This was an chat / comment space during the live streaming of Barack Obama's acceptance speech. The discussion remains open for comments.
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Are the nomination acceptance speeches that important? Considering each speech is a formal spoken communication and an indicator of the upcoming campaign, I'd like to hear your reactions in real time.
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Comments: 54
OK Obama which cave is bin Laden in?
That's great but we need to find out where the massive amounts of money is being spent and use it wisely and not keep holding the hand out for more. Average amount per student is near what a private school cost.
More money will not solve problems alone. If it was the solution why have hundreds of diseases not been cured when billions have been spent.
Anyways, the accounting matters for the plan cannot be given on a speech. They are all detailed in 100+ pages per topic on his website. This is not a grocery store accounting that you can give in one hour. Please get a clue.
Great link to an interactive budget. It's eye opening about how much things cost and where our money goes. Taxes, health care, education.
"Enough!"
"If this is an ownership society, you own your failure." GOP, you own your failure of the last 8 years.
Those were some of the lines for me. The indictment was poignant. He made the case today why we should not let any republican anywhere near the white house.
"John McCain does not get it!"
Money? Tax 5% of America more. He said 95% of families will see their tax reduced. That leaves 5% to tax the heck off. You either like that or don't like it but that's what HE will do. That's specific.
Jared, I nabbed the link to the education page. Do you have the economic one available?
His points about cutting taxes - my ears perked up when he spoke of eliminating capital gains taxes for small businesses - wonder how that will play out, Charles.
Charles, he can do it by raising the taxes on the economic top 5%. Even small percentages of their vast revenue streams can add up to hundreds of millions per year.
Also, he said he plans on cutting off tax breaks to big corporations, which will also result in more millions of dollars flowing in to the government; and if he effectively stimulates the small business and entrepreneurial sectors, and brings jobs back to our shores, then even more taxable streams will be generated.
That's pretty much how Bill Clinton did it.
"But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy."
Absolutely. All it takes is a resolute dedication to stimulate the proper research, development, manufacturing and installation technologies (aka: Green Collar Jobs)
As was said, if we got ourselves to the moon in ten years, we certainly should be able to break foreign oil dependence in the same amount of time.
And I totally hope that he does. I'd also like to see him level higher tax rates on portfolios whose investments are centralized in countries known for humanitarian rights and labor abusers.
If you'd like to browse a copy already posted on the web, here is a link to a copy I found --
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Transcript_of_Barack_Obamas_speech.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_obama_text_1
Anyway, I'm cashing in for the night... will check back in the a.m.
Have Fun!!
This was the first passage where I teared up. I watched the speech on TV at a local restaurant (ironically in San Antonio, who's local newspaper is where Bill's link will take you...) and this is the line that brought the first laugh:
And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On Nov. 4, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”
I am full of hope that this man will indeed become the next President of the United States if only because he is willing to entertain ideas that the tired old Republican party have ignored or ridiculed, such as improved health care coverage, focus on providing opportunities for education to all students, the need to close the loop holes that big business and the multimillionaires use to escape paying their share of taxes.
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