He came up firing with his rhetoric. He played defense on the economy and counter attacked the right wing critics on health-care. Yet, on the same day, the Senate came out saying that the public option would be removed from the bill. So is this just an attempt to cajole the left wing? I say yes.

Unions have always been a base for the Democrats. They are by far the most loyal Democrats there can be out there. From the moment we know President Obama, you always knew that he was a big union guy. Yesterday (September 7th), he turned to them, to what I feel is going to be his make or break week of his first term Presidency.

The crowd was friendly and they were having a picnic. He delivered a fiery speech. However, I felt that bar a few punches here and there, this speech lacked a lot of substance and had a lot of just rhetoric. I am comparing this to the speech President Obama made in Cairo or the famous “VP Cheney vs President Obama” torture “debate”. This speech was no where near those standards. In fact the President showed nerves in the beginning.

While his stories are good to listen to for the fun of it, I am not bothered how an old lady got him “fired up” and “ready to go.” Neither am I bothered about what the Unions and union leaders did for America. Those kinds of feel-good messages dominated this speech.

The 2 points that really shone would be the President talking about the stimulus package and his challenge to the Republicans when it comes to health care. On the stimulus package he mentions that his recovery plan is working. I bet you a million bucks that this would be coming up in the GOP ads in the future.

In my opinion, the wheels of the economy are turning, but not at a pace that is going down well with the American people. To be fair though, President Obama is looking at it from a right angle: manufacturing. That is the key long term goal that would pop America up again. Is he doing well enough? Let me put it this way, with all the depressing lack of spine from the Democrats, President Obama’s biggest chance of winning the next election is to ensure that the unemployment figure never does beyond 10% and and would be around 6% in 2012.

His counter attack on the Republicans on health care is a rather interesting one. To some it up the President asked the Republicans : “What are you gonna do? What’s your answer? What’s your solution? And you know what? They (Republicans) don’t have one! Their answer is to do nothing.” That is a sharp line that could back fire on the President if he does not play it well.

However, there was nothing where he stressed that the Public option would stay. There was nothing where he gave a substantive arguments. Nothing. Should the President want to get any kind of health reform on Wednesday, he better be getting a better speech that this.

I do not think that his goal of quieting down the wing nuts of his party is also met, yet. The firing of Van Jones, which I as an Independent is also furious about, and the Senate’s move to take the public option out is going to make them mad more than this speech can make them happy.

In all I think that this was basically a waste of time, just like his speech to the school kids. Nice to hear, but it is not going to make an impact on anybody or anything.

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