Has the President changed advisers??

[kentuck]

The speech today sounded so different and out of character for him?

Is Little Timmy not advising him anymore?

Obviously it is not something Chief of Staff Daly would advise?

I'm wondering who has his ear? He sounded almost liberal...

:-)

[Tippy]

1. He is thinking more for himself these days.....

I think he knows the mistakes he has made. He picked the advisors he did by listenting to EXPERTS with an agenda.

[tridim]

2. Go back and listen to his previous speeches, he has always sounded like he did today.

It's a myth that he has changed.

[kentuck]

5. Most folks would disagree with you...

I would bet.

[tridim]

6. Doesn't matter, it's still a myth.

[kentuck]

7. I disagree.

that he has not changed.

[tridim]

11. I guess it doesn't really matter.

I'm just happy you can finally see what he is. Many of us have seen this as reality since day one.

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. I wouldn't. He's always talked a great fight. That's what got him elected

in the first place.

It's the follow-up that he's weak on.

I'm not holding my breath till I see the results from this speech.

[Pab Sungenis]

10. But it's not the way he's governed.

I've said before that if he governed like he ran, we'd be out of the darkness by now.

[WI_DEM]

3. No, he can think for himself, I'm sure.

[indepat]

4. Yeah, considering he could have presented some sort of a tax-fairness/sanity bill

to a Democratic Congress on January 20, 2009. :patriot:

[TheWraith]

14. If you'll recall, the issue came up several times.

The consensus was always that it was impossible to pass, because the Democratic Congress wouldn't support it, or rather not ENOUGH of the Democratic Congress would support it.

[indepat]

19. Use the bully pulpit. Get the legislation brought up and let the RW Dems vote against it, then

skewer the sobs. But me thinks Rahm Emanuel, et al wanted no part of weaning the uber-wealthy and large corporations from their fervent sucking at the public welfare teat. :patriot:

[Larkspur]

8. Maybe he looked at his falling poll numbers and decided to do something about them

I hope he has actually learned that raising the age for Medicare and cutting SS benefits is a SURE loser. He won't win re-election against over 70% of Americans who don't want the sacred trusts of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cut so that the criminal wealthy can have their tax breaks.

[ChandlerJr]

9. Maybe he got that smart 27 YO speech writer back

Jon Favreau, head speech writer for
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

[bowens43]

12. what he says means nothing

why does anyone place any importance in things that he says? what he says and what he does rarely have anything to do with each other.
right now he's worried about his base and re-election so he starts spewing what he thinks thay want to hear.

meaningless coming from him

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. +1. nt

[Carolina]

15. It's campaign season

so expect more of those liberal, "pretty speeches" we heard back in 2008.

Fool me once...

[me b zola]

17. Since you wrote pretty much exactly what I was going to post

I will just give you a nod in agreement.

How anyone can take Obama seriously at this point is beyond me. But then again, I stayed with him for the first year of his presidency, and it should have been clear to me what he was going to do before he ever stepped foot into the office with the people he chose to surround himself with.

[RC]

18. Correct. Obama is in Campaign mode.

bu$h the lesser did the same thing 4 times, twice running for governor and twice running for the presidency.
He ran from the center, then went hard Right after being 'elected'.

[kenny blankenship]

20. It's the season of making promises you won't keep.

Sounds like 2008, right?

[Raine]

21. It's not about what he says, it's about what he does

and doesn't do ... that's where I have a problem.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. I call it "Prelude To A Cave"