Anyone listening to Obama speak?

[samplegirl]

Why is media not covering this on local channels?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

1. i was. But it sounds like his other speeches.

[samplegirl]

5. No.......

I think we will see changes!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. I hope you are right.

[NoOneMan]

31. Are you implying that his other speeches haven't manifested into significant changes?

[Wednesdays]

52. Facepalm.

#_=_

[liberal N proud]

83. Aint' that the truth

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Yes.

And media ownership is not in Democratic hands.

[bemildred]

3. When you don't walk your talk, people DO stop listening. nt

[Cha]

73. Oh, President Obama walks his talk..it's

just some people are invested in not seeing.

[woo me with science]

90. The record shows aggressive, proactive advocacy of a corporate agenda

in every policy area important to the One Percent.

This list of Obama's major actions in office does not show the President trying to enact a more liberal agenda and being obstructed. It shows him working aggressively and proactively, over and over again, to install corporatists into his administration and to enact the predatory agenda of the corporate one percent.

Corporate and bank-cozy appointments, over and over again, including major appointments like:

A serial defender of corrupt bankers for the SEC; the architect of "Kill Lists" and supporter of torture, drone wars, and telecom immunity for the CIA; and a Monsanto VP who has lied and been involved in extremely disturbing claims regarding food safety for the FDA. An Attorney General who has not prosecuted a single large bank but wages war against medical marijuana users and *for* strip searches and warrantless surveillance of Americans. Tim Geithner. And now Penny Pritzker.

Bailouts and settlements for corrupt banks (with personal pressure from Obama to attorneys general to approve them),
Refusal by Obama's DOJ to prosecute even huge, egregious examples of bank fraud (i.e, HSBC)
signing NDAA to allow indefinite detention,
"Kill lists" and claiming of the right to assassinate even American citizens without trial
Expansion of wars into several new countries
A renewed public advocacy for the concept of preemptive war
Drone campaigns in multiple countries with whom we are not at war
Proliferation of military drones in our skies
Federal targeting of Occupy for surveillance and militarized response to peaceful protesters
Fighting all the way to the Supreme Court for warrantless surveillance
Fighting all the way to the Supreme Court for strip searches for any arrestee
Supporting and signing Internet-censoring and privacy-violating measures like ACTA
Support for corporate groping and naked scanning of Americans seeking to travel
A new, massive spy center for warrantless access to Americans' phone calls, emails, and internet use
Support of legal immunity for telecoms/warrantless wiretapping
Support of legislation to legalize massive surveillance of Americans
Militarized police departments, through federal grants
Marijuana users and medical marijuana clinics under assault,
Skyrocketing of the budget for prisons.
Failing to veto a bipartisan vote in Congress to gut more financial regulations.
Passionate speeches and press conferences promoting austerity for Americans
Bush tax cuts extended for billionaires, them much of it made permanent
Support for the payroll tax holiday, tying SS to the general fund
Support for the vicious chained CPI cut in Social Security and benefits for the disabled
Social security, Medicare, and Medicaid offered up as bargaining chips in budget negotiations, with No mention of cutting corporate welfare or the military budget
Advocacy of multiple new free trade agreements, including The Trans-Pacific, otherwise known as "NAFTA on steroids."
Support of drilling, pipelines, and selling off portions of the Gulf of Mexico
Corporate education policy including high stakes corporate testing and closures of public schools
Entrenchment of exorbitant for-profit health insurance companies into healthcare, through mandate
Legal assault on union rights of hundreds of thousands of federal workers
New policies of targeting children and first responders in drone campaigns,
New policies of awarding medals for remote drone attacks,
Appointment of private prison executive to head the US Marshal's office
Massive escalation of federal contracts for private prisons under US Marshall's Office

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/101654954

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x380450

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022101960

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/101620852

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022104861

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/101654919

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2185303

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/101748688

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Judge Says Under Law Executive Branch Can Commit Acts That Sure Do Seem Unconstitutional
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[PennsylvaniaMatt]

95. Cha, my friend, you have done it again!!

Right to the point, in as few words as possible!

