Obama asks country to help make tomorrow better

[onehandle]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON – Saying America has a history of doing what it takes to make a better tomorrow, President Barack Obama is calling on a country climbing out of its worst economic slump in decades to summon that spirit again this holiday season.

"This is not the hardest Thanksgiving America has ever faced. But as long as many members of our American family are hurting, we've got to look out for one another," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, released for Thanksgiving.

"As long as many of our sons and daughters and husbands and wives are at war, we've got to support their mission and honor their service," Obama added. "And as long as many of our friends and neighbors are looking for work, we've got to do everything we can to accelerate this recovery and keep our economy moving forward."

In the weekly Republican message, Georgia Rep.-elect Austin Scott characterized the 85-member incoming freshman class as a "new breed of leaders for a new majority and a new Congress" and said they stand ready to turn around the country.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama

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So we're on our own.

[NightWatcher]

1. Country asks Obama to help make tomorrow better

haha silly us

[JTFrog]

8. Ask not....

And all that.

:eyes:

[pampango]

37. Well received in its day, but not now. n/t

[ixion]

14. Yep... to tweak a quote from Animal House:

We f'd up. We trusted him.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Seems to me to be an ill considered remark.

What you've got today is largely a result of government policy so is he saying that has been perpetually wrong even under his own adminstration ?

There times when if you've nothing cast iron to say its better to keeps your lips buttoned. As far as I'm aware the American pubic don't give misguided Nobel prizes for intent.

[jaxx]

3. No, what he said was

"And as long as many of our friends and neighbors are looking for work, we've got to do everything we can to accelerate this recovery and keep our economy moving forward."

We, as in all of us. Our government and we the people.

[onehandle]

4. '85-member incoming freshman' comprised of mostly Libertarian-Teabaggers.

We're on our own.

[jaxx]

7. LOL on that I'll partially agree.

Those teabaggers will be busy fighting the pork lovers in their own party.

[treestar]

40. It appears to me you have a problem with our system of government

We always are. We are grown ups. OUr government is of the people, representative. You're looking for a benign dictator. Won't happen here.

[awoke_in_2003]

44. "OUr government is of the people, representative"...

thanks, I needed a good laugh.

[Yeahyeah]

5. He should name Howard Dean Vice President then do a Palin.

This idea is how I help make tomorrow better.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. I hope for the sake of this nation that Obama is listening to his

own damn words for once.

[BlueJac]

9. In a dream world......

what is he talking about? Shit we didn't want endless war, outsourced jobs, unregulated banks and wall street, followed by hugh bailouts and the cutting of social services. Some one wake this man up from the dream world he is in!

[Nite Owl]

10. I thought that when we elected him

that was what we were doing, what we hoped for anyway. He has to do his part and stop the talking about making up with corporations and the Chamber of Commerce and listen to us. So far all we have gotten a deaf ear to most things.

[AnneD]

11. I HATE TO SOUND CYNICAL.....

by while the hell should we, so the corporation's can steal from us again. Hell I want to enrich mine and my children's and grand children's lives, not WS and the bankers pockets. I am tired of being admonished to be a good little Nazi.

[ixion]

12. How about you stop the War on We, the People first?

That would be a fantastic place to start in making tomorrow better. Right now, tomorrow ain't lookin' so good.

[JTFrog]

13. What? We're supposed to do something?

You mean we can't just come home and turn on the news and hear about everything being fixed already?

[Phlem]

26. What, pray tell, should we do

That we haven't done already.

I've given, I've educated family and friends, I work and when I'm done I babysit our little one so my wife can work and and keep out heads above water. Hopium can only get you so far. The nation overwhelmingly got him and his buddies jobs outside of vote rigging.

And excuse me but I hep my fellow man every fucking day, not just one day or month out of the year.

So really, we're barely hanging on and he looks like he's going to have a great f'ing thanksgiving, and I should be happy???!!

jeeeeezzzzzuuuuuuuz

The color of the sky in my world is not pink with flying elephants.

-p

[JTFrog]

27. Hopium?

'Nuff said.

:eyes:

[Phlem]

28. That doesn't

even make any sense but whatever I guess you got me.

I guess serious rebuttals are far and few when faced with the truth, especially when the truth hurts.

:hurts:

-p

[JTFrog]

31. How do you have a serious discussion about "Hopium"?

The "truth" around here tends to change from day to day in order to undermine a sitting Democratic President. Truths such as; the President has done nothing while everyone else is too busy dealing with the shit sandwich that Bush served the country. :eyes:

[Phlem]

33. Alright then,

looks like you've got it wrapped up, the president can do no wrong even though he has.

How do you have a serious discussion with someone who thinks like that.

-p

[JTFrog]

36. More hyperbole.

Believe it or not, there are middle grounds between the two extremes of he has done nothing good and he can do nothing wrong.

