"Mr. Obama fully in the fight"

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NYT Editorial:


President Obama — who took too long to engage this debate — gave two sensible and, finally, passionate speeches. He said that to create jobs and stabilize the economy, the federal government will have to help businesses invest more, and it will have to spend some more, for a while longer. And he said that the country will never be able to wrestle down the deficit if Congress gives in to Republican demands to extend $700 billion in unjustified and unaffordable tax breaks for the wealthy.

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Mr. Obama’s speeches were a robust effort by the president to rally Democrats for the election. It has been a long time coming. And we wish that Democratic leaders in Congress could show the same clear thinking and the same willingness to go head to head with the Republicans. Some commentators are likely to say that Mr. Obama should not have given a national stage to Mr. Boehner, a relative unknown despite his immense power in Congress and his ambition to be the next speaker of the House. But that is just what he needed to do.

For far too long, Mr. Boehner and others have been dominating the political debate with insincere sound bites, Jedi mind games and plain bad economics. How can they claim to care about the deficit and insist on more tax cuts?

The answer, unfortunately, is that they can, and they have, because Mr. Obama has sat on the sidelines and most Congressional Democrats have run for the hills. We are glad to see Mr. Obama fully in the fight.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09thurs1.html?_r=2&hp

[Radical Activist]

1. He was on a clean energy speaking tour two weeks ago.

He made a passionate fight then. Why was it ignored by the press?

[FrenchieCat]

2. Cause they have their own agenda,

and it ain't ours.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. Because the M$M has a vested interest in not moving forward when it comes to

energy, green jobs or anything else!!

[Clio the Leo]

4. Considering there's a lot of 24 hour cycles between now and 11/3...

.... I dont think he took too long .... but, ya know,whatev. ;)

[NavyMom]

5. But Obama has ALWAYS let others show their hands, then BAM!!!!

he knocks them upside the head. During the primary & general election the talking heads said the same thing but just let's them show their hands, in the party of NOPE he let them go with their best shot and he is now using their words/actions against them with voters.

These idiots has been yelling the same tired crap for months, he let them, now he is spot lighting them on their hypocrisy in all aspects, shoot even turkey neck used the word compromise although we know he is lying.