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Obama makes his comeback

by smkovalinsky | September 10, 2009 at 04:33 am

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From Huffington Post, journalist Jacob Heilbrun states the case for an Obama victory and comeback perhaps better than any of the others who are singing Obama's prasies this morning:

Will this do? For the past month, Democrats have been wringing their hands over President Obama's supposedly lackluster performance, while Republicans have become increasingly cocky about derailing his presidency. But Obama's speech Wednesday should put to rest any illusions that he or his presidency are on the ropes.
Obama didn't simply come out swinging. He also made the single most persuasive case for government intervention in decades in the final section of his speech. He put an end to the Reagan era dogma that America's biggest foe is government itself. With this speech, Obama has begun to fulfill the promise of his presidency. Obama, you could say, found his sea legs. He's ushering in a fundamental philosophical shift that could set the stage for several decades of a revived and modern liberal movement, while the right spins off into noisy irrelevance.

Obama's references to Ted Kennedy were moving, but he made it abundantly clear that he wasn't simply pursuing an old-time liberal vision of big government as an end in itself. Instead, Obama explained that there are times in America's history when the free market has failed. To avoid a catastrophic failure today he had to intervene at the outset of his presidency to bail out the economy. Recall that both the Republican right and progressives chastised Obama then for either doing too much or not enough. They were wrong. The economy stabilized -- and Obama gets the credit for making the right call.

(Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/impact-man-obamas-comebac_b_281558.html)

I think it is important for Obama's critics to understand the times we are in: They are getting far worse, and paradoxically, this will serve to increase the power of Obama's presidencey.

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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 04:46 on September 10th, 2009

That's why I find this Huffington Post article totally biased. While Obama made another great speech, I would not agree that the economy has stabilized, far from it. Just ask the 10% or so unemployed in the US and the 8.6% in Canada.

This article is wishful thinking on part of the author from the Huffington Post.

While the speech last night was another great oratory performance, I did not see the vision and details of a Health Reform Plan.

There are still four versions of it floating around Congress. I also think that the speech didn't do much to gain bipartisan support.

There will be an initial bounce for Obama, which is normal after a President addresses the nation, other than that I really think not much has changed.

Thank you for posting.

QueensHart

at 04:59 on September 10th, 2009

Yes, he is nice to look at and he is a good speaker. So What! Look at what has already happened. The democrats just got to look at the Wizard of OZ again. His voice is now ringing not so well with many people who are not Republicans

They will try to ram it thru while they bask in the pink glow of his speech which he did not write..nor has he written the bill . Which version will go thru with Pelosi?

Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 05:05 on September 10th, 2009

As I said QH, there are still four versions and other than Tort nothing was added to the debate last night. I truly expected the President to come up with his outline for healthcare. Details are still sadly lacking.

lounsbury

at 06:30 on September 10th, 2009

Comeback?

Actually Obama delivered an average speech, not at all different from the previous 28 he gave on health care, and he failed to do anything at a time when it was either a successful hail Mary or end game. 29 speeches if you count him talking right now to a room full of people who agree with him.

lounsbury

at 09:08 on September 10th, 2009

Castro you are AMAZING! You got EVERYTHING exactly backwards

Roy C

at 12:40 on September 10th, 2009

LOL.

The rebellion that we have going today began under Bush, with the Dubai Ports Deal, the Harriet Myers candidacy for the Supreme Court and the two attempted illegal alien amnesty bills.

That lit the torch.

The Republican elite has no balls and has, in effect, died.

Now, it is the Democrats turn.

The idiots thought that they would get away with the very things that the independents and left- and right-of-center folk objected to.

Obama's vision is Rev Wright's, Bernadine Dohrn's. She was Michelle's best friend. And Michelle was the one who really liked Van Jones.

This is all what the old doctors used to call "laudable pus", when pus is white because it is winning the war against infection.

That is what is happening.

The elite Repubes are dead and dying and now it is the Democrats' elites turn to have their heads on the chopping blocks.

TIMBER!

You have to say that before you down an elitist because, although they are, in fact, Lilliputians, they think of themselves as "Bromdinagians", the giants of Gulliver's Travels.

Actually, their souls are small, but their egos are immense towers, veritable Towers of Babel, Righteousness, and "Inspiration".

The bigger those egos come, the harder they fall. :)

If an immense, over-sized ego falls in the forest and no one hears it, is there a noise?