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President Barack Obama
On U.S. Independence Day, President Barack Obama, in a gifted oratory, proclaimed "Unyielding spirit is what defines us as Americans." President Obama is calling on Americans to remember the spirit of the nation's founders, and to embrace his domestic initiatives. The President urged support for his plans to reform U.S. education, health care and energy policies.
President Obama, in his weekly address, asked Americans to remember the sacrifices and achievements of the men who voted for Independence more than two hundred years ago:
"We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it. And on this July 4th, we need to summon that spirit once more. We need to summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall 233 years ago today."
"We are called to remember how unlikely it was that our American experiment would succeed at all; that a small band of patriots would declare independence from a powerful empire; and that they would form, in the new world, what the old world had never known - a government of, by and for the people," he said.
The President said the same "unyielding spirit" will be required to deal with three pressing national problems:
Education: "Build schools that prepare every child in America to out-compete any worker in the world."
Health Care: Overhaul a health care system "that is imposing crushing costs on families, businesses, large and small, and state and federal budgets."
Clean Energy: Creating "the profitable kind of (clean) energy so that we can end our dependence on foreign oil and reclaim America's future."
The President chastised "naysayers", obstructionist Republicans and weak-kneed Democrats. To the party of "no" President Obama said:
"We, as a people, did not get here by standing pat in a time of change. We did not get here by doing what was easy. That is not how a cluster of 13 colonies became the United States of America."
Americans, hold your heads up high, and be proud to be an American once again. We at last have a competent and compassionate president in the White House, a man of intelligence and integrity, an elegant representative to the hopes and aspirations that define the greatness of our nation.
Comments
Mikey, get over it. Everytime this guy opens his mouth to read his telepromter you go orgasmic. It isn't going to take too long to really see the damage he is doing to this country. He is writing checks that we can't afford to cash, did you happen to see Colin Powell's remarks today?
Barry and Michelle have been having a great time, the date to New York, their European tour, and of course their recent Luao on the south lawn. I wish my wife and I could do some of that stuff, we can't afford it.
Are you going to keep giving him a pass on the gay rights and marijauna things? He must have said something that made you feel he was on your side. Well he said lots of things to lots of people that are going to be disappointed.
Please show me anything that defends the premise that our founding fathers wanted to establish a government that was going to provide and control everything.
" Everytime this guy opens his mouth to read his teleprompter you go orgasmic." HAHAHAHAHA!!! Good one B52RN!! :)
Holy mackerel Batman, I haven't seen such unabashed butt-kissing since that neutered Chris Matthews got a "tingle running up his leg." You think the Joker might have blasted the Stoner with some Obongo zombie gas???
Even I gotsta say this article is over the top butt-kissin', almost homoerotic in nature.
I've always been a proud American, despite the fact people like Mike here, has the freedom to spew forth such B.S..
1. Education? Yes get them the Kool-Aid early and get that pesky home raised wisdom out of the way.
2. Clean Energy? Presidentialy Decree, some of the biggest natural resources sitting under American soil national preserves. No thought to jobs it could create, investment capitol it would provide for further research, or self reliance as a nation.
3. Healthcare? Yeah sure. Require everyone to pay for a government run system, like the government runs anything else well.
The government has no competition or self control as it is now. You want them in your health care too. What a sucker. You probably believe in global warming too.
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