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The president gives a good speech as usual. He seemed kind of glib to me--like a confident grad student but maybe that's just me. I don't know how President Obama is going to reduce the deficit his first term given the trillion plus dollars already expended in the "stimulus" package with the sure drag on the economy cap and trade will bring, then add government run health care expenses and paying for a college education for everyone? All this funded by higher taxes on the rich? 5% of the population paying for all this?

I switched to CNN after the speech--they looked kind of grim and had their financial expert nearby. They are kind of amazed members of Congress had the time to sit around all day to get a seat by the aisle to greet the president--Anderson Cooper says he thinks it's kind of pathetic. They just shared a Facebook poll--52% of voters more hopeful after the speech but interestingly women were less hopeful than men by 10 points at least and more fearful. I wonder if the charm is wearing a bit thin.

Gov. Jindal is the best we can do at this point. I was glad he mentioned nuclear power and matched the president's talk of responsibility by characterizing the porkulus bill as irresponsibility. I liked his upbeat tone--"Americans can do anything".

More polling, CNN says the polling skews Dem since they watched the speech--88% positive, they mention those numbers are in line with President Bush's numbers at the same time in his first term.

P.S. Oh yeah, I did have to snort when he said something about curing cancer. Dennis Byrne in his column today suggested he might as well promise that--and he did.

UPDATE: AP's being kind of tough on the president--fact check: "Obama glosses over complex realities".

More: I like this observation:)