LIVE THREAD: Obama at Georgetown: Major Economic Speech.

cali

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:44 AM
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LIVE THREAD: Obama at Georgetown: Major Economic Speech.

To call his welcome, warm, is understating it.

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bdamomma

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:46 AM
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1. any live feed anywhere?

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amyrose2712

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:49 AM
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3. here ya go

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3&iref=lb100

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bdamomma

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:51 AM
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5. thanks

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spanone

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:51 AM
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4. cspan

http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

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lib2DaBone

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:49 AM
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2. live feed on Blinko/CNN http://blinkotv.com/

Edited on Tue Apr-14-09 10:49 AM by lib2DaBone

http://blinkotv.com/

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BlooInBloo

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:54 AM
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6. Damn phone aint up to live streaming - grrrr.

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cali

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:01 AM
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9. He's talking about the banks now

and AIG. He says AIG created a hedge fund on top of an insurance company. Saying they're trying to unfreeze lending outside the banking system.

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Gin

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Tue Apr-14-09 12:14 PM
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16. since the insurance industry is heavily regulated...wouldn't creation

of that hedge fund be criminal?

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SteppingRazor

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:58 AM
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7. I've read the speech. It's good, but basically a summary.

No new news or anything. Still, it does provide a good outline of what's been done and what needs to be done. :thumbsup:

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lib2DaBone

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Tue Apr-14-09 10:59 AM
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8. giving money to banks will equal $8-10 in loans to consumers....

ya... but who can get a loan (credit) when they don't have a job?

Bring our jobs home... stop outsourcing. Simple.

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stillcool

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:06 AM
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10. you think those multi-national..

corporations will come back? What are you going to give them, more tax-cuts?

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bridgit

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:09 AM
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11. OK I get it we have to fix the banks

This seems like a re-delivery of his Economic Speechifying #1 maybe #2 from weeks back. A Byzantine, multi-hydra headed construct that would seem to be pointing inward, in shifting latitudinal/longitudinal circles, and outward all at the same time

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cali

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:14 AM
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12. I am not impressed so far.

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lxlxlxl

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:47 AM
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14. It was pretty good I thought...

As far as nailing the general issues, and using the bully pulpit responsibly. Of course there is a fantasy list of issues I wish he could talk about directly (krugman & prog economics, criminal prosecutions in finance, long term economic benefit figures of implementing successful econ plans) i think it was a decent speech. better than anything else on tv thats for damn sure.

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Misskittycat

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:43 AM
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13. I think it was at George Washington University (even though

Obama said "Georgetown" once). I'm a GW alumna, and we are always being confused with Georgetown.

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Misskittycat

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Tue Apr-14-09 11:54 AM
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15. Maybe I'm wrong; CNN and MSNBC both indicating it was at Georgetown.

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