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It went pretty much like I thought it would. He said he wants to cut spending, but then talked about things he wants to spend money on. He also seemed to basically be asking for a do-over. I have said all along that I thought he was getting some stuff done and that he was also doing things I didn't like. Now he is doing what every president does once elected. He is trying to pander to the middle. He realizes that health care reform is not the #1 thing on people's minds, jobs and the economy are. So he says he is going to focus on that, plus he is going to work on many other things. I just hope he will find a way to juggle them and I hope he actually follows through on some of this stuff.
A few things I did like: He basically told the republicans flat out that just threatening to filibuster every bill no matter what it is about is not what people elected them to do. He also called out the supreme court on their terrible recent decision on corporate funding of political races and he says he is going to make a bigger effort to work with the republicans. I also liked that he scolded the democrats for being spineless by reminding them that they have the largest majority in a century and they are not getting anything done.
We'll see where we sit a year from now. If things are going as he says the economy will be recovering well, we will be out of Iraq and preparing to leave Afghanistan. I hope he is right.
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