[bigwillq]

4. Nope

every speech sounds the same.

edited

[samplegirl]

8. I love optimism

and he said he is going to work with or without congress!

[bigwillq]

20. What can he get through without the Congress' approval?

Same speech, different day.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

41. And, on the flip side, how many Repubs can the Senate appoint to his Admin without his approval?

Last edited Wed Jul 24, 2013, 03:26 PM - Edit history (1)

[truebluegreen]

45. Reps? What are Reps?

And have you missed the part where Republicans just don't want the Admin to work? They can do that by not appointing anybody.

I get Republican obstructionism, I just don't get your point.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

49. Thanks. It should have been Repubs (or Republicans). Some have defended Obama's

propensity to appoint Bush-carryovers and other Republicans to high-level positions in his Administration while attributing a phrase you-have-to-keep-your-enemies-closer to Lincoln. But Lincoln did not appoint any confederates to his Administration.

[HiPointDem]

61. to hear the boggers, nothing at all, he's completely powerless before the allmighty dinos.

[Marrah_G]

39. Actions speak louder then words

Frankly over the years he has SAID alot of things but his actions have shown the people he really works for are the big corporations.

If he actually does something, I will stand up and applaud.

[railsback]

6. Speeches are speeches

Can't move forward without Congress, and the Left is making sure Obama doesn't even have the Senate in 2014… and then they'll blame Obama.

[Tugboat]

9. your right

there is too many chiefs and not enough indians in our government, we need a boss and not multiple bosses.

[msongs]

11. "the left"? not likely. as harry truman said, given the choice between a real republican & a fake

one....

[railsback]

32. Quoting Truman is like quoting Jesus

Different times, different mentalities, different structures. Evolution keeps happening, wether people like it or not.

[kentuck]

22. bull

...loney,

[railsback]

27. Of course its bull

loney… if you're guilty.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

29. Here's what I think of the SMALL contingent of Democrats trying to derail this administration.

[railsback]

36. It doesn't take a large contingent

Just a bunch of griping about how Obama sucks, and then the GOP jumping all over that, saying even Democrats think Obama sucks, so vote Republican.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

40. You're right... unfortunately. nt

[truebluegreen]

47. Oh BS.

The "left" aren't the ones who stayed home in 2010. The "left" aren't the ones making lousy deals on the budget and safety nets and taxes. The "left" won't be responsible for losing the Senate in 2014, IF we do, and the best way for us to retain control, and make gains in the House, is to actually act like Democrats, instead of Republican wannabes.

[railsback]

60. If you say so

Will be here Nov. 5, 2014, reading all the griping about how it was Obama's fault.

[truebluegreen]

93. Whatevs, dude.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

7. Yes.

But others will wait on their favorite obscure bloggers to summarize the speech and tell them why they should be pissed.

You know, stubborn people that are part of the problem.

[samplegirl]

10. Couldn't agree more

people who can see no accomplishments.

[DFab420]

12. The replies to this thread are incredibly disappointing....

It's a hell of a speech. President Obama speaking directly to the American people about the trials and tribulations we all face, and the disgust he has with republicans in the house and senate for refusing to do ANYTHING to help.

But you know.."herp derp speechs are just talk blargh "

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

17. They are people that contribute absolutely nothing to political discourse or achievement.

I wouldn't worry too much about them.

They only have their apathy and inaction to blame for the situation that has made them so bitter.

[bigwillq]

18. These are the speeches he makes all the time.

He has scolded the repukes before. He has spoken directly to the American people.
What is so different about this speech than the others? We've heard it all before.

[DFab420]

21. You're right. I mean since when did having a President take to the bully pulpit to argue

for a better middle class ever help anything...

[bigwillq]

23. He can give as many speeches as he wants.

It's just that we heard it all before.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

78. So what would you have him do, then?

It's obvious that the Republicans will just obstruct, obstruct, and obstruct some more.

So you say, Obama should therefore take the case to the American people, utilizing the bully pulpit.

O.K., so then he does that. He calls Republicans out directly on their bullshit.

