*Tonight, President Obama gave a semi-State of the Union address to both houses of Congress. I was on the road for the speech, but read a bit about it and apparently it was came across well... or even better than well. Health care reform and "let's not give up" seemed to be big themes. Here's the text. Those who saw it, thoughts?
*Hillary is killin' it around the globe. She's a star. That said, her comments about pushing human rights discussions in China onto the backburner while we figure out the economic situation were dead wrong. Now, more than ever, is the time to press the Chinese into action. They still need us more than we need them, so why not do some arm twisting to get the Chinese into (at least) the 20th century?
*It is my mom's birthday today. I arrived back in La Grande for classes at EOU and to celebrate with her. Happy birthday Carol!
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i dug obama's speech but the standing ovations were too much. every 15 words the entire room would stand and clap and then sit down...
i'm also amazed at how wonderful everything can sound when it comes out of obama's mouth, but i'm curious how much is actually possible. it seemed like every solution he brought up, he'd found a way for it to aid everyone and i find that a bit unrealistic. we shall see.
Funny that you mention the ovations, because that was a topic of a couple jokes today on NPR. It must have been excessive.
He has a way with words, just like Washington, DC has a way with messing up policy. I will be impressed if he even gets one of his big policy ideas (in addition to getting out of Iraq) passed (think health care, economic, or green energy reform).
That said, I sure hope he succeeds, we need it!
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