Still the Man

A month and a half into his first term and our President is still working hard and making us proud. Here's this week's video address:



Here's the kind of rich folks -- who was a fully functioning contributor to the disaster of the Bush/Cheney Administration that left Obama with as few options as they could -- that he's up against while he tries to pull the U.S.A. into the 21st Century:



Bonus interview: Obama spent 35 minutes with The New York Times and even called later for more clarification. Favorite quotes:

Q. The first six weeks have given people a glimpse of your spending priorities. Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?

A. You know, let’s take a look at the budget – the answer would be no.

And:

What I’m refusing to do and what I’ve instructed my staff that we will not do is to try to kick the can down the road, to try to paper over problems, try to use gimmicks on budgets, try to pretend that health care is not an issue, to continue with a situation where we are exporting – importing – more and more oil from the middle east, continuing with a situation in which average working families are seeing their wages flat line. At some point, we’ve got to take on these problems.

Let's get his back.