Since I'm laid up here for a few days I'm getting to watch lots of TV.
I thought he acted somewhat humbled but he still utterly refuted the assertion that any of this election was about a rebuke of his policies. I guess he's just positioning himself as best he can. I hope he realizes the truth.
One statement that he made which struck a nerve was that he believed "most americans don't have a core ideology, they just go about their day to day business....as long as things progress"
I think he's wrong about that. I think many people have so much going on in their day to day lives, that their core beliefs and actions upon them are not always given priority, but they are there (good or bad).
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--Me smell Mohican burning
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--Must be me!!!
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With all due respect, Mr. President, I most definitely DO have a core ideology. But unlike yours, it isn't based on a Marxist foundation with a light mix of racism.
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One statement that he made which struck a nerve was that he believed "most americans don't have a core ideology, they just go about their day to day business....as long as things progress"
There are a lot of things to comment on. I'm only going to comment on one. " . . . as long as things progress." I think it is implicit in this that Obama thinks we all look to the government as the solver of our problems. That the government is the source of progress. The government is the pace setter and the one that makes it all happen. That is definitely NOT how I see things.
I think it is pretty arrogant and a little nieve to think of government as the source of progress. I look at my life and I ask how much of what I have built of my life that I can rightfully account as something the government has created or advanced. The health of my children? Don't think so, unless you want to talk about the clean municipal water supply in the category of government. The good job that I have? I don't think so. The good education I have? I don't think so. The good house I live in? Maybe. I suppose the building codes kept the builders honest and prevented their otherwise adulterating the quality of the house in ways not readily observable on closing day. I am surrounded by people who don't have things as good as I do, and there is much more involved in this than just my material circumstances. I don't think the government is the cause of these differences between me and others who live a couple hundred yards away from me in my neighborhood. Personal choices. Deliberative thought. Self-control. Deferral of rewards. These have nothing to do with government. If we have to wait on government for "progress" and improved lives we are in trouble.
Also to suggest that the gov is some detached entitiy that we should look to for answers, in a perfect world, would seem a very distorted view. We (theoretically) are the government. It shouldn't only contain people that are there for a life-long career of hyper mediocrity. No incumbant who lost should ever be mourned
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--Must be me!!!
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I did not get to watch it live, but did DVR it and watched it when I got home. My first thought was; He looked like a kid who got scolded and was pouting because he felt unjustly punished. And after watching the whole speech, it was obvious he was still in the blame game. He said several times he was responsible, then pointed the finger at Bush and tried to explain away his poor policies as “emergencies”. Something else that stuck was his tone that we, the unwashed masses, are not enlightened enough to understand how great he was. His statement about the election being a result of the economy, not his policies was very telling. Over all, I felt it was the same old Obama, except he was not going to accept anything less than an American Omission that we are the problem, because he can do no wrong. It was also obvious that he did not take the critical questions very well. Especially the one that was asked if Obama felt this election was a referendum on his policies. Reason I say that is because he keep on alluding to the notion that Americans are too scared to understand, or that He, himself had to do the impossible to save us all. Humble is not a word I would use to explain his speech. He tried to hide his arrogance in a humble tone, one that he would immediately back track to outside sources being the problem, never any of his policies.
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I think he's wrong about that. I think many people have so much going on in their day to day lives, that their core beliefs and actions upon them are not always given priority, but they are there (good or bad).
I also believe that people are honing their fundamental belief systems because of the amount of information being culled and released on a daily and hourly basis.
The advent of the 24 hour news networks has had it upsides. No longer are people forced to rely on the slants provided by their local newspapers.
His Excellence underestimates the American people...probably the biggest understatement I've posted here in a long time.
I find it arrogant that now he’s talking about reaching across the isle and working together. I don’t think he’s going to budge on his socialist agendas, even though his party is telling him he’s going to have to lean towards the middle like Clinton did and had another run in the White House!
He hasn't shown an interest to listening to anyone but himself!
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