You're obviously only interested in having a conversation where you insist on the former and then inject some random bullshit and pretend the other person thinks that.

You lost me at Hopium.

Again, 'Nuff said.

:shrug:

[Phlem]

38. Dude

Were you living under a rock for the last 2 years?

Try opening your eyes.

Right, cause I want Obama to fail that's why I voted for him and all I'm interested in is talking about his failures and me wanting to him to fail.

Speaking if hyperbole.

You must be sitting pretty cause I know a lot of people who don't have the means to wait for him to actually become president.

'Nuff said.

:nopity:

-p

[JTFrog]

39. .

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hyperbole

[Phlem]

41. Ahh I see

the conversation has gone from taking care of the least among us to making sure your ego is in tact.

OK then.

-p

[The Straight Story]

53. We are supposed to vote for dems to change things. We did our job, their turn...(nt)

[JTFrog]

55. Phew.

Is that how they got it so good in places like, oh say, France? Yo, Pierre, you already voted. Go sit your silly ass down and see what they are gonna do to us next on the telly!

:shrug:

[rug]

15. "we've got to support their mission"

Says who?

[ixion]

17. Yeah, exactly. I have no respect at all for the so-called 'mission'

and am not wildly impressed by the people carrying it out, either.

[Bragi]

23. I find in his war message an attempt to shift blame

He is quoted as saying this: "As long as many of our sons and daughters and husbands and wives are at war, we've got to support their mission and honor their service..."

It actually seems, from that odd phrasing, as though many of our sons and daughters, etc. decided to go off to war, so we must support them.

It's as though the fact they are at war has nothing to do with his own failure/refusal to stop the war and bring them home.

That deliberate or inadvertent attempt to suggest a transfer of responsibility fails big time with me.

The President is responsible for the escalation of the pointless and unpopular Afghanistan war, not the soldiers who are fighting it.

[rug]

25. Bullseye.

[Bragi]

29. It's like he's in a politically dissociative state

Interestingly, it's a condition often associated with post-traumatic stress disorders.

[Iowa]

46. Excellent observation...

That line appears to be deliberately dishonest, self-serving, and manipulative. He is a master at that. Unfortunately, only as small percentage can see through it.

[Catherina]

51. +1000 n/t

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[Haole Girl]

18. I agree with him on this

This is what Thanksgiving should be about.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/11/20/2647892/using-her-last-paycheck-woman.html

[benfranklin1776]

19. He should "help" by demanding the Rethugs quit blocking the extension of unemployment

And when they inevitably block the effort "help" some more by exercising some leadership and repeatedly hammer them for their sociopathic willingness to let people starve and then use any means necessary to get the extension through Congress. That would be some real tangible concrete help to suffering people.

[MannyGoldstein]

20. Thanks to Obama, I'm absolutely about to make tomorrow better

for the Predator Class. His "Deficit Commission" wants to cut my Social Security so the rich can have even more tax cuts, after Obama and Congress extend their current tax cuts.

[lunatica]

21. It sure would be nice Sir, if you forced mortgage companies to honor your loan modification

program. I'm about to lose my home because first they said they received the paperwork and a week later they told me didn't receive it.

[Bragi]

22. Moved by author

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4628853&mesg_id=4628909

[Kingofalldems]

24. That's commie-ism pure and simple!

[JJW]

30. Ask Not

Ask not what the country can do for you. Ask what more you can give to the global corporations.

[JTFrog]

32. The answer tonight...

on Fox News at 6.

:eyes:

If anyone really thought about the real quote, this thread wouldn't exist. :shrug:

[swilton]

34. Quit putting the onus on the PEOPLE!

It's time for the political leadership that the people elected to do what we elected them to do!

[whatchamacallit]

35. I've decided the way I can make a better tomorrow is

to never again get suckered by a slick, charismatic, politician.

[dixiegrrrrl]

42. It would be lovely to see that option run for office, wouldn't it?

Seems they either come in slick charisma or doofus ass puppet varieties.

[Iowa]

47. +1

[awoke_in_2003]

43. "summon that spirit"

does this translate to "buy more junk from china to make the christmas sales figures look good"?

[sarcasmo]

45. Give everything to the Corporations and Bankers., keep the Wars going and then ask

US to fix things. This is NOT the change I voted for.

[krabigirl]

49. +1000

[katnapped]

48. What he's REALLY saying

"GO SHOPPING, PEOPLE!!!"

Now where have I heard this before?

[Bragi]

50. Quite so!!!! /nt

[Catherina]

52. This eerily reminds me of another recent president. n/t

[rocktivity]

54. Making tomorrow better is as easy

rolling back the tax cuts, raising the Social Security salary cap, pulling out of the Gulf wars, and lowering the Medicare eligibility age.

:eyes:
rocktivity