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Taxing the wealthiest 2% is the solution to all our problems and will aid in job creation, eh?

Tell me please, the names of all these entrepreneurial poor people who have hired all of you good folks... for I've never once been hired to work for a poor man. A poor man has never offered me a job, nor has a poor man ever signed my paycheck.

But hey, I could be wrong... maybe the poor are just more industrial and entrepreneurial where you live, eh?

Well done Obama – the world was watching.

We also watched the Republicans – sad!

The Republicans are on the wrong side of history and while Bush will win out as the worst American president ever the Republicans are on track to be the worst political party ever in the free world. The history books will have pictures of the Republican politicians of the time.

Obama is smart to put their reaction on TV for a permanent record for the history books.

The Republican Legacy – the Wrong Economy – the Wrong War!

Republicans should consider changing their name.
When all is said and done…
History will not treat them well!

Obama was brilliant last night. He is making bold plans to save this nation just like a great leader does.

Jindal's "speech" was a rambling mess jumping from how much Republicans love America (oh yea, we can tell from your nasty rhetoric) to unbelievably stupid comments about about what great shape Louisiana is in after Katrina???

Has Jindal been to New Orleans in the past 2 years? Much of it still looks like the hurricane hit last week. Most schools are not even open still and he talked about how great their schools were??

Unemployment rates are extremely high yet Jindal states he plans to take no employment money from the stimulus package. Talk about out of touch!

He and McCain need to get their stories straight on Defense spending. Bitter old McCain made a fool of himself criticizing Obama on the "extremely wasterful" Defense projects that McCain (still as Head of the Armed Forces Committee) created with his dear buddy Bush – while Jindal critcized President Obama for cutting too much from the Defense budget.

The Republicans have no leader, no idea who they are, and NO plans or ideas how to fix anything. All they do is snipe and criticize and play political games with our lives.

How sad Jindal does not realize that his skin is too dark to be remotely accepted by the Republican base. He and Steele are pawns so the Republicans can pretend they are now diverse with 2 whole non-white people.

The only "irresponsible" behavior I see is coming from the Republican Party. 2010 is coming -so we will have our change to rid ourselves of more obstructionists who care nothing about the people they represent. NC will be getting rid of Sen "No" Burr who betrayed us.

Hey Arizona – McCain comes up for reelection in 2010 – retire him or throw him out. He is a disgrace and obviously a bitter old man.

Thank God we finally have an intelligent leader who DOES cares about ALL Americans – not just all of us who agree with him. He has accomplished more in 1 month than the Republican have in 12 years!

Great job Obama! A man with real PLANS.

Puh leeze.

Morning in America literally meant "the government is going to get off your back so you can be free to prosper or fail, it's up to you."

Obama's "Mourning" in America is literally that, mourning.

Reagan said then, "Government isn't the solution to our problems... government IS the problem." And what he propsed did indeed deliver us from the economic wasteland that was the late 1970s. Anyone who enjoyed the 1990s can thank Reagan for the decade of prosperity that created the wealth (1980s), wealth that was invested in the 1990s.

Obama is now faced with a similar, yet less dire or drastic set of economic circumstances as was Reagan in 1981. Yet, rather than adopting a strategy that has proven successful on at least three occasions (JFK, Reagan, GWB), Obama instead adopts the Carter Policy of "Government Knows Best, " mindblowing pork and spending and what will amount to the largest ever tax increase on Americans to pay for it all. I think the nicest word I could say is simply "Fool."

Those who refuse to learn economics are destined to repeat voting Democrat.

worriedmom said, These Kool-Aid drinkers need to dismantle their shrines and start looking at reality. Stop waiting on free handouts!!!

Nobody's waiting on free handouts, mom. That's Republican campaign kool-aid, nothing more.

