Obama vows 2.5 million jobs by 2011
The Swamp — by Frank James "It is time to act. As the next presidenrt of the United States, I will." That's how President-elect Barack Obama ends his weekly address today, a short speech in which he says that he has asked his economic team to draft a plan that would create 2.5 million jobs by the start of 2011 in an effort to give lift to an economy that has stalled.

Obama Promises "Immediate Action" On The Economy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars. "These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis; these are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long," Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address. The economic recovery plan being developed by his staff aims to create 2.5 million jobs by January 2011, and he wants to get it through Congress quickly and sign it soon after taking office. ...

Obama Promises "Immediate Action" On The Economy
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars. "These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis; these are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long," Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address. The economic recovery plan being developed by his staff aims to create 2.5 million jobs by January 2011, and he wants to get it through Congress quickly and sign it soon after taking office. ...

Acting 'swiftly and boldly'
Political Animal — ACTING 'SWIFTLY AND BOLDLY'.... Barack Obama's weekly radio/YouTube address was, not surprisingly, focused on the economy , and for those of us anxious to hear about his intentions to help stimulate the economy, the message sounded pretty good. He didn't go into too much detail -- it's a four-minute clip -- but the president-elect outlined "a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy." This includes investment in "rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the ...

President-elect Barack Obama's Weekly Address
The Latest on Air America — Watch President-elect Obama's weekly address in which he sounds a heck of a lot like a latter day FDR (and explains somewhat the centrist gestalt):

Obama Vows Action On Economy ASAP In Weekly You Tube Address
The Moderate Voice — One of the changes President Elect Barack Obama has immediately made to nudge the Presidency into the 21st century is to move the President’s weekly radio address into the realm of cyberspace as well by putting it on You Tube as well as on the broadcast airwaves. And it is a master stroke: how many people (particularly young people) are glued to their radios on Saturday morning at a specific hour, and how many people surf You Tube and embed interesting videos on weblogs (such as this) at their convenience? And what better example of the new weekly You Tube address to offer than today’s. In it, Obama: 1. Says action must be ...

The Saturday Word: Obama Aims for 2.5 Million Jobs
The Caucus — In his weekly address for broadcast today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to create 2.5 million new jobs by January 2011. “There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better,” he said. “But January 20th is our chance to begin anew – with a new direction, new ideas, and new reforms that will create jobs and fuel long-term economic growth.” Mr. Obama said he had “directed my economic team to come up with an Economic Recovery plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011.” He was short on details, but other comments suggest the plan could be ...

Obama proposes public works and job creation
Daily Kos — In his weekly address released today, President-Elect Barack Obama discussed his goal of creating 2.5 million jobs by 2011 through public works programs that will begin to repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure and through funding alternative energy technology. Good morning. The news this week has only reinforced the fact that we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions.  Financial markets faced more turmoil.  New home purchases in October were the lowest in half a century.  540,000 more jobless claims were filed last week, the highest in ...

Obama Radio/YouTube
Matthew Yglesias — Here’s the latest missive from our allegedly “center-right” president-elect: I have already directed my economic team to come up with an Economic Recovery Plan that will mean 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011 – a plan big enough to meet the challenges we face that I intend to sign soon after taking office. We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. We’ll put people back to work rebuilding our ...

Obama's Weekly Address to the Nation
Hoffmania! — His plan to create 2-1/2 million jobs and more.

Economic gloom
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama warns of economic danger in his weekly YouTube, and that "there are no quick and easy fixes" to a crisis that is "likely to get worse before it gets better." He does call for "immediate action," and sets a goal of saving or creating 2.5 million new jobs -- by 2011.

Election Central Saturday Roundup
TPM Election Central — Obama Calls For Major Public Works Initiative In his newest Presidential YouTube Address, Barack Obama announced a major policy initiative: A massive public-works program in order to simultaneously update the nation's infrastructure and create what he predicted would be 2.5 million new jobs by January 2011. "These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis; these are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long," Obama said. "And they represent an early down payment on the type of reform my Administration will bring to ...

Obama Outlines Plan for Massive Stimulus
Talking Points Memo — Transcript. NYTimes report. NBC reports.

I will follow
SteveAudio — There's been some bitching in the progressive bloggersphere that the new Obama administration hasn't been picking real progressives for senior positions. Emanuel, Clinton, etc., represent, to some, not "Change" but business as usual. At least they have 'D' after their names. ...

