It’s such a pleasure to watch Obama’s press conferences, in which he gives such intelligent and thoughtful answers to the press’ questions. I particularly found insightful his answer to this torture question, especially about a minute into his answer when he talks about England:
Also it was funny at 35:10 when the reporter asked him to give an array of feelings, and great to see Obama not just play it off but fully and thoughtfully answer each point of the question.
You can see the happiness, pride, and honor in the faces of the press.
As blue states across the union adopt gay marriage in a satisfyingly faster-than-expected pace, Maine being the latest as of two days ago, I had meant to make a post when this happened in Iowa a few weeks ago, but hadn’t found the time to write it. I’d just like to make a big point of this, to once again exemplify that Iowa is awesome. I wanted point this out because I still feel that many coastal urbanites regard Iowa, one of our most rural states, with conservatism, hicks, and an unsafe environment for liberals, non-whites, or gays. Not so my friend, them cornfields are friendly to ya! Those hicks are now responsible for Obama and the largest gay-friendly geographic slab of America.
States in the Northern-central Midwest, regardless of low population, should not to be culturally associated with rural states in the South. The Midwest (minus Missouri & Kansas) is NOT where the bible belt is. Iowa is rural, friendly, and though true that not definitely not everyone is going to agree with you, there’s not a sense of hostility to difference. There’s a lot of really nice people in Iowa.
Tambien, if you haven’t seen The Straight Story, I highly suggest it. It’s one of my favorite movies.
It’s election day yet again! For all you Angelinos, please vote yes on Proposition B - let’s get 400MW of solar energy going!
It’s pathetic, we live in Southern California and have the greatest source of energy known to man shining in our faces all day every day, and instead we burn fossil fucking fuels!? If I was the lord I’d be so offended. Private industry has managed to produce 14 megawatts of solar in the last 10 years. Let’s create this 400 megawatts in 5 years. Put solar panels on roofs of all of our downtown buildings and other rooftops, let’s show America what’s up. LADWP FTW!!!
A few things about the speech. First of all, what a great speech! So uplifting and powerful. It’s like this is the stuff we need to hear, and what a leader. It was so good. Classic Obama (already exists )
Secondly, I didn’t plan to watch it live as I had some other things to get done. I was walking by a TV in the gym when I first saw it, and I saw the President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House in the State of the Union style seating format, and it just brought a huge smile to my face. I mean, what a change. I want any of you people who run into any of these idiots that say “there’s no difference between the two parties” to send them here, tell them to take a good look at this picture and really think about that statement, and then also become a bit more politically savvy.
Capitalism FAIL! - So, I was trying to watch this speech online about a half hour after it ended. Went to CNN’s site, first had to install some eyebrow-raising flash plugin?? Anyway, they have a lot of the speech… in out of order separate clips… that won’t do. Went to MSNBC’s site, they have it quickly ready to watch the whole thing (alriiight!) in one nice long video. I load it, watch the 30-second commercial first, then start enjoying the speech. 9 minutes in it just stops, and doesn’t start back up for over a minute. I seek around, nothing works. It’s dead. Reloading the page and seeking to the spot works, but it dies again in short time. Nothing on YouTube yet. Finally I check out the official White House website, and dog-gone!, they have the whole thing there already. I load it up, no commercials, no weird shady software installs, watch the whole thing successfully. Now, maybe this is because people aren’t (yet) used to going to government sites and actually being able to get good service, so traffic was not as high as the commercial sites, but just now government service defeated multiple private sector offerings.
Oooophhhh, Bobby Jindal response speech, almost rofl-bad. Why does he talk to us like we’re in elementary school? I guess that’s how Republicans have to talk to their base.
[Update!] - LOL, I don’t know what’s funnier, Jindal’s walk out/introduction of himself or someone at MSNBC going “oh God” as it occurs:
Tomorrow huh? I guess it’s a week later, but here’s one of my favorite parts from that Obama press conference that I’ve been wanting to post. It’s just like, thank you, somebody is finally saying what I want to say!
In case you missed the President’s first prime time news conference. Boy did he ever lay out the seriousness of what’s going on :/
The Q&A with the press afterwards was very impressive. It’s great to hear a smart president answer a single press question for 7 minutes. You should really catch the whole thing on MSNBC or CNN’s websites, but I’ll try to post some of my favorite part(s) tomorrow once it aggregates enough on YouTube.
There is large momentum growing for Obama to choose Howard Dean for the cabinet position of Secretary of Health and Human Services, now that Daschle has pulled his candidacy. …..DUH! I mean Dean is only
a.) fucking awesome
b.) a doctor of 30 years
c.) a long time governor that got major health coverage for Vermont
d.) successfully ran the DNC for the last 4 years, during the successful 2006 and 2008 elections.
I don’t know why the fuck Obama is nominating such half-assed people for some of these positions. It’s actually somewhat offensive to me that he did not put someone so awesome, smart, and who did so much for the party somewhere in the administration. Tom Daschle dude? Good lord, I never liked that guy. Barack, put Howard Dean in that position, 30 years as a doctor, and a highly successful politician, and he’s a real dude. WTF dogg, there is not much to think about here.
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