Obama: U.S. 'will emerge stronger' from crisis

The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | Stephen Dinan

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President Obama will pledge Tuesday night that the nation "will rebuild, we will recover," as he delivers an address to a joint session of Congress and with a nervous nation watching at home.

"While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," Mr. Obama will say, according to excerpts of his remarks.

In lofty language, Mr. Obama is expected to promise a new path forward and to draw distinctions with the way the country ran during the last eight years.

"What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more," Mr. Obama will say.

But the speech is also Mr. Obama's first major chance to put specifics to the promises he piled up during the campaign: to enact universal health care, to withdraw troops from Iraq, to change the tax code by increasing the burden on the wealthy and lowering the burden on low-income families, and to pursue a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

In the Republican response, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will acknowledge Republicans' big-government agenda and fealty to earmark spending were failures, but he will say Democrats are making those same mistakes now.

Democratic leaders say their legislation will grow the economy. What it will do is grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt," Mr. Jindal said in excerpts released to the press early.

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If he refers to the United States as a 'shining city on hill' I'll blow a gasket. How many lines will he still from Reagan tonight? Obama's credibility has been seriously damaged and he has only himself to blame. Who's buying it?

[rabscuttle385]

Obama: U.S. 'will emerge stronger' from crisis

He was talking about the Government, not the People.

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If he refers to the United States as a 'shining city on a hill' I'll blow a gasket. How many lines will he steal from Reagan tonight? Obama's credibility has been seriously damaged and he has only himself to blame. Who's buying it?

Spell check said it was OK.

[Syncro]

The DOW went up today to tease him

Tomorrow it will tank.

Too bad this speech isn't when the market is open

It's fun to watch it go down while he is talking.

On a side note, can't people buy and sell when the market is closed for the nite?

[skeeter]

First he was Lincoln, then he was FDR.

Now he's Reagan.

He needs to stop patterning himself after presidents, each of whom were far more significant figures than he & who's shoes he could never come close to filling, and begin channeling cartoon characters. More appropriate.

[KarlInOhio]

How about severely weakened under the crushing burden of yet another few trillion dollars of federal debt lent to us (for now) by our adversaries.

[Names Ash Housewares]

B.O. simply continues to campaign.

[WOSG]

I hope he is right. After we suffer years from Obama’s bad policies .... We will defeat Obama, reject his bad and wrong policies, and rebuild USA on a sounder footing.

[Retired Greyhound]

“He was talking about the Government, not the People. “

Exactly. And he is right.

[maggief]

“He was talking about the Government, not the People.”

Sadly, I agree.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more,”

Pull together? yeah right. Obama: “I WON”

Confront the challenges we face? BAHAHAHAHA! Cannot even bring himself to say “war on terror” and spend like there is no tomorrow.

Responsiblity for the future once more? See above!

[Puddleglum]

Lies like a Soviet - “Oh comrades, the harvest was glorious! Grain rations will be cut until further notice, and notify the Party of hoarders!”

[originalbuckeye]

0bamabots lap it up. I was having a conversation with a friend and I said that 0bama was a pathological liar. My friend (0bama supporter) started shaking. It's all emotional for them. Logic has no place in the head of an 0bama worshiper. Zero must lift phrases from others because he has no thoughts of his own. His mind is owned by Alinsky, Ayers and Soros.

[George Smiley]

I predict he’ll be Mussolini before long.

[Right Cal Gal]

“We will rebuild”????
Who does he think he’s talking to? A San Francisco audience in 1906??

[Puddleglum]

Here’s a dumb idea: instead of the FedGov taking our money and giving it back to us, after processing, to help us out, why not just renew the Bush tax cuts? Huh, O-Might blowhard?

[Crawdad]

Follow along at home.

http://data.cnbc.com/quotes/JP%3bN225

[Crawdad]

Also here:

http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

[Williams]

It’s just childish, we have always recovered from recessions he acts like he’s in the middle of WWII.

[Uncle Miltie]

"the United States of America will emerge stronger than before"

Only after Dems are soundly defeated at the polls.

Until then, The Destruction of Western Civilization proceeds apace as Administration policy.