Obama – The 2010 State of the Union Address
The iPad hype has completely blown away my attention to Obama’s State of the Union Address. Not sure if Steve Jobs has sent the tech savvy president a demo unit to White House.
Anyways… finally got time to watch his address in youtube. With the recent victory of Republican in the Kennedy seat, you can expect try every possible means to regain people’s confidence in his leadership.
I quite like his speech. You can feel his tremendous passion to his country within each arguments against opposition parties.
He told his own party “To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve problems, not run for the hills. “. To Republicans, he said, “Just saying no to everything may be good short-term politics, but it’s not leadership. We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions.” (BTW, I think Hong Kong has the same problem as well)
He also dismissed Republican’s complaints to economic and government budget saying “From some on the right, I expect we’ll hear a different argument -– that if we just make fewer investments in our people, extend tax cuts including those for the wealthier Americans, eliminate more regulations, maintain the status quo on health care, our deficits will go away. The problem is that’s what we did for eight years.”
I wish politicians in Hong Kong have this ability as well! The ability to pin point problems and solutions, to dismiss accuses and show leadership, to lead the road ahead and give us hope….
I do suggest you to check out the speech. (transcript here if you prefer reading it instead
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