As a reminder, watch the Obama Address to Congress on Tuesday, February 24th 2009 on a live video stream feed with live-blogging commentary. Although the Obama speech is not technically a “State of the Union” address his team is secretly calling it one and it has the same aura.
First Obama Congressional Speech Live Video Streaming, Commentary
President Obama is addressing a joint session of Congress, so the only difference from a State of the Union address is that this first speech to Congress is occurring in February instead of January. What time is Obama’s address to Congress? 6pm Pacific Time, 9pm Eastern Time. Watch the live streaming video below.
The Obama Congressional address is obviously important. In a short five week period, the president has squandered much of the good will that was built up before and after the election. The country is perhaps maturing as the attractive campaign message of “hope” does not match the performance in office. His public opinion polls are sagging alarmingly for a new president, and he has already made several major stumbles.
Three of Obama’s cabinet appointment never made it to a congressional hearing. They withdrew due to scandals and investigations. Expect that Obama will not address these scandals in his speech to Congress, so do not ask if we have serendipitously edited the live video feed.
Meanwhile, the president promoted a huge spending boondoggle known to backers as the “Obama stimulus plan” and to opponents as “pork.” His own administration admits it will not stimulate much, at least not for a while. The plan lost much public support, and Obama’s favorability ratings fell as a result. The bill squandered the hope for bipartisanship in Washington as it got almost no support from the GOP. In an effort to regain lost support, Obama’s first Address to Congress will trumpet the pork-laden stimulus plan as a win of sorts, so watch for that in the live feed TV. This will be one of those moments were Democrat members uncomfortably cheer while Republicans sit on their hands with political glee.
But the reality is the unemployment rate rose alarmingly since Obama took office as businesses are wary of what is coming next from Washington. The stock market has plunged 30% in a month while he sends trial balloons of nationalizing industries. Such missteps have caused the administration to quickly backtrack when the consequences are felt by working Americans. Obama will address the banking industry in his congressional speech but expect it will do little to quiet alarmed markets.
Abroad there is war in the air as other nations are seemingly taking advantage of an inexperienced leader in the White House. Russia is challenging the new administration at every turn, prompting our allies to turncoat on military bases that are crucial to a successful effort to beat the Taliban. Meanwhile, the president of Pakistan made a deal with those same Taliban, perhaps thumbing his nose at Obama for bravado comments made during the campaign. Obama threatened to invade Pakistan during the primary fight with Hillary Clinton. Now the U.S. is paying the price for undesirable campaign rhetoric.
Iraq is angry over poor communications with the Obama team. Iran is almost ready with a nuclear weapon and it appears that Israel will be forced into war unless Obama acts swiftly to influence Iran. And North Korea is readying to fire a long-range missile figuratively over Hillary Clinton’s head. But who cares about the world around us when the economy is in recession and Obama seems to take sardonic pleasure in talking it down to the alarm of Americans.
Barack Obama will address foreign affairs in his first speech to Congress but do not expect any specifics because the specifics are grim. He will talk in the general platitudes that we are all familiar with already, that America is becoming a kinder, gentler nation which wants to work with friend and foe alike. Most of this speech will be dedicated to the economy, both righting the problems that his new administration created and the problems he inherited from the big-government president who preceded him.
So watch the live stream video feed below and join us for an interesting live-blogging night. Several Right Pundits bloggers will be offering their views on Obama’s congressional speech, and you are invited to join the conversation with your own observations.
So turn on both the live feed TV and the live-blogging widget. Just don’t call it a State of the Union address, because Obama would have to say it is not strong yet under his leadership.
Obama Address to Congress Live Blogging
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February 23rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
Santa Obama is coming to town.
This speech will contain nothing positive about America. It will blame Bush and other past Presidents for the problems that Barry has. I bet he will say the word CRISIS at least 32 times.
It will also be a list of giveaways for the Americans that don’t contribute anything to our economy.
And of course we must raise the taxes on the people that provide jobs (you evil mean people) and punish anyone that makes too much money (Barry will decide how much that is). Sig Hail to the new fuehrer (the is German for leader).
It will be interesting to watch the dems as he is speaking. They will give him about 12 to 15 standing ovations and have multiple Obamagasims.
Wonder if he is going to tell us when the hope will be here.
Let’s see how much more money we don’t have that he will say we are spending. My guess is a duotrigintillion. That is 10 to the 99th power or
$1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
No matter what, I will find it hard to watch. I think I will be licking the link from my dryer vent during that time.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
[...] argue, vent, or say ‘i love you’ like this dopey person during his speech, you can go here. they will be having a live video stream feed with live-blogging commentary. the speech begins at 6 [...]
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Wow, MCCAIN, I would love to hear what you would have to say if the new administration really WAS having a major problem.
One thing I get from this little spiel is, YOU WANT WAR. You want all kinds of bad things to happen, just so Obama looks bad.
That is pretty sick, man. Pretty sick.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
[...] too ! ( Yes, even if you’re a liberal democrat ) The live feed/live stream post is at: Right Pundit’s ( Obama ) The GOP response to Obama is at: Right Pundit’s ( Jindal ) digg_url = [...]
February 24th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Yes Arch, did you know that Republicans also hate minorities too? Freaking thugs are hate mongers for disagreeing with the amateur-in-chief.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
“if the new administration really WAS having a major problem.”
IF ???????
Well, I guess most people wouldnt feel that way if Obama werent telling us every frickin five minutes that the end is near !!!!