And still, it's not enough for you.

So, pray tell: what should he be doing, since as you rightly put, he can't do much without congressional action?

[bigwillq]

80. Presidential powers are limited

I didn't say he should take his case to the American people. I said he already has. So many times. It's a speech we heard before.

Not really sure what he can do. That's part of the problem of our political system.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

81. So why do you and others on this thread blame him?

I'm not sure I follow.

Why is everyone blaming him for the unemployment rate, lack of jobs, etc. when the Republicans obstructed every single JOBS bills put on the table?

[bigwillq]

82. I don't put blame on him for the things you listed

because I realize that Congress is part of the problem.

I only said that we heard the speech before.

edited

[tridim]

85. The average American hasn't. We, are political nerds.

Obama is doing his job. Very well I might add.

[babylonsister]

54. You sound like Mitch McConnell. Think about that! nt

[bigwillq]

55. People have told me I looked like a turtle!

[babylonsister]

56. I have no idea

what you look like, and don't care. Did you get some of your material from this?

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/mitch-mcconnell-obama-economic-speech-94671.html

[bigwillq]

58. Nope

I believe what I believe. You can too.

[AngryAmish]

28. .

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="

?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[DFab420]

35. Intelligent, well thought out retort. A real knee slapper.

You must be the life of parties with a cutting wit like yours....

[quinnox]

42. lol

Well, I thought this was funny!

[Cha]

76. But, oh so predictable. they've got their heads

in sand.. yelling "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALALALALALA!!111"

[frylock]

89. so five years in and he's finally come to the realization..

that this bipartisan bullshit isn't working? many of us have been saying that for quite some time.

[malaise]

14. I watched

Pretty good

[GlashFordan]

15. When you speak seemingly every day...

The importance of each speech is diminished. I liked the presidents that just spoke in public every few weeks or so like Clinton.

[leftynyc]

37. What are you babbling about?

How many major speeches has be done in the last 6 months? You sound not just dumb but fox news dumb when you say stuff like this.

[quinnox]

16. it would be nice to see some action for once

Obama has a pattern where he says good things and gives nice speeches, and then there is no follow up whatsoever. It's quite a disconnect, to the point of wondering if he is just going through the motions when giving these speeches. I don't blame people for tuning out at this point.

[DFab420]

24. Obamacare? Auto-Bailout? Student Loan Forgiveness?

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/

http://studentloanhelp.org/blog/obama-student-loan-forgiveness/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act

I dunno.. Seems like he's been doing a hell of a lot..

[quinnox]

25. maybe here and there, a few minor things, but the overall pattern has been consistent

throughout his presidency. He gives great speeches and then....nothing.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

26. "Minor things."

[DFab420]

30. Well good. At least now I know not to take you seriously. Minor things..jesus wept.

[Wednesdays]

59. Not just "Jesus wept"

Jesus facepalmed.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

79. So then, explain the "nothing". Explain why you think he

hasn't done anything.

Is it because Congress has obstructed everything he has tried to do?

What is it?

And while you're at it, here's only 50 of his top accomplishments:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/march_april_2012/features/obamas_top_50_accomplishments035755.php

[tridim]

86. Wow.

[HiPointDem]

62. that student loan 'forgiveness' is a joke.

Here are a few key elements to the Pay As You Earn program:

Lower Payments: Eligible borrowers can have their monthly student loan payments capped at 10% of their discretionary income. To get an idea of what a difference this can make, a borrower with $40,000 in student loan debt at 6.8% APR who makes $50,000 a year would pay about $460 monthly on a standard repayment plan. That same borrower would pay approximately $277 on Pay As You Earn. Compared to other federal repayment plans, Pay As You Earn offers borrowers one of the lowest possible payments.

Student Loan Forgiveness: If a borrower makes consecutive, on-time payments for 20 years, any remaining balance will be forgiven. However, borrowers may need to pay taxes on the forgiven balance.

