggest more than ever that the Republican party could be digging itself into a deeper ...
Pres. Obama to Address the Nation on Budget Issues — A Blog For All
Barreling ahead on a mammoth agenda, Barack Obama is ready to offer a detailed sketch of the first year of his presidency, casting the nation's bleeding economy as a tangle of tough, neglected problems. In a prime-time speech from the House of Representatives, Obama will make his case Tuesday ...
Obama: State of the Union Address ... Almost — Daily Kos
Meeting to discuss "the close and longstanding alliance between the United States and Japan," President Obama will sit down with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso in the Oval Office today, according to a White House press release. And this evening, the President will address a joint session of ...