Here is a great site from the New York Times which allows you to watch Barack Obama's State of the Union address, and read his speech and / or comments at the same time. Let us know what you think about what he had to say. The image is a wordle of his key words. You can find out more about that at The Guardian's site here.
PS: Here is comment from Fox News and theBBC.
The entire country is focusing it's attention this morning on President Obama's State of the Union address last night. I have nothing original to add to the discussion other than my view that it seems the prez is trying to jump start his faltering administration. A lot of "the experts" are at the moment dismissing this White House as dead in the water. If they had any concept of history they would know better. Many presidents in the past got off to a bad start. If George W. Bush were judged only on his first year in office, he would today be remembered as one of the worst Chiefs Executive in American history....
ReplyDeleteOkay, maybe that's not a good example. Let me try again....
Jack Kennedy had a fairly shaky start in his first year (Remember the Bay of Pigs?) and yet he turned out to be pretty good at the job. A year from will find us at the half way point of Obama's first (I hope) term. Let's see what happens between now and then. NOTE TO LIBERALS: To abandon all faithin this president now would not only be foolish, it would be a half-step away from insanity. Chill!
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Ok, Tom Degan just totally copied and pasted that from his blog Observation 4#
ReplyDeleteGood to know that it isn't just nonsuch girls reading HP
Apparently Tom Degan is a civics teacher from Goshen, New York State. Welcome, Tom and please visit again!
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ReplyDeleteisn't Geroge W Bust the worst president in RECENT history? maybe i am mistaken there... but seriously...
ReplyDeleteOBAMA ROCKS... so he may not have got off to the best start, but it wasn't exactly a great situation he had to deal with, he didn't have an easy job. i think he's done ok... :)