We're waiting on the things Obama has promised–turning the economy around, improving our standing in America, ending an unpopular war, winning a more popular one, being more pro-green, and improving the lives of our most unfortunate countrymen. Most of us do not believe he will be able to deliver on every promise, especially with Republicans choosing obstructionism instead of coming to the table and inserting their values into the work for a more mainstream outcome. But it's sufficient that Obama tries.

Why? Because his goals tend to embrace mainstream America's values–the same values Reagan spoke to. It's a refreshing break from Bush's go-it-alone spy-on-Americans torture-our-enemies values.

Obama's popularity, vision, powerful rhetoric and accomplishments to date are of course discouraging to those who embrace Bush's values. But those of us who wanted our country on a different path are cautiously optimistic, despite the fact that Obama sometimes leans a little farther to the right than we'd like. Because he's still far, far more to the center than Bush ever was.

Bush set a really low bar for us to measure Obama by. That's why we're so positive about Obama. He'd likely not be as popular if Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan had been his immediate predecessor.

Obama is a puppet,he doesn't know what he is doing so he emulates what ever has worked for other presidents,FDR,JFK,and Reagen.

"Obama stuck to a fairly short list of priorities while invoking traditional American values of responsibility, hard work and thrift to pound home a back-to-basics message."

What? He wants to punish and steal from every American who has personal responsibility and works hard. he wants to reward the lazy, the people who bought houses they could never afford and now demand that other responsible Americans who live within their means bail them out.

Transfer of wealth? That is the focal point of his presidency. Tell me libs, what happens when there is no more money left from those evil rich people to steal? What do you do then?

Stop already with this figurative nonsense. What has this guy done but give speeches? How long does it take for the infatuation to wear off? We get rid of Bush and now we have Joe Cheerleader running the country.

Just goes to prove, if you PROMISE EVERYTHING to EVERYBODY then EVERYBODY will LIKE it. Everybody, apparently, EXCEPT the stock market !!!!
I guess that's because the investors who actually create the jobs calculated how much " change " his Change is going to take out of our pockets !!!!

Just looking at that picture above gives me shivers. To think that those three idiots are running our country is frightening. Its downright scarey. God help us.

What was so great about Ronald Reagan?

Was it the lying about Iran/Contra?

Was it the way he ran up the federal deficit?

The "ketchup as a vegetable" school lunches? The way he armed the Taliban? His trickle down Voodoo economics? What?

When did he do that was so all-fired remarkable?

A Ronald Regan he is not , funny that the stock market knew this since his election last year. Hope is not a plan.

@JK Ashburn, VA 11:19 am

A problem with what you are complaining about is that a lot of people have worked hard all their lives and get downsized, or get buried under debt because of family illness, or get lied to by unscrupulous mortgage brokers whom they trusted to get them through a complicated process, or lose most of the value in their 401K because of big companies' and big banks' bad decisions.

I'm not sure who else can or should step in to provide relief if it's not the federal government and those of us who are still lucky enough to be paying federal taxes. Any suggestions? Or are they just out of luck?

Leave it to CNN. If Obama doesn't say Morning in America CNN will do it for him just like they inserted "really" into Michelle's infamous, "I never felt proud to be an american" line. Did anyone really think that CNN would become objective once they helped elect Obama? If anything, they've just become more empowered.

Oh boy, the VILE comments from the far-right, are SO typical! You people, offer NO solutions..... no ideas..... just continue to spew hate, lies, fear and division!

We are a Nation in crisis, and instead of doing the right thing, and cooperating for the GOOD of our Nation.... what do the GOPers do?

OBSTRUCT. The GOPers, are once more on the WRONG side!

@ JK ASHBURN VA.... DID YOU MOURN WHEN BUSH LIED ABOUT THE REASO TO ATTACK IRAQ?

DID YOU MOURN WHEN OUR TROOPS DIED FOR A LIE?

DID YOU MOURN AS YOU WATCHED BUSH ..... DOUBLE .... OUR NATIONAL DEBT??

DID YOU MOURN WHEN BUSH DECLARED THAT THE ..... DEFICIT... FOR 2009..... WOULD BE OVER .... ONE.... TRILLION???

