OBAMA TELLS DEMS: 'I'M NOT TIRED; I'M JUST GETTING STARTED'

[kpete]

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OBAMA TELLS DEMS: 'I'M NOT TIRED; I'M JUST GETTING STARTED'.... For all of President Obama's high-minded rhetoric, policy remarks, and bipartisan appeals, it's nice for Dems to occasionally hear the president put on his partisan hat once in a while. And his remarks last night in San Francisco at a DNC fundraising reception suggested Obama is hardly blind to the larger political context of his presidency.

"t's important for all of us to remember, even though it's been almost a year , what was happening in this country when we walked through that front door," the president said. "Because, you know, people seem to have a sort of selective memory. People seem to forget, they seem to think that suddenly I was sworn in and there was this big financial crisis.

"So let's just do a little walk down memory lane. We were facing an economic crisis unlike any that we've seen in our times. We were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Our financial system was on the brink of collapse. Economists of every political stripe we're saying we might be slipping into the next Great Depression. And that's why working with Nancy Pelosi and working with Harry Reid we passed boldly and swiftly a Recovery Act that's made a difference in the lives of families and communities in every corner of the country."

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"I hope that the election was not just a fad," the president said. "I hope that people didn't just think, 'Well, that's done, that was fun, I really liked those posters.' I need you guys to understand that what we're trying to do is hard. And I want you to be excited by that. I want you to be energized by that. Because if it was easy it would have already been done. If it was easy it wouldn't have been worth all the effort to get here.

"And I want everybody to know who are standing in the way of progress: I'm not tired. I'm just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me -- keep it coming, we're going to get this done."

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[lame54]

1. It's about time...

He can start by giving the finger to all the repug(and Dem) obstructionists - Time to leave the pointless bi-partisan quest behind

[WileEcoyote]

2. I sensed a little Richard Pryor sctick in his words

Which is good.

[JDPriestly]

3. Great speech. Can't wait to hear all of it.

But I still have two criticisms of the Obama administration

1) He needs an economic team that is closer to Main Street than to Wall Street, much, much, much closer to Main Street than Geithner, Summers and Bernanke.

2) He needs to stand taller for human rights, to prosecute the torturers, to close Guantanamo faster and to make sure that every defendant gets a fair trial in which he or she can confront and cross-examine his or her accusers.

[ProfessorPlum]

4. Dammit, Obama, WE'RE with YOU. But are YOU with US?

Great speech, excellent rhetoric. But, come on. let's go and do something about medicare for all, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo, military spending, regulating the banks and the street, something more about civil liberties.

NOBODY wants the people involved in the election to become jaded. But give us something more to hold on to.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

5. Looks to me his new accolade has given him the motivation he needed. As he says none of this will be

easy. It's all about the amount of determination folks have to make it happen.

[quiet.american]

6. K&R nt