Posted on 01/27/2010 8:09:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Declaring "I don't quit,'" President Barack Obama fought to recharge his embattled presidency with a State of the Union vow to get jobless millions back to work and to stand on the side of Americans angry at Wall Street greed and Washington bickering. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would fight on for ambitious overhauls of health care, energy and education.
"Change has not come fast enough," Obama acknowledged Wednesday night before a politician-packed House chamber and a TV audience of millions. "As hard as it may be, as uncomfortable and contentious as the debates may be, it's time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth."
Obama looked to change the conversation from how his presidency is stalling — over the messy health care debate, a limping economy and the missteps that led to Christmas Day's barely averted terrorist disaster — to how he is seizing the reins. He spoke to a nation gloomy over double-digit unemployment and federal deficits soaring to a record $1.4 trillion, and to fellow Democrats dispirited about the fallen standing of a president they hoped would carry them through this fall's midterm elections.
With State of the Union messages traditionally delivered at the end of January, Obama had one of the presidency's biggest platforms just a week after Republicans scored an upset takeover of a Senate seat in Massachusetts, prompting hand-wringing over his leadership. With the turnover erasing Democrats' Senate supermajority needed to pass most legislation, it also put a cloud over health care and the rest of Obama's agenda.
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This is a recombobulated piece FRom Jennifer ‘at the AP Lovin’ Obama’ Loven
retitled and an update to earlier
Obama vows to make job growth his top priority
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438960/posts
This is a recombobulated piece FRom Jennifer ‘at the AP Lovin’ Obama’ Loven
retitled and an update to earlier
Obama vows to make job growth his top priority
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438960/posts
DW and I counted seven times that he blamed Bush for various things...
I.Hate.Obama!
You don’t quit? No problem—we’re going to fire your ass, you lying SOB.
Since he doesn’t quit, I’m looking forward to some powers that be removing him forcibly. How he has the chutzpah to churn out the same tired old rhetoric and keep on keepin’ on amazes me.
Obama is channeling Richard Nixon!
**Embattled Obama declares in speech, ‘I don’t quit’**
We wish you would. LOL!
It's easy after you sell your soul.
It's part of the Democratic Party secret initiation ritual.
You even get self-righteous about killing babies after the ceremony!
This is the second media outlet to call the new “Jobs Bill” proposed in the SOTU a second “stimulus” package. I hope that name sticks.
Okay, he doesn’t quit.
I guess we’ll have to fire him.
Was the “I don’t quit” remark a swipe at a recently retired governor from way up north?
As I listened to him just talk, I kept thinking:
“You got nuthin.”
More likely a response to his own fellow Dems bailing on him because they got tired of being driven over a cliff by a trio of obstinate jackasses hellbent on human sacrifice.
If he keeps it up, he will.
funny, he “quit” being a community organizer having accomplished nothing
he “quit” being a state legislator before he accomplished on damned thing, but he sure did manage to avoid a ton of votes
he “quit” being a US Senator before he’d finished one term and before he’d accomplished anything at all — doesn’t even know his way around the Senate cloakroom
maybe now he can “quit” being POTUS in order to become Secretary General of the UN — that’s really the right position for him -— all words and propaganda
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