powerlineblog.com - 1/20/2009
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President Obama's inaugural address was, I think, quite good for what it was. Obama wanted, I assume, to sound like a president and to offer something for everyone. With a decent text and strong oratory, he succeeded on the first count. As to the second, the new president sounded enough themes ...
Obama's Speech
minx.cc 2/24/2009 — Sounds like fun.Aides say the speech, which will have a heavy focus on the economy, will try and strike an optimistic tone. That's a sign Obama has heard the criticism, including from former President Bill Clinton, that he needs to...
re: The Speech
corner.nationalreview.com 1/20/2009 — It was a very Obama speech, I thought. It reminded me of the first time I heard him give a speech live, at the Meadowlands, in New Jersey around this time last year. An Obama speech typically leaves ample opportunity for projection. Hope, change, and ...
Obama's Speech
corner.nationalreview.com 3/9/2009 — As President Obama finished addressing the topic, I spoke to Rep. Mike Pence (R, Ind.) regarding Obama's policy of funding experiments that require the destruction of human embryos:
"I've always believed it's morally wrong to use taxpayer dollars ...
The Speech
corner.nationalreview.com 1/22/2009 — It's hard to say anything about it that hasn't already been remarked upon in here or elsewhere. Like others, I was struck by how pedestrian the prose was, but on re-reading it, I like the plainspokenness of it. The weakest moments were when it, ...
Stimulus speech
washingtonmonthly.com 1/9/2009 — STIMULUS SPEECH.... It's not especially common for presidents-elect to give major policy addresses two weeks before Inauguration Day, but watching Barack Obama's speech in northern Virginia this morning, we were reminded that these are not ordinary ...
Obama's speech: 2 months in the making
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 1/20/2009 — From NBC's Mark MurrayAccording to senior Obama aides, who briefed reporters on Obama's speech before he delivered it, the initial meeting to begin drafting Obama's inaugural address took place before Thanksgiving, when Obama first laid out ...
Obama speech: 'Yes, we can change'
cnn.com 2/1/2009 — COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- Here is the transcript of Sen. Barack Obama's remarks after he won the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina. Thank you, South Carolina. Thank you to the rock of my life, Michelle Obama. Thank you to Malia ...
A Very Good Speech
weeklystandard.com 1/20/2009 — Having just listened to the speech, I think there was a lot to like there for those whose greatest concern is that Obama is soft -- that he doesn't appreciate the role violence has played in forging our democracy. Dianne Feinstein opened the ceremony ...
A Speech Only A Democrat Would Give
firedoglake.com 1/20/2009 — What surprised me about Obama's inaugural speech was what a stinging rebuke of Republicanism it was, in particular, Bush era Republicanism. For all the talk lately about how Obama is a "post-partisan" Democrat, its partisanship was ...
Alaska Politics Blog : The speech
community.adn.com 1/23/2009 — This is the place to talk about Alaska politics -- state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier has probably never been more interesting than right now -- the governor as candidate for vice president, the broad and still-evolving ...
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