not just the usual bj-style fluffers got a chubby over the speech last night and completely forgot just who barack obama really is, but also reality-based smart asses like the lee papa and the krugman and frequently pissed-off whiny bloggers on the digby rejoiced in the twinge of renewed hope they got from a mildly adversarial speech a little about jobs but mostly about cutting social programs. this pivot to jobs and challenge to republicans to embrace their own goals is all about obama's reelection, and any benefit to actual americans beyond election day in 2012 who are not barack obama is purely coincidental.
as much as krugman et al were happy with the size of the program and the stimulative fragments in the speech, it does not erase the facts of what the obama presidency has stood for every day before 8 september 2011. i guess that the fact that he can still inspire a krugman chubby just illustrates how much obama has failed and just how much was indeed possible if obama had been a man of ideas and principles.
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