DID YOU MOURN WHEN BUSH & PAULSEN ASKED AMERICA TO BAIL OUT THEIR FRIENDS ON WALL STREET.... WHILE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE LOSING THEIR HOMES AND JOBS????

President Obama was awesome – Bobby Jindal was irresponsible.
The republicans just don't get it, and it was very clear last night with their republican response to President Obama.
The republicans are officially clueless.

President Obama was awesome – Bobby Jindal was irresponsible.
The republicans just don't get it, and it was very clear last night with their republican response to President Obama.
The republicans are officially clueless.

WOW! KOOL-AID DRINKERS??!! WHY REFER TO THOSE THAT SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT AS 'KOOL-AID' DRINKERS? THE NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS ARE WAY TOO OBVIOUS.

OBVIOUSLY YOUR DRINK OF CHOICE MUST BE HEMLOCK. I DO NOT HEAR ANYONE IN YOUR CAMP BRINGING FORTH IDEAS THAT MIGHT PUT THIS COUNTRY TO RIGHTS. YOU'RE ALL TOO BUSY SHOOTING DOWN THE IDEAS OF THOSE THAT ARE WORKING NIGHT AND DAY TO TRY AND RECTIFY THE INEXTRICABLE MESS THAT YOUR HEMLOCK DISPENSING LEADER – YES THAT WOULD BE BUSH!- LEFT US IN.

IF YOU HAVE NOTHING OF VALUE TO CONTRIBUTE TO A DIALOGUE, IT IS BEST TO BE QUIET AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM THOSE THAT DO. EVEN IF OBAMA IS WRONG IN HIS APPROACH, NOTHING BEATS A FAILURE BUT A TRY! HE'S TRYING! CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?

What is that thing in the puke green sweater over Obama's left shoulder? Man? Woman? Or just a walking Botox warning label?

Democrats have always been for the poor.
Rebublicans have always been for the rich =and to hell with the poor .

Like a true Head Of State... He's prepared to lead and in the right dirrection... He make history every day, everything he does is marked down, people will remember him for sure.

JK ashburn, VA:
Right on JK, it's amazing how many people believe the problems with forclosures are all the fault of greedt bankers and the Bush administration, and those believers include the obama. The truth is... The Clinton administration forced bankers, Fannie May and Freddie Mack to make loans to people who could not pay them. check out the dierctive produced by Jammie gorlick, but then, those getting all tingly in the presence of the obama have no desire to know or acknowledge the truth.

To pose a Bill Clinton question- "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

Apply it to Carter-Reagan

It seems the Dems think the Carter years were much better than the Reagan years.

Son, you're no Reagan. Keep dreaming.

I thought President Obama's speech was more mantled after FDR. Then again, I am not an expert.

Loved his necktie! Jeffrey Toobin needs to get a life and look at the ties he wears.

This guy is useless and he does not know what is he doing. With his speech last night, stocks dwindling again. There is no confidence in his mornings or evenings.

Ronald Reagan was the architect of the largest economic expansion in U.S. history which created 20 million good paying jobs through tax cuts and deregulation!! I was fortunate to get one of those jobs and also had CD'S paying 8.5% and I made ALOT of money in the stock market. All the while we were the envy of the world!! So some of you please don't try to rewrite history if you weren't even alive to experience it!! It was a wonderful time of peace and prosperity and if you failed during the 80's it was no ones fault but your own!!

True patriots want Obama to succeed because this is about survival.

The rich need to fasten their seat belts because their taxes are going to pay for this. This really will be hard for the party of the rich who have been riding too high. Prepare to hear a lot of Republican squeeling!

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME, WHY IN GOD'S NAME DO REPORTERS AND PUNDITS THINK RONALD REAGAN WAS SO GREAT?

HE WAS ONE OF THE WORST ECONOMIC AND EQUALITY PRESIDENTS EVER. AND BUSH 43 WAS JUST LIKE HIM. PLEASE TELL WHAT HE DID THAT WAS SO GREAT!

TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS. PLEASE!!!

TO: worriedmom and JK Ashburn, VA

Speaking for all of us proud Kool-Aid drinkers, enough already with your criticism. NOBODY cares about anything you have to say.

A smart person once said that it is stupidity to do the same thing over and over and somehow expect a different result. We have to try something else.

For eight years the right wing nuts and their GOP cohorts who were supposed to be fiscally responsible were reckless with the country's money. They spent us into a deep hole. Now you want to criticize how we try to dig ourselves out?

You have no solutions.
Jindal repeated the same tax cut nonsense as solution to all financial ills last night, and you see the reactions to his speech.

Whoa! Mr Silverleib shows a stunning ignorance using Reagan's "Morning in America" metaphor here. Reagan used that theme in 1984, at the end of his first term, to describe how things had turned around for the U.S. Interest rates had come down, inflation was down, GDP was up, markets had recovered, and employment was up. At present, we are still on the way down. Poor analysis.

Mr. Obama, you sir! are NO Ronald Reagan!!

@JK Ashburn, VA
I'm guessing that you didn't even listen to his speech last night.

Hmmm.....free medicare, free lunches, subsidized mortgages, subsidized car loans on one hand. Tax breaks for the wealthy on the other. Neither choice seems that appealing. However, since I didn't see much of the former in the gameplan, I guess that's moot.

Kool-Aid drinkers? I guess that Rush cocktail has more kick to it. Cause many of you conservatives have apparently been downing it like you are at a keg party.

Keep on guzzling......

It's good for him to call it morning, even when it's really evening or twilight in America. Our high point was in the years 1945-70, but since then other Great Powers have been on the rise, and we are no longer strong enough to be a Superpower and boss the world around. Frankly, that's good for us and good for the world. For the first time since the 1940s, we are going to have to learn how to work and play well with others on a more equal basis, and rely more on international organizations and alliances to mask the fact that we are no longer a superpower and will have to retreat from many area.

Look up, Mr President! That's Ronald Reagan up there! You will have to work very hard and change your position on basically everything before you get there. Good luck and Godspeed!

Look up, Mr. President. WAY up! That's Ronald Reagan up there! You will have to work very hard to get there. Good luck!

Ronald Reagan was no Barack Obama. It is because of Reagan's policy of deregulation that was the beginning of the greed that caused this mess. Bush pushed us over the edge, but it all began with Reagan. And will someone please tell Limpball and Insanitty of Faux news fame: Reagan is DEAD. Thank you.

I wish all the non-believers and pessimists could be dropped off in a river somewhere. The majority of this country is not looking for a handout but because the previous administration ruined the economy a lot of people have lost jobs and need help. I don't wish anything bad on anybody but it seems the right wingers that are against everything our President stands for are not facing any tough times. You should be glad that you have jobs and a roof over your head. Some people don't at not fault of their own.

JK Ashburn, VA February 25th, 2009 11:19 am ET

You mean "mourning in America"? I am grieving the loss of fiscal sanity...
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Are you also mourning the loss of fiscal sanity by Bush and the Republicans?

Are you mourning the fact that Bush hid the true cost of the war? Unbelievable! Talk about insanity!

I would rather see OUR money (taxpayers) spent on social programs important to the growth of our nation. Would you prefer that we feed everyone overseas and deny our nation's children a free lunch? Apparently so. If you are reflective of republicans as a whole it's no wonder the republican party is dying.

BRIT HUME: "The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal's greatest oratorical moment."

NINA EASTON: "The delivery was not exactly terrific."

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "Jindal didn't have a chance. He follows Obama, who in making speeches, is in a league of his own. He's in a Reagan-esque league. ... [Jindal] tried the best he could."

JUAN WILLIAMS: "It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish.