Not everyone will qualify: What does it take to qualify? Only new borrowers with Federal Direct Loans will qualify. If you took out a federal loan prior to Oct 1, 2007, you are not considered a new borrower. Also, you must have received a Direct loan after Oct 1, 2011. If you’re not sure when you took out your loans, or if your loans are Direct, you can find out by visiting the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS). Also, if your student loan defaults, you won’t qualify for Pay As You Earn, so if you’re struggling with your payments you should reach out to your loan servicer right away.

Total Interest: Since borrowers are making lower payments, the loan will typically take longer to pay off. As a result, borrowers will end up paying more interest on Pay As You Earn than on a standard repayment plan.

jesus christ, this is being touted as visionary or something?

[polichick]

19. msnbc tuned in to the whole thing.

[politicat]

33. Yes, via the WH live stream.

Don't know where you are, but our local daytime seems 95% automated and geared towards high volume, low profit ad buys. I don't think they'd cut an hour of programming (and therefore twenty commercials) if not required.

It was a good speech, and I think I heard actual momentum.

I need to read the transcript to confirm* but I think he put obstruction on notice. Which yes, needed to happen several years ago, but urgent is often the enemy of important.

* I have been uninstalling a ceiling fan, reinstalling a ceiling light and cleaning the fan to move to another room, so the speech didn't have my full attention and I wasn't taking notes.

[Marrah_G]

34. To be honest I stopped listening to him a couple years ago

Once I realized that Governing Obama was a very different person from Campaigning Obama everything just started to sound like "wa wa wa wa wa" (think adults in charlie brown specials)

[quinnox]

38. yup, I imagine that goes for a lot of us

at this point.

[LWolf]

43. I very rarely listen to him speak.

I often will read the transcript.

My bottom line, though, is not what he says in speeches. His speeches are irrelevant. It's what he does. It's the walk, not the talk, that has my attention.

[Myrina]

44. blah blah middle class blah blah opportunity blah blah work with me blah blah greatest country blah

... "The Pep Talk" & it's over-trodden buzzwords all meld into the same mush after this long.

SHOW me, Sir. Stop talking at me and SHOW ME that you give a shit about the "middle class" and the working/nonworking poor.

[woo me with science]

48. + 100000000

http://m.

[Junkdrawer]

53. frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me

"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

-- Willard Duncan Vandiver

[forestpath]

77. +1 Like a summer rerun!

[The Link]

46. I'm sure its another great speech.

I'm not interested in listening to any more pretty bullshit.

[Agschmid]

50. No...

I didn't know he was. Watching the last episode of The Fall and waiting for the glass repair technician to show up.

[JoePhilly]

51. The consensus from the disgruntled is that the President needs to lead by using the

Bully Pulpit, but he should do so, while also not making any speeches.

[babylonsister]

63. Sigh. Damned if he does and doesn't! nt

[JoePhilly]

65. Pretty much. nt

[HiPointDem]

64. he should lead from the bully pulpit -- and back it up with deeds. the skepticism is because

the deeds are lacking (& to some extent because the message has been inconsistent & unfocused)

[JoePhilly]

66. So would getting UE down from 10.2% to 7.6% be inconsistent or unfocused?

How about taking an economy that was losing 700,000+ jobs a month and turning it into an economy that has been creating more that 100,000 jobs a month?

Are those not deeds that help the middle class?

[HiPointDem]

67. after 5 years? i don't think it's that great of an accomplisment, especially considered that

7.6 is still high for the postwar era & the UE figure elides:

1. a huge percentage of folks who are for various reasons outside the population that the UE figures are calculated on;

2. declining wages in this 'recovery' after 30 years of flat wages, which demonstrate that the labor market isn't tightening at all, in realit (see 1);

3. increased levels of part-time & casual work

4. decline in benefited work

[JoePhilly]

68. You can complain about how the UE number is calculated but you can't

dispute that its calculated today the same exact way as it always has been. So complaining about how its calculated is a weak approach for disputing the improvement.

