"An Agenda That Begins With Jobs"

 

As we wait for The Exalted Won to render his verdict on the state of our union, let us remember his golden-tongue address to a joint session of Congress... four years ago:

 

.... Now is the time to act boldly and wisely, to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity.

Now is the time to jump-start job creation, re-start lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down. That is what my economic agenda is designed to do, and that is what I'd like to talk to you about tonight.

It's an agenda that begins with jobs....

As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by Presidents Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets, not because I believe in bigger government -- I don't -- not because I'm not mindful of the massive debt we've inherited -- I am.

I called for action because the failure to do so would have cost more jobs and caused more hardships. In fact, a failure to act would have worsened our long-term deficit by assuring weak economic growth for years....

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Nice job of blogospheric archeology, Yael. You've dredged up the words of a man who's as impotent as King Richard III, whose bones were dredged up a couple of weeks ago. King Richard's impotent because he's dead; Obama's impotent because he never meant what he said in the first place. Those words were never more than political mumbo-jumbo mixed with a little abracadabra and topped off with some hocus-pocus. We'll no doubt hear more of this crafty cozenage tonight. Frankly, I'd rather hear Richard III explain how his bones ended up where they did. That would be a lot more interesting than tonight's bamboozlement.