Yes, but did he like the speech?
Ron Fournier of the AP:
President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again…the president used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to tap the deep well of American optimism — the never-say-die spirit that every president tries to capture in words. And great presidents embody. “We will rebuild. We will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before,” Obama said, echoing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan…
He sounded like Roosevelt who, after closing banks briefly in the first days of his presidency, stoked the embers of American optimism…Like Roosevelt, Obama asked Americans to unite against pessimism…Like Roosevelt, Obama said his government had already provided the machinery to create jobs, improve access to health care, free up credit and help struggling homeowners…like Roosevelt, he challenged Americans to help fix the nation’s woes.
Like Roosevelt, will the president stick it to The Forgotten Man with tax increases and other foolish policies (eg, banking) that only serve to prolong a downturn?