Isn't it good to listen to a President 'live' on TV address the nation ...

[lpbk2713]

and you know you aren't listening to some mentally deficient
con man give a weak attempt to deliver a load of bullshit?


It was a long eight years.

[bbernardini]

1. But...but...TELEPROMPTER! TELEPROMPTER! WHARRGARBL!

[RoccoR5955]

24. Come on, with the freakin' teleprompter already...

Bush couldn't read the damn thing, even if they spelled things phonetically!

[Windy]

2. Agreed!!! nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. He's brilliant!

Answering questions, explaining things so everyone who isn't deluded can understand. Love him taking it back to the people--citing all those heart breaking cases.

[snappyturtle]

4. Wonderful! I feel almost as if I've been wrapped in a warm blanket

and told that everything will be OK.

[Lost-in-FL]

5. My Satellite just went out.

due to a short power outage and It will take 20 minutes to get back up. :cry:

[lpbk2713]

6. I haven't checed but it might be streaming on C-SPAN.

:shrug:

[Lost-in-FL]

23. I am hoping I can watch it later tonight.

Thanks.

[lpbk2713]

7. He is relaxed. He has poise and confidence.

He's not stammering and stuttering. And he's not giving rambling generic answers to questions.

When he gets done you aren't saying to yourself "... huh?".

[dysfunctional press]

8. apparently nobody's paying attention to what he's saying...?

or more important- NOT saying.

things like...PUBLIC OPTION. :grr:

[babylonsister]

9. You must have missed this, and has anyone asked specifically?

From yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=8538254

Obama Demands: The Bill I Sign Must Include Public Option

[Fire1]

11. He addressed that at the very beginning!!! nt

[dysfunctional press]

13. what did he say...? because i definitely didn't hear it...and that's what i was listening for.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. HE IS SPEAKING IN COMPLETE SENTENCES!!!!

PARAGRAPHS, EVEN!!!!

And he's making sense.

Having a good time.

Not making faces or wiggling around like he has a rabid weasel in his pants.

This is OUR PRESIDENT!!!!!!

We won.........................

[Riley18]

12. Honesty and empathy in one sweet package. We are so lucky he is our president.

[RandomThoughts]

14. He may not know it,

But he lost alot of the support of about 70% of the population, many that are Democrats, with the use of a stupid phrase... Again...

So stupid.

The phrase doesn't bother everyone, for instance it requires fear to be bothered by such comments, but millions that are more fragile, and they are not all freepers, will only have heard that comment, and it will have upset them.


The rest of the speech was ok.

[babylonsister]

15. Really? Please share the comment. nt

[DawgHouse]

16. Is this like the secret word on Pee Wee's Playhouse?

Or is more like a whistle that only dogs can hear?

[RandomThoughts]

18. Not sure, its just something many people fear. Which is stupid also.

And in that they attach meaning to it, doing that it takes them off the train of thought of the topic of health care and puts them into the thought of religious thoughts. And many religious thoughts, for many people, still have fear not victory as some of the themes.

I never watched Pee Wee's playhouse, and know so many metaphors for people as animals, that you would have to explain more what you mean, if I did not answer your question with the other paragraph. I also do not follow 'pets' doctrine, or the other uses of different groups as animals if that is the intent of the metaphor. So not sure of the meaning of your metaphor.

For example, the whistle could be quiet wars, it could be thunder dome, it could be electric fencing. could be code, or just having an ideological primer on a topic. There are lots of uses of that metaphor.

[DawgHouse]

20. I find you very entertaining.

Random Thoughts is a perfect moniker for you.

On Pee Wee's Playhouse, there was a secret word on every episode. Every time a member of the cast said the secret word, the kids at home were supposed to scream at the top of their lungs. :)

[RandomThoughts]

22. On the Pee Wee comment, I understand there are groups that could do that with a religion.

There are some people that want to spin people up using a religious doctrine the people they target believe in. The irony of it, is if the religion is actually correct, then the people doing it are fulfilling part of the religion.

So one religion could learn the projected future of another, and then try and make that seem real by doing parts of it, and in doing that they, without belief, fulfill parts of that projected future.

However I don't think President Obama said what he said for those reasons, if he did it would be really really stupid, I think it is just not a known issue to him, maybe because he also does not have the fear in the same way many do not, or maybe because he knows a phrase is not his heart. Or because he hasn't thought about it. Notably he used it in a slightly different context also, so it was better then the last time he used it, but millions wont think about any of those things.

Doesn't matter to me, I support programs that make progress for good works, if they don't, I don't support them. Just like most other people. And I support people that do good works. I still think President Obama and the Democrats are trying to make change for the better, if they don't they will fail.

:shrug:

As far as me being entertaining, I will take that as a compliment, any sharing of joy is a good thing.

[RoccoR5955]

25. I dunno, but these days, my religious thoughts are of the Flying Spaghetti Monster..

I'm a Pastafarian. May you be touched by His noodly appendages.

[RandomThoughts]

27. I reject the Flying Spaghetti Monster, because of what he represents.

Although I accept the probable goodwill your comment was meant to impart.

I also sorta like ideas of some pirate metaphors, but not all.

And I like my interpretation of Narwhals more then Cthulu.

:) :hug:

[greenbird]

19. What phrase are you referring to?

[lpbk2713]

21. I'm trying to figure that out too.

:shrug:

[tavalon]

28. What stupid phrase?

[DawgHouse]

17. Yes, very refreshing!

[BREMPRO]

26. he's an honest and honorable public servant- a rare breed in politics today.

I felt like he was working for us.
such a contrast from his predecessor Dopey the Corporate Shill.