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NightDragon83 on 21 January 2009
Hawkeye said:
Esmoreit said:
What for me raised an eyebrow in the speech was how Obama is going to fuel our cars with wind and solar energy within his term (it being 4 or 8 years)

 

He never said that. He siad we are going to stop using foregin oil as soon as we can, and start utilizing the earth, the sun, the air, and the wind (or something like that) basically he means we will do anything we can- could be electric cars that get energy from nuclear power plants, who knows?

Solar panels on cars currently won't work.

 

Nevermind cars... try heating your home without oil or natural gas and see how well that works out for you.  Can't run everything on solar, electric or wind power!



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akuma587 on 21 January 2009

Actually they have solar panels now that fuel a hydrogen cell that will power your house while the sun isn't out.



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Esmoreit on 21 January 2009

I'm all in favor of going nuclear on our energy. They have been able to reduce the effects of waste to half recently and with our scientific process we'll be able to greatly reduce it further upcoming years.

As for the inauguration, I just heard that 2.8 Dutch people watched the inauguration live... that's roughly 1/8th of the country's populace! If this is representative for Europe... damn!



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mrstickball on 21 January 2009

I just wonder, going forward, how much complaining there'll be about Bush now that Obama is president.

Oh, one thing I thought of for why we spent so much money, and the media is swooning over Obama:

Could it be that, since the world is pretty anti-American (at least from an image standpoint) at this time, that the media is giving Obama a focused PR job to repair our/presidential image? I'm not meaning the typical 'oh hey, it's the new prez' look, but the 'all hail savior of the world! Barak Yeshua Christo Hussein Obama!' so the world will look at him in a better light now that Bush is outta office?

I had that thought. Maybe the media is learning from their Bush-bashing mistakes that it does hurt the American image overseas, and is bad for business in the long run. I doubt there'd be this much fanfare if it was McCain, but maybe Obama makes a good 'britney spears celebrity watch' target. Maybe they'll be taking pictures of Michelle 24/7 to see what she's wearing, and have Perez Hilton comment on it daily.



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halogamer1989 on 21 January 2009
mrstickball said:
I just wonder, going forward, how much complaining there'll be about Bush now that Obama is president.

Oh, one thing I thought of for why we spent so much money, and the media is swooning over Obama:

Could it be that, since the world is pretty anti-American (at least from an image standpoint) at this time, that the media is giving Obama a focused PR job to repair our/presidential image? I'm not meaning the typical 'oh hey, it's the new prez' look, but the 'all hail savior of the world! Barak Yeshua Christo Hussein Obama!' so the world will look at him in a better light now that Bush is outta office?

I had that thought. Maybe the media is learning from their Bush-bashing mistakes that it does hurt the American image overseas, and is bad for business in the long run. I doubt there'd be this much fanfare if it was McCain, but maybe Obama makes a good 'britney spears celebrity watch' target. Maybe they'll be taking pictures of Michelle 24/7 to see what she's wearing, and have Perez Hilton comment on it daily.

Stickball, you identified my source of headache for the next four years....

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 21 January 2009
mrstickball said:

I had that thought. Maybe the media is learning from their Bush-bashing mistakes that it does hurt the American image overseas, and is bad for business in the long run. I doubt there'd be this much fanfare if it was McCain, but maybe Obama makes a good 'britney spears celebrity watch' target. Maybe they'll be taking pictures of Michelle 24/7 to see what she's wearing, and have Perez Hilton comment on it daily.

Better that than tons of major news reporting outlets calling him an idiot.



mrstickball on 21 January 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
mrstickball said:

I had that thought. Maybe the media is learning from their Bush-bashing mistakes that it does hurt the American image overseas, and is bad for business in the long run. I doubt there'd be this much fanfare if it was McCain, but maybe Obama makes a good 'britney spears celebrity watch' target. Maybe they'll be taking pictures of Michelle 24/7 to see what she's wearing, and have Perez Hilton comment on it daily.

Better that than tons of major news reporting outlets calling him an idiot.

I'm not arguing that. But I do wonder if they're doing it to repair image.

 



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Coca-Cola on 21 January 2009

did you hear him say that we are a nation of Christians and Muslims?
that was huge! He is the first pres. to say that. He left out the Jews.

It's always been Christians and Jews!

I think there are more Jews than Muslims in America so wonder why he changed it.



mrstickball on 21 January 2009

Actually, Buddhism and Judaism are both ahead of Islam. Not to mention Atheism as well.



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SamuelRSmith on 21 January 2009

I disliked the way he said "non-believers" as if we're wrong for it.