Barack Obama’s Weekly Address - Nov. 22nd, 2008
Firedoglake — President-Elect Barack Obama's weekly YouTube address for November 22nd, 2008. President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. ...

Obama economic plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Good. At this point, we need big plans and a vision. People need to think, to know, that their president is in charge and he's going to make sure everything turns out all right. The era of My Pet Goat is over. President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars. "These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis. These are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored ...

Obama: "Act Swiftly and Boldly"
Calculated Risk — From the NY Times: Obama Vows Swift Action on Vast Economic Stimulus Plan Mr. Obama said he would direct his economic team to design a two-year stimulus plan with the goal of saving or creating 2.5 million jobs, “a plan big enough to meet the challenges we face that I intend to sign soon after taking office” on Jan. 20, an indication that he would begin pushing his plan through Congress even before taking office. ... “The news this week has only reinforced the fact that we are facing an economic crisis of historic proportions,” Mr. Obama said. “We now risk falling into a deflationary spiral that could increase our massive debt even ...

Socialism we can use
Jesus' General — Obama announces public works initiative.

So, Who Does Your Weekly YouTube Address?
BAGnewsNotes — BHO Weekly Radio Address, 11.15.08 BHO Weekly Radio Address, 11.22.08 Karen, who wrote me last week about the surprisingly banal staging of Barack Obama's first Weekly YouTube ...

Stephen C. Rose: Behind Barack's Steely Resolve, the Idea of Unity, the Capacity to Grow
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — By Stephen C. Rose Barack is ready to rumble, in the face of a White House that is AWOL. As the mind-deficient media has groused with impunity about inessentials, Barack has gathered a complement of solid choices faster than any President-elect in memory. The notion that because people who know DC will surround him, he cannot bring change, is a cop out. If you want to fix something, it helps to know how it works. Barack is about proving out an idea. Like Lincoln. The idea is unity. A coat of many colors. An iron belief in the rightness and truth of unity is the source Barack's resolve. Barack also has is ...

I can has new preznit RITE NOW?
Brilliant at Breakfast — Meanwhile, someone forgot to tell Mitch McConnell, who just barely eked out re-election, that his party is in the minority. Of course, with Harry Reid being such a dickless wonder, who could blame him for trying?

Day By Day by Chris Muir November 24, 2008 - Leave It To The Professionals
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Day By Day by Chris Muir Barack Obama this weekend released another You Tube video -  this time announcing his economic recovery plan. Obama is talking over the fawning MSM that MIGHT wake up and ask him “REAL” questions. With Team Obama’s e-mail network of over ten million ...

Obama Gets in a Few Pre-Inaugural Words on Rebuilding
techPresident — President-elect Barack Obama is out with the second of his weekly bite-sized video messages to the American public, billed as "Your Weekly Address" and posted on both Change.gov and YouTube. (Though there's no Google monopoly at work here. Obama's video addresses are posted not only on the search giant's video site but on MSN Video and Yahoo! Video as well -- though you do have to squint a bit to see the links to the non-YouTube postings.) In this week's four-minute spot, Obama talks with urgency about the economic situation facing the country, saying that struggling Americans "need help, and they need it ...

Obama's Production Tweaks
techPresident — Before Broadway shows open in New York City, they're often taken for a trial run out in the American heartland to work out the kinks. And with this latest four-minute installment in Barack Obama's pre-presidential video productions posted on YouTube, you definitely get the feeling that somewhere there's an obsessive director making tweaks before taking a more polished show to Washington DC in seven weeks. (The video's down below.) Some of the distinctive props we've seen before have made a comeback, though with revisions. The John F. Kennedy book set is back, as is the blurry photograph of what I think is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...

Obama Promised 2.5 Million Stimulus Jobs... Created 30,083 & Lost Millions Instead
Gateway Pundit — Last November Barack Obama promised to "create or save" 2,500,000 jobs with the record stimulus package he was planning by January 2011. He's got a long ways to go. He promised 2,500,000 million jobs... But so far the democrats record "stimulus" package has only stimulated the economy enough to create only 30,000. ...Excuse me, 30,083 jobs. The Hill reported: The first direct stimulus reports showed that stimulus contracts saved or created just 30,083 jobs, prompting more Republican criticism of the $787 billion package. The data posted Thursday was the result of the ...