The first five minutes were into, as any good speech coach will tell you, and then he got to the nuts and bolts. He didn’t have an effective conclusion at all. I thought it was a very abrupt ending.
He did say something like “pass it now” a coupla dozen times.
And now we find it isn’t even written? Typical politician. They were waiting to see the blowback before the put pen to page.
Being a veteran and a red-blooded American, I liked the idea of finding jobs for veterans. I’m also a “buy American” supporter, so that was a decent part of the speech.
I was hoping to hear about total tax reform. He spoke about “reform” of one portion of one section of tax law. They’re gonna tweak capital gains a bit. Whoop.
The only economic proposal I want to hear from now on is a sweeping change of our tax system. Get RID of the originally unconstitutional income tax, and go to a consumption tax.
It was a "speech". Obama gave it. So it was filled with lies.
I cannot stomach listening to him or watching him on TV. All I know about the speech I read on Free Republic.
The principle issue is that Obama demanded that Congress pass his bill, but there isn't any bill. Has the MSM picked up on this?
It's just a campaign speech. It's one more move to try and point the finger of blame at the GOP for the incredible mess he has created. Another example of this is the new mantra that "Washington is broken". The reality is the Pubs have offered one great bill after another. They passed the Ryan Budget Plan. They passed Cut, Cap and Balance. They have offered to try and find common ground on a variety of issues and the Rats have done NOTHING!
If this jerk is reelected we deserve the catastrophe that will follow.