Whether you like it or not, President Obama, through ACTIONS, stopped and reversed the trend in which UE was INCREASING at an extremely dangerous rate.

btw ... your math isn't very good. We hit the high of UE in OCT of 2009 (almost a year into Obama's first term), and we hit 7.6% around March of this year. Obama hasn't even been President for 5 years. Which means the drop from 10.2% to 7.6% took about 3.5 years or so, not 5 years as you claim. That's actually pretty fast given the fact that it had risen more than about 4% in a year and a half. Naturally you'd miss that.

This is an actual DEED. An ACCOMPLISHMENT. It helps the middle class.

[HiPointDem]

69. i wasn't complaining about how it's calculated. you seem to have missed the point.

i was noting that the theoretically reduced UE rate hides a low & still declining laborforce participation rate, a great deal of which is unemployment by another name, but not included in the UE stats.




i meant from the beginning of obama's term, obviously, and i'm not sure why you'd calculate from the high point of unemployment rather than the beginning of his term when touting obama's accomplishments.



by the same measure, reagan was a miracle worker because UE didn't hit a high until late 82 & it only took him a year to get it down to low 7%s.




and i didn't do any 'math' in my post.

[JoePhilly]

72. Its clear you didn't do any math.

What you are saying is that although we've always used UE3 as a primary indicator of the health of the economy, we should now reinterpret it.

And I start from the decline because the first part of 2009 was required to STOP THE CRASH. Which by the way, is its own accomplishment ... another you ignore.

I'm curious as to why you think the somewhat quicker recovery for Reagan makes the recovery under Obama any less of an achievement. It does not. It more than likely reflects that fact that Democrats under reagan were interested in helping improve the economy, while the GOP under Obama is not.

But that is neither here nor there.

There has been a significant recovery under Obama, no matter how much you'd wish otherwise.

[HiPointDem]

96. it's clear you're single-mindedly dedicated to misinterpreting the relevance of labor force

participation rates in this conversation. labor force participation is still declining & is getting close to the level it was before women entered the workforce in large numbers back in the 70s.



the economy is not improving, & cheerleading won't make it so.

[treestar]

70. Amen!

You have as is proverbially said, nailed it!

[Cali_Democrat]

71. You can't take the disgruntled seriously

They're like small children you pat on the head while saying "good boy"...but you really don't pay them any attention.

They are to be ignored.

[olddots]

57. I always listen to him because he speaks well

I wish he could stop backing down to the parasites and get real .

[forestpath]

74. Didn't watch. Heard it all before.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

75. They never do. And then we complain that Obama isn't

properly utilizing the bully pulpit, even though the guy is out there nearly every day splitting his spleen. No coverage means that it didn't happen, though.

[Junkdrawer]

87. Here's what I wrote about the Bully Pulpit awhile back...

Make people believe you're REALLY on their side and they'll tune into Fireside Chats.

Use it as a spin session to defend DINO policies and maybe his wife and kids will be regulars.

Lincoln was right: people are smarter than most politicians think. Just because we voted to keep Romney out of office doesn't mean we swallowed the speeches hook, line, and sinker.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2852677

[Cha]

84. You can always tell how inspiring and encouraging PBO's

speeches are by how much the gop and every other Obama hater comes out to whine about it.

This one at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.. was Excellent!

[PoliticAverse]

88. Text of Obama's speech...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/24/remarks-president-economy-knox-college-galesburg-il

[nadinbrzezinski]

92. Thanks, I KNOW I should read it...

Will make it into a PDF in a sec in the IPAD.

[nadinbrzezinski]

91. Sorry, we are very busy with our local version of

the young and the restless, city hall edition.

The local scandal, which is also a national scandal (tempest in teapots usually do not go international, but usually do not involve former congress critters), is firmly on phase two, he said, they said phase.

So I will have to catch to that speech in print later.

[PoliticAverse]

94. Video of Obama's speech....

[xmas74]

97. I didn't hear the first one

but I heard his second today. He came to my town and spoke at the local university. I tried to get a ticket but was unable-they ran out. A few locals later bragged about getting tickets and tearing them up so "no one was there to support him". Whatever.

I heard the crowd was big and that his speech was good. He addressed an innovative program that the college offers along with other things.