I am in a classroom teaching and watching the speech, but y’all can watch together? Is it living up to expectations? What’s the right wing screaming about? What percentage of school districts are bowing to the right wing crazies and refusing to air it?
Is Palin really giving the repiglican rebuttal, or was that just my overactive imagination?
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I have CSPAN on. I watched the speech. It was short but infinitely inspiring and good. To watch the Senior Class President get to introduce the President of the United States, Barack Obama, was just so neat. And you could have heard a pin drop in that auditorium, which was packed. The smiles, excitement, and eagerness of the students in the front row when Barack went down to shake hands and talk to them was also something to see. To think that some students were denied this is more than sad.
CSPAN always has call in time after they air a speech. All positive calls, and I know that they have three lines in for Repugnants, Democrats, and Independents. I wasn’t watching that part so don’t know the breakdown in numbers for the lines. But there were students, parents, and teachers calling in.
Interesting. Today show has a segment on about the recession with Elmo and his momma. And Al Roker. Sesame Street doing a special called Families Stand Together. September 9th, 8 p.m. ET on PBS. You can google it.
Well, the speech is over and the world is still spinning correctly on its axis. Just makes all those who raised a ruckus look stupid not only in our eyes but in those of their children.
Here’s Obama’s Labor Day Speech.
@ sharonlee:
I think that once this got going, Obama thought best to let it ride. More often than not, the outrage from the other side has made them look more stoopid (if that’s possible) – and he had to do very little to make them look and sound more stoopid. That has happened with the health care reform debate – I mean really… death panels? Now that the news is out how many times the insurance companies have acted like real death panels… who’s stoopid now.
Earth still spinning, sun still shining, birds still singing! A good day!
My class saw bits and pieces but live streaming sites were all clogged. We will watch it tomorrow again and look for specific info as we go. The kids asked if we can write to Obama & invite him in. Other than the fact that secret service probably checks immigration status seemed like a great plan.
Thanks to Pellora, the President’s speech was livestreaming on my computer as I raced in to the
, dried hair, got dressed and chose being on time over putting on makeup! 
Now I am back for a few before I am off again. Yesterday I saw the Labor Day speech. I had the same reaction to both – we need to get Obama out there talking to people, speechifying as much as possible. He is so good at it that just listening to him makes me feel better. Which brings us right back to my post last night – the fear of the “cult” of his personality. Kids, normal people (not wingnuts) just like the guy! 
Letters to President Obama would be great! What a lesson in citizenship, civics, participation, awareness, and more.
I’m off to Carson for a good part of the afternoon. See y’all later!
Just found this!
How many other Senators or Representatives, Federal or State, or anyone else could do this.
I couldn’t do it as well, but would be at least get a B. I hope! 
@ Pellora:
After watching the video of Al Franken at the Minnesnowta State Fair, Mr. Gnome said, “there is our first Jewish president.”
OK, I am off to the shop for a bit, until the heat gets too much for me.
Me too, I’m off.
And I agree with Mr. Gnome. I would vote for Al without hesitation.
Upper logout and admin buttons are missing.
And lower button won’t let me log out. Oh well.
Hi honeys I’m home.
Franken’s too short to be elected. Yes Americans ARE stupid.
Hi. Here are a couple of links I found in my inbox when I returned from lunch.
http://community.thetimes-tribune.com/blogs/johncole/archive/2009/09/05/school-daze.aspx
http://community.thetimes-tribune.com/blogs/johncole/archive/2009/09/08/educational-indoctrination.aspx
@ sharonlee:
sad, but so true.
A new term to use in place of Death Panels: Insurance-Assisted Suicide.
The money parts: As long as insurers’ incentive to make a profit diverges from caring for their customers, insurer-assisted suicide will always be a reality. And as we’ve seen, balkanizing the enforcement to the state level instead of having a federal regulator cracking down on this will put the enforcement at the mercy of fragile state budgets and haphazard state regulators. Here is the entire enforcement mechanism, as far as I see it, in the Baucus draft plan from the Senate Finance Committee:
Yay, the states get an ombudsman! And he or she can only be tapped if individuals “exhaust internal appeals”; that is, beg their insurers to stop cheating them. And since the states will be establishing the office themselves, they’ll set the budgets and choose the staff – meaning that we’ll potentially be leaving enforcement of insurance regulations in Texas and South Carolina, for example, to Rick Perry and Mark Sanford.
Ultimately, those fighting for a public option are fighting for some way out of this Chinese box, where insurers have control over the health care you receive, and can just as easily deny your coveage as they can allow it. All of the regulations in the world won’t mean a thing without proper enforcement, and this won’t cut it.
@ gnome de plume:
Hope the shop went well today and was a soothing experience for you in this sea of confoundedness.
@ sharonlee:
all over again. I need to calm down. I have some reading to do before my next meeting. Let me try this 
and see if it works.
The shop did go OK. It was hot, but a breeze sprang up at the end. I ran some errands, got home and made the mistake of looking at e-mail and intertoobs and turned
Hi y’all. I saw the speech. It was good but not really for HS. I just can’t believe it was so short. Did he cut out the stuff that would upset the crazies? Or did he just mean for it to be short?
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@ gnome de plume:
They got a good part of that right. The worst part of the Baucus plan is that the exchanges are state level. For a state like mine (1.3 million people), that really, really sucks. Pool up a few 10s of thousands of uninsured and you still don’t have much bargaining power. (What they got wrong: any public option would still be a state by state, so still no real bargaining power). A New England regional exchange would begin to have bargaining power.
And they’re absolutely right about getting insurance regulation out of the hands of the states.
(Curiously, it’s reported that Olympia Snowe’s problem with the plan is that… the subsidies are too stingy! Yikes! She must be about to drop that R after her name!).
today’s speech:
@ gordon:
Texas may have the scale, but it also has Rick Perry. So we may be even. Baucus is either stupid, hopelessly naive or completely bought by the insurance companies. Or maybe all three.
Just went to Univision’s page in search of a Spanish translation of the speech. Instead found a headline that makes me want to barf.
President Barack Obama went forward with a controversial speech to students nationwide Tuesday.
No one told me that Univision was the spanish word for fox!
@ freckles cassie:
Cassie, I believe you saw the speech he always intended to give. Short, aimed at a wide range of audience, although he was physically at a high school. Students need to discuss the issues to draw out the full meanings to them.
Hope you are feeling better. It’s not fun to be sick on a holiday.
Maybe it is! I have found a grammatical error in the friggin headline. Oy!
Obama le habló a los estudiantes
Haven’t looked closer but both Yglesias and Klein say there’s another problem with the Baucus plan. And they’re almost always right.
Rather predictably (sigh), the OpenLeft, C&L etc. voices are castigating the Baucus plan for all the wrong reasons.
Here is Chris Bower’s rationale (everything above the fold is irrelevant). This is why the line in the sand is the public option. Nothing to do with policy. Everything to do with politics.
Off to check the BBQ-ing chicken. Which hopefully is fuming in a good way.
@ gordon:
The employer mandate has to go. Who has an employer to provide us with insurance, anyhow, given the loss of jobs over the past ten years?!?
He must have written his bill on a cocktail napkin, while drunk, the night before he presented it.
OK, off to my Habitat Meeting. Hopefully that will be more fulfilling than reading about comfortable idjits in Washington writing bills showing they haven’t a clue as to how the real world works!
Texas Betsy wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univision
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yeah, well, they ACT like fixed noise