So the President is speaking in the oval office..

[butterfly77]

Now why is there so much talk about expectations by the so called media? How is this venue suppose to affect his speaking ability? Is the room suppose to change what he is going to say?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. This is his first oval office speech.

He's been holding it back for something big.

[hedgehog]

2. People might actually see him speak. He's made a lot of recent speeches during

the day time at various locations only to see the speeches drop into the Twilight Zone. They got shown on the net live video, then it was off to the next missing white girl story.

[RKP5637]

7. Yeah, I get so tired of the missing white girl stories. The MSM is pure crap. Many

things fall into the Twilight Zone.

[Robb]

3. I may be the last DUer alive who read the subject line

...and was expecting a variation on the brazillion joke.

[dchill]

5. Nope. You're not.

...with a parrot on his shoulder...

:)

[jdlh8894]

8. And wearing a sweater

with a blazing fire behind him?:evilgrin:

[Frustratedlady]

4. What difference does it make? Good grief, isn't there anything he can do right?

I realize they are trying to bring him down to GW's level, but don't they realize how petty and bitchy they are sounding?

Enough! Let the guy do his job.

[butterfly77]

11. It doesn't matter what he says..

they are just looking for something in the speech to criticize. Asshole ed henry is on right now talking about how he has to walk a fine line.

It doesn't matter because its all about who can make some money or who will lose some money due to the oil spill and they will continue to act as though he caused the spill the oil was there and killing fish regardless.

Some of the same people who are complaining about their livelihood were the same people who said let American car companies fail,while they boosted up foreign companies like Toyota.

Everytime I see one of these fishermen they tell us they work for a livin or they don't want handouts,now who are they insinuating doesn't..

[Auggie]

6. This is an incredible opportunity to rally the country around alternate fuels

and greener technologies.

I haven't any idea what we'll really hear tonight though. But I can hope, right?

[hedgehog]

10. If you're going to hope, go for the big one:

" And they are going to come out with a large Gulf recovery act, because the oil and gas industry has been dredging. We have disappearing barrier islands. For 40 years down there, it’s abused the wetlands.

This is a turning point. There is an appetite on Capitol Hill for Gulf recovery act. The Mississippi River is going to have to be redirected into the marshlands. And BP and Transocean and other, you know, operations, Cameron, other companies are going to have to pay up to $10 billion and $15 billion for breaking national acts."


http://bluewavenews.com/2010/06/12/mississippi-river-could-be-diverted-to-flush-bps-oil-from-gulf-wetlands/


Cross your fingers and your toes, I know I am!

[butterfly77]

12. The media seems to believe that ..

he makes speeches every week and gets bashed day in and day out..

[blogslut]

9. Customarily, a televised speech made from the Oval Office is seen as quite serious

Use of the Oval Office for television broadcasts is rare and reserved for occasions with a sense of gravity, as when a young President Kennedy presented news of the Cuban missile crisis, or President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster or President George W. Bush addressing the nation the evening of September 11, 2001...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_office">link

[lunatica]

13. Bush addressed the nation on the evening of 9/11 a year later

On the first 9/11 he was zig zagging all over the country in his own words, "gettin' outa harms way"

[butterfly77]

15. The pundits state it as if..

he needs to do it everytime a situation arises at the rate things are happening then,he should be doing on per month so that they can have something to talk about. Everytime he makes a speech they seem to think they need to tell us what he meant in their words.

[blogslut]

16. I know it seems like that

But he actually did give a short address that night:

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010911-16.html

[butterfly77]

14. And that is another thing...

What is this young president garbage I keep hearing the pundits use when talking about Obama and some add inexperienced.

Weren't Kennedy and Clinton young also? Were all of the other Presidents' experienced when they took office,they didn't know what in the hell they would be dealing with either..

[Lucian]

17. Was he getting his daily briefing?

Sorry. I thought you were going with a joke there...