I didn't like the speech

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And that is perfectly fine.

You don't have to like every speech the President gives and you don't have to give up hope because some criticism seems to be on target.

When he was running for President he made it clear that he wasn't running for Messiah and wouldn't be pitching perfect games on consecutive nights. Well his opening game throw confirmed that.

Sometimes we can be hyper sensetive to critcism.

My opinion is that Deepwater is causing more angst than people realize because we don't have confidence that in August that this is going to be over.

In any case the President has a strong learning curve. I think that he needs to go bigger on the issue and call for a mobilization of the entire country to start moving away from gas for cars.

But it doesn't lessen my support for him because I know that he is not stuck on any ego trip and continues to listen to a wide range of smart people and is able to get the best out of people.

If the speech was too understated and cautious he will address it in time.

The funniest comment I read on DU today was "He doesn't get it". Nobody gets everything but it would be difficult to find anyone who 'gets' more of what is going on than the President. In fact the problem may be is that he is over processing and taking too much in.

In any case I may not agree with every move he makes during the day but I know that at the end of the day he is going to be bringing it home. And I think he's cool with that too.

Here's what I wanted him to do:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/grantcart/303