The mindlessness of much of this thread is breath-taking -- as is the name calling and aspersions cast toward the "Left".
I voted for Obama. He's articulate and intelligent, something sadly lacking in the previous eight years. It's nice to have a President who can speak in complete sentences.
If you listened to him on Tuesday in his address to Congress and the American people, what more do you need to know?
The problem with Obama and other liberal Democrats isn't a lack of intelligence. It is an overestimation of their own intelligence and ability vs. the population and their belief that they can use government to accomplish anything they wish. It certainly sound good when he says how "we" are going to do this and that. How He's going to cut the deficit in half after doubling it??? How "the rich" who pay 80% of the taxes should pay more while the poor and some middle income should receive payments from the government despite paying no federal income taxes at all. How the Constitution is "open to interpretation" to the degree that it's meaningless - whether that be assigning a seat in Congress to an area that isn't a state, manipulating the upcoming census or limiting our individual right to keep and bear arms.
His scripted speaking ability is very good - it certainly hooked you. I don't think it should be necessary to highlight the fact that some of the best oratory of the last century came from intelligent and sometimes well meaning men who did more damage to humanity that any others in the history of the world.
