Obama's Speech

Ok, I'm surprised Saden has not started a thread yet on Obama's speech last night. I'll have to say the guy can give a speech and did a great job there was even a point or two where I agreed with what he was saying. One of the main things I agreed with was not giving Corps. tax breaks which ship jobs over sea's. Obama though has flawed thought on how to pay for his some 830 billion in new programs. He said he would pay for all of this buy cutting current spending and reviewing everything that we currently spend. The problem is allot of the current spending is tied up in bills and is allready spent. Then he has to get congress to agree with his cuts and change bills and also congress will have to cut their pork projects which gives them their power back home. So what are your thought about what he said last night.

This is not a knock on Obama, it's a knock on politics in general:

Isn't it funny that EVERY Nomination speech talks of a small town plant shutting down, a kid that can't afford to go to school, and raising teachers salaries. Democrat or Republican it doesn't matter. We could go back to JFK and he probably spoke about these things.

One other thing Obama said was something about hard working people and minimum wage in the same sentense. I don't think there is a large % of hard working people making min. wage that have been in the work force for any amount of time.

I haven't watched the speech yet.

Great speech and great pre-speech video. The only thing I didn't like was how Obama uses that Southern drawl/preacher voice (a la MLK) in his speeches. It strikes me as fake and too self-aware. He doesn't talk like that in his everyday voice. But, that is nitpicking. 9 out of 10.

I haven't watched the speech yet.
I would have thought you would have been glued to the TV and it did come on after the game. I got depressed twice last night.LOL

One other thing Obama said was something about hard working people and minimum wage in the same sentense. I don't think there is a large % of hard working people making min. wage that have been in the work force for any amount of time.


How much you make rarely is a reflection as to how hard you work. In my experiences the more you make equals more responisiblty less actually grind out work.

Plus you can work your ass off everyday making min. wage but if there is no opportunity to advance, it don't mean jack how hard you worked. The hard work simply keeps you employed.

How much you make rarely is a reflection as to how hard you work. In my experiences the more you make equals more responisiblty less actually grind out work.

Plus you can work your ass off everyday making min. wage but if there is no opportunity to advance, it don't mean jack how hard you worked. The hard work simply keeps you employed.

In my experience the harder you work the more opportunity to advance. I think there is definitely a correlation.

In my experience the harder you work the more opportunity to advance. I think there is definitely a correlation.


You are missing my point if you live in butt fuck, middle america in a town with one stop light you can work your hands to the bone and there is still no jobs to advance up in.

Finally manged to to watch the speech. Pretty good speech...laid out his plan for change, beat up on McCain...all in all I give it two thumbs up.