Last night George Will made a statement that I think I quote accurately as, ‘President Obama wants to take it from the successful and give it to the unsuccessful’. When Republicans use narrow views such as that to criticize, yet they actually blindly and stubbornly supported the arrogant irresponsibility of Bush-Cheney, and then they advocate that they offer hope for the average American with having a real desire for bipartisan cooperation, as Bobby Jindal stated, yet they just follow a strong and united obstructionist policy that literally only faults, blocks and attempts to sabotage everything, they really instill no confidence and rather only generate contempt. It seems they always try to justify returning to more of the same concentration on Special Interests and a select few where they gave only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to the many and that is totally unacceptable. Republicans now simply depend on rhetoric to deceive instead of deeds to believe.

HAHAHA.... what a joke to actually compare Obama's speech to Reagan's message. Reagan's message was one of empowering PEOPLE, not government, to get our nation moving forward. Obama's underlying message is simple–"if you work hard and live right, your money will go to others who don't."

JK, you couln't have said it better! These Kool-Aid drinkers need to dismantle their shrines and start looking at reality. Stop waiting on free handouts!!!

Ronald Reagan was like the wizard of Oz,all bluster and no substance.He thought you could grow plants by just watering the leaves,while ignoring the roots,his famous trickle down theory didnt work then and wont ever work.He also was against every working American other than his rich friends.

JK wants Bushee back!

Of course we're not on the Right track. We're on the LEFT TRACK! This supposedly "intelligent" president that thinks the automobile was invented here in the US is simply wrong.

Then again, what can one expect from someone who is a product of Jimmy Carter's education system...

Republicans bought-and-paid-for by special interests made clear their agenda last night when they refused to applaud during sections of President Obama's speech. Of particular interest was the neocons' lack of response to remarks about renewable energy and independence from foreign oil. Exxon's presence was apparent.

The economic house of cards that has finally crumbled was built by Ronald Reagan and the "trickle down" economists. The economic boom of the '80's and '90's was an illusion, built by greed and govenment turning a blind eye! President Obama has NO choice but to fundamentally change the financial system with accountability as the first priority.

You mean "mourning in America"? I am grieving the loss of fiscal sanity, individual responsibility, and the belief that hard work pays off instead of what he's offering - free medical care, free lunches, subsidized mortgages, subisidized car loans, etc. etc. etc.

And the really frightenining part is the number of people - especially including the Obama Kool-Aid drinker on this blog - who actually believe this nonsense.

too bad libs hate Reagan; now they must hate Big O.

after all his approval rating is now less that W's at this point in his presidency

no he didn't

Yeah, we work hard and the government rips us off in taxes. Try eliminating the payroll tax deductions and let us, the American people stimulated the economy our way.

And just how many hundred million dollars did Hillary promise WE will give to the Palestinian people on her recent overseas junket? If times are so tough right now that we all have to tighten out belts, than we sure the heck can't afford to continue one major Federal pig trough that is call Foreign Aid.

Thank you at least today for articles about Obama with images of OBAMA instead of Republicans. I am stunned that this article does not have an image of Reagan rather than Obama at the forefront! I am merely amazed that you seem to be unable to see that you are so biased to the GOP!

Overwhelming majority thinking we are on the wrong track??
Where did that come from as believe this was prior to the
election of President Obama?
CNN, will you please STOP constantly trying to discredit our
President? Your party lost and now is the time to work towards
our survival, not to continue your negativity and bias.

Why am I surprised that there NO criticism of Reagan that can be tolerated! I do recall that Reagan was only President for the first four years of his office. The last years he was merely a shell suffering with Alzheimers! I would say that Nancy Reagan was no doubt the President in the last years!

Great job Mr. President and the first lady look great.

I can honestly say, It's nice to have a President who understands.

He hit all the right notes: Cut tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas...reform health care...scale back tax breaks for the top 2% of the wealthiest...becoming world leaders in technology to cut our dependence on oil. I especially loved his response to the auto industry crisis....'we invented the car, we won't let another country finish the chapter on making it more fuel efficient"