February 24th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
is the speech actually being streamed here?
February 24th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
gag me with spoon
February 24th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I cant believe this but I’m looking at those two behind him and actually hoping nothing ever happens to him.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
my score: Obama speech talked of engineering solutions to the problems we all know we have. Jindalls speech was more ideologue hogwash that offered no engineering solutions, just empty platitudes that spell inaction. Jindall isn’t of the caliber as Obama and yes the repubs played the lamest race card they could have. Seriously, obama offered some solutions, jindall offered platitudes.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
“Obamagasm.” LOL… Yeah, I think I had one.
February 24th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
“Jindalls speech was more ideologue hogwash that offered no engineering solutions”
Bull, Jindall went into what the conservative solution was, mentioning the numbers, how they would work and what the cost difference would be.
Were you having one of your contemptuous blackouts again ?
February 24th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Yea leftright, I wonder what the carbon offset of all those little puddles around the country will add up to ?
February 24th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
do you just get this from the unabridged version? lets see race card and now race sex card. You guys are so ideological, you arer coming up with rehashed tire worn stale plats.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Jindall has never accomplished getting himself elected to the chief executive national office and run the kind of campaign it would take to do that, yet you compare him as some equal to Obama. Obama is putting it all on the line as a nationally elected official and he really does want to fix things, and Jindall is mouthing plats and I am not clear where his heart is other than looking and talking good and appearing very naive as to how the world really works, and at best he stays within the stale confines of the repub partie. There is no comparison other than you want to win so lets just throw out all logic, objectivity, and common sense.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Wow, why does McCain always sound so bitter. I have confidence in Obama and I rejoice that you were not elected into that position. For all you have is criticism and no plans.
February 24th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I think the clinton and bush presidencys were really a lot of lost time as these problems built up. You could argue Reagan launched the current mess with his economic policies, and they just grew and got more unbalanced towards the end of the clinton and definitely in the bush era. Now obama has to fix everything all at once. Lets face it we as a nation haven’t delt with the key problems of energy, health care, education, infrastructure, in all this time. Also in fairness to clinton, I think the repubs ruined his presidency over the ridiculous monica affair. We really haven’t had a president in 16 years even begin to deal with these issues, so Obama is really putting in an effort. It seems the business and special interest lobbiests like everything paralyzed the way it is now as it was so profitable to them till they destroyed their own business model. But now there is no choice but to change.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Brian, how stupid are you? We are were we are because the dems thought everyone should own a home even if they couldn’t afford one. Bush tried to fix it, but Barney and Chucky wouldn’t hear of it.
To blame Reagan shows you slept thru school or were still a gleam in your fathers eye.
All we will get with ‘Barry In Charge’ is more spending, more debt, and more programs we don’t need and can’t afford.
When will you liberal figure out that education, healthcare and any other entitlement program is not a God given right and it is not the governments place to do so.
Name me one government program that works. Just one.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:20 am
You could argue Reagan launched the current mess with his economic policies, and they just grew and got more unbalanced towards the end of the clinton and definitely in the bush era.”
Hmm…
Last I checked it was Carter who launched the CRA.
Carters “Community Reinvestment Act” forced banks to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, mostly in minority areas and standards of banking prudence got tossed out the window along with harsh new regulations requiring banks not only to lend to uncreditworthy borrowers, but to do it on the basis of race.
Then Clinton. Despite warnings from GOP pushed extensive changes to the rules requiring lenders to make even more questionable loans.
If the banks didnt live up to the standards they wouldnt be allowed to expand lending, add new branches or merge with other companies. Banks were given a so-called “CRA rating” that graded how diverse their lending portfolios were and determined the amount of how much more bad business would be sent their way.
Do you mind telling me how Reagan came into that picture ?
“We really haven’t had a president in 16 years even begin to deal with these issues,”
More BS.
Bush and McCain both sounded the alarm in the mid 2003-2006 era, mentioning Countrywide, F&F, along with the CRA, but no one would listen. If you like I can dig up the transcript of McCain telling the congress back in 06 that the bubble was going to burst any day and that they’d better do something soon, it really happened.
“It seems the business and special interest lobbiests like everything paralyzed the way it is now as it was so profitable to them till they destroyed their own business model. But now there is no choice but to change.”
Yea, right, so what does Obama do ? he brings in the lobbyists he said he would not.
Obama should just shut up, sit down, stop spending money foolishly and let the banks do what they do the way they always did it before the Dems struck their grubby little fingers in everything and caused this mess.
I myself was getting hip to this crap when our property value skyrocketed 30% in 06- 07, we refininced and then not a week later Countrywide kept calling me everyday to offer refinancing.
WTF ?
It was then I remembered how McCain went to the hill and begged congress to do something about this impending doom and told my wife “watch, all hells gonna break loose in the housing industry, our house is worth way more than its really worth and McCain is saying theres a bubble ready to pop”
Brian, you dont know what you’re talking about.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Hey, y’all,
So when was the last time that one party had control of both houses and the presidency and DIDN’T fleece the people?
Relax. It’s only a couple of trillion bucks. No reason to play the race or gender card or be calling each other ideologues. It’s all good.
We’re being fu#$%d, but in a different way. Kind of exciting, isn’t it?
February 28th, 2009 at 8:37 am
if we just had gone from carter to obama we would have not suffered all the tragedy these other presidents caused us(raygun, klinton, bushy), and now all “THIER BILLS” we have to pay. We suffered three extra regiemes that led nowhere from them.
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