Before someone asks.. The President cannot give speeches with this kind of fire

[Peacetrain]

every week because the very juice we feel when we hear this speech would lose its fire if we had those hell fire speeches every week.

This was a great speech.. now its time for us to fire up..

[hedgehog]

1. I don't know; it got him elected, didn't it? I think he got into the White House

and listened to people who told him that now he had to be dignified. I'd rather see him out talking to people than sitting in the Oval Office.

When he gives a speech from the Oval Office, I feel like I'm the only one listening. When he gives a speech to a crowd, I feel like part of a movement.

[butterfly77]

24. He has to set it off,,

for the fall when a lot of people will be paying attention...

[tridim]

2. He just bought next week's entire news cycle.

That speech simply can't be ignored.

[Peacetrain]

4. Exactly!..It will not be ignored..

[SpiralHawk]

11. "Oh yes it can." - RepubliCorporate Media (R)

"Smirk." - RepubliCorporate Media (R)

[Mojambo]

3. These speeches tend to come around a lot more often during election season.

[Phx_Dem]

5. He always waits until September to "bring it."

For that very reason. If you peak too early, in the summer when no one's paying attention, it's all lost by Fall.

Thank God Republicans are too stupid to have learned this lesson after the general election when they peaked in August with Failin Palin's nomination, and last summer with the anti-health care rallies. By the time HCR came around for a vote, the looney teabaggers were all pooped out.

[Peacetrain]

6. Bingo!!

[The Magistrate]

7. On The Contrary, Ma'am: These Should Be Daily Occurrences

Wholesale politics is like communicating with a mule, as laid out long ago: first, you tell the mule you are going to hit him with a two by four; then you show him the two by four; then you hit him with the two by four; then you show him the two by four; and then you tell him you hit him with a two by four. You have to make things perfectly clear, and cannot skip a single step if you want the mule to actually move in the direction you desire....

"By definition, half the voting populace is below average intelligence."

[Peacetrain]

9. My dear sir.. if they were given on a daily basis

We would not even talk about them, and they would not be televised. People have the attention span of a gnat

[The Magistrate]

14. Travel About, Ma'am: Own Every Local Market In Sequence

Escalate the level of attack:it it is always news when the President speaks, and speaking, accuses and attacks. Commentary on and discussion of the attacks and accusations necessarily repeats them, and ingrains them further.

The uncommitted middle is swayed by neither reason nor calculated self-interest: it aligns with what is most passionate, most fierce in attack of its enemies and advocacy of its own desires.

[Peacetrain]

16. Good Sir.. I agree with you about the passionate moving the masses

We must all be passionate.. and not just sit on the sidelines

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. Instead of a mule, couldn't we just do that to Glen Beck?

Just a suggestion.

But what this President needs are some key surrogates, and I'm not talking about just Joe Biden. We need a cadre of safe members of the House and Senate to take this barnstorm this message on a regional scale. Al Franken in the Upper Midwest. Sherrod Brown through the Lower Rust Belt. Etc.

[quiet.american]

8. Damn - missed it, but am awaiting the online CSPAN vid.

Had been watching the Fiscal Commission sessions on CSPAN tv all day.

[Peacetrain]

10. You are going to love it!!

[mahina]

13. Where are you hearing the speech?

I want to hear it too!

[Peacetrain]

15. It is over now..but I am sure you can get it on U-Tube.. It ended

15 or 20 minutes ago

[ibegurpard]

17. I'll be satisfied if his deeds match his rhetoric for once

[Peacetrain]

18. Well if you are unable to see what has been accomplished in the last 19 months

no amount of fiery speech is going to move you .. just saying

[JVS]

22. "no amount of fiery speech is going to move you" Damn right! Corresponding actions are necessary.

[baldguy]

19. What he really can't do is give a speech to bring the house down, and then do nothing.

[Hawkowl]

20. Bahhh! Nonsense!

It works for the right wing, doesn't it? It'll work for the democrats.

[impik]

21. He was governing for 20 months. Now he'll show them

how he politik.

[Clio the Leo]

23. exactly nt

[DemocraticPilgrim]

25. That's a very god point actually good to save it for special occasions hope he has an October zinger