rssNo Echoes of FDR in Obama’s First News Conference
Friday, November 07, 2008 at 4:35 pm
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The L.A. Times gives a good review to President-elect Barack Obama for his first news conference, conducted on a day that began with downbeat economic news about the nation’s unemployment rate soaring to a 14-year high.
From the Times:
Overall, the press conference went well. Obama seemed more at ease than he did on the campaign trail, and he had a nice repartee with reporters. And, perhaps most importantly, there was a new air about him — something you may have noticed during his acceptance speech on election night in Chicago’s Grant Park. He seemed presidential.
But he didn’t offer any specifics as to how he’ll deal with the credit crisis, beyond supporting a stimulus package. The Times notes there had been speculation before the news conference that Obama might unveil some sort of FDR-style public works project.
Instead, Obama kept his plans to himself and his options open, the Times noted:
When possible, Obama’s answers about his plans for the future were vague. For example, when he was asked if he still intends to seek income tax increases for upper-income Americans, Obama was non-committal. “I think that the plan that we’ve put forward is the right one,” he said, “But, obviously, over the next several weeks and months, we’re going to be continuing to take a look at the data and see what’s taking place in the economy as a whole.”
Answers like those give him a lot of wriggle room. That’s what an incoming president wants.
2 Comments
Comment posted November 11, 2008 @ 7:12 am
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Comment posted November 11, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Dear Mary Kane,
This thread is a wonderfully timely and perspicacious of what needs to be happening now. Thanks for all you are doing to protect biodiversity from mass extinction, to preserve Earth's body from wanton dissipation, to halt relentless degradation of the environment and, with a bit of luck and a great deal of work, to save the family of humanity from reckless endangerment as well as to spare the human species from an even worse threat.
Make no mistake, the blogging world is making a positive difference. Even though the 'talking heads' in the mainstream media, the ones who are owned by economic powerbrokers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians, wish all of us would go away, we need to keep going.
Sincerely yours,
Steve
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?c…
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