another home run…

Posted on Monday 14 September 2009

Transcript: President Obama’s Address to Wall Street

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Another beautiful speech with his usual mastery of the problem and the solutions. As I watched I kept thinking, could George Bush have even understood the problem well enough to give such a speech. Bush’s speechwriters started with an ideological perspective and progressed to an ideological agenda. Obama laid out the problem, the weaknesses and excesses that caused the problem, and followed with his solutions. If there was any ideology other than exhorting Wall Street to be thankful to the American people for the bailout and a call to focus on the long term stability of the economy rather than self-serving short term goals, I didn’t hear it. If this country doesn’t appreciate this man, what are we?…

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