Analysis: Obama address renews audacity to hope

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_analysis

President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again.

After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing his $787 billion stimulus plan through Congress, the president used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to tap the deep well of American optimism — the never-say-die spirit that every president tries to capture in words. And great presidents embody.

"We will rebuild. We will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," Obama said, echoing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

"The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach," Obama said. "What is required now is for this country is to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more."

The themes of responsibility, accountability and, above all, national community rang throughout an address carefully balanced by the gravity of its times. Job losses. Home foreclosures. Credit crisis. Rising health care costs. Declining trust in government. Obama touched all those bases.

"The impact of this recession is real, and it is everywhere," he said.

[Clio the Leo]

1. Preach on brother.......

I'll strum along with you.....

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

2. That was one bad-ass MFer of a speech!

Inspiring, honest and totally in tune with his promise to tell the people "what they need to know, not what they want to hear." The few well chosen haymakers aimed at the Repigs were glorious.

I am very proud of our President at this moment. And FDR and JFK are surely smiling on from the great beyond. Probably LBJ, too.