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...there was ever a good time for President Obama to make one of his lauded grand-slam speeches, it was last week. Obama??s hallmark health-care reform suffered a disheartening blow with the January 19th election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, thereby ruining the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority. Coupling the election with a lack of progress on many of the other issues that comprised a major part of Obama??s campaign, a chorus of pundits, politicians, and voters immediately declared Obama??s agenda dead or, at least, majorly stunted...
...addition to his tenor and language, the substantive components of Obama??s speech merit praise. Many voters believe that Obama??s administration has been devoting too much attention to health-care reform at the expense of the economy. To address this concern, he wisely spent a significant amount of time focusing on the economy, the middle class, and the middle of the country. By doing so, Obama indicated that his priorities undoubtedly include job creation, education, and a more open government...
...Obama??s astute speech proved that, even given the failures of the past weeks, the Democrats have no reason to run for the hills—contrarily, they must work harder than ever to accomplish significant reform. After all, the Democrats still have a 59-seat majority in the Senate, a majority in the House, and control of the White House. As Obama??s first State of the Union address indicated, he is an able politician, and his party has no reason to abandon its entire agenda at this point in time...
Such a transformation seems, on the surface, improbable. The dispositions of these two executives could not be more dissimilar. Whereas TR was known for his vigor and zeal, Obama??s presidency is remarkable for its cool. But perhaps this is changing. In his recent meeting with House Republicans, Obama took fire from the opposition on a national broadcast and appeared, for the first time in a long time, to be the proverbial man in the arena, brow marred with sweat. The president systematically dismissed many Republican counterarguments as mere political posturing—something fresh, something promising...
...Anything coming out of Barack Obama??s mouth has to be high up there,” Berkenfeld said, rating the speech as a nine...