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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Debrief: Obama's Speech

I have to admit Obama's Berlin speech was pretty good, and he took a very centrist stance on economic issues. I think it will be a success and his poll numbers should shoot up quite a bit. His speech did not alienate conservatives, and he invoked Regan's speaking style many times. Fittingly the speech was made a Victory Column (close to Brandenburg Gate where Regan made his speech).

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Here are the Talking Points from the speech
  • Stabilizing and Winning War on Terror
  • Uniting US and Europe
  • Breaking down barriers to trade and information
  • Human rights
  • Preventing nuclear prolifieration
  • Environmental Responsibility
  • Accommodating the changes of Globalization
  • American Intervention OK
As information comes in I will add more, but the verdict for now is that it was a good speech

Even though I am not an Obama supporter, the economic policies he highlighted in this speech are actually very centrist and I actually agree with most of them.

UPDATE 11:00 AM PST: Stock Market Stabilized during the speech!

UPDATE 11:20 AM PST: McCain Response on CNN

UPDATE 11:40 AM PST: Stock Market is falling even further after the speech

UPDATE 12:04 PM PST: Summary of the McCain Response
  • Bad style for Obama to give a political speech overseas
  • Politicizing his fact finding trip
  • Changing his positions
UPDATE 1:00 PM PST: Markets close. All 3 indexes losing an average of 2.36%.

FINAL UPDATE: Reaction
Obama gave us lots of insight into what his presidency will be like. He will be a more Clintonian president than an Sharpton president. Though he is preaching leftist policies at home, in practice he will be a center-right politician- like Clinton. Though I thouroughly disagree with Clinton, his economic policies were fairly conservative. He expanded NAFTA, and helped liberlize the world economy. Contrary to what many liberals think, Obama will be this kind of a president.

What do you think about the policies he described in this speech?

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19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very good speech, defended American policy

Anonymous said...

This is a good speech, this is the kind of president we need!!!!

Anonymous said...

He has a good policy: not too liberal, not too conservative

MasterSpeculator said...

TURN ON THE LIBERAL SIRENS!!!
FLIP FLOP!!
I bet the left is quaking in their boots after a speech like this.

Anonymous said...

I didn't think it was a good speech. It was a lot of copying from earlier generations and Obama isn't very faithfull to his ideals anymore. It's what you say: a centrist speech. I want a liberal Obama!

Sanjay Krishnan said...

Well you really shouldn't make a politically charged speech out side the country. That's like using another country's stuff our dirty work.

Sanjay Krishnan said...

Remember to read the full text of the speech, then you can pick up the centrist tone.

Anonymous said...

See I agree with his economic policies here, but not when he is talking to unionized labor. He changes his views according to the audience.

Sanjay Krishnan said...

Good point, I agree

MasterSpeculator said...

BTW, if you guys want to have a chat type conversation use the chat function on the right.

Anonymous said...

Good thing he didn't say anything about gay rights or something like that.

MasterSpeculator said...

People in Germany addressed that issue before..

Anonymous said...

Yeah they addressed it well when Hitler was fuhrer lol

MasterSpeculator said...

Sanjay I think you are linking to the wrong article in the Digg article.

Sanjay Krishnan said...

K, someone else used dig on the transcript of the speech, I thought it was the same article

TrAdErPrInCe said...

I voted for Obama because he would stand up to conservative policies, not agree with them

TrAdErPrInCe said...

In this speech Obama was pro business, pro imperialism, and pro everything the democratic party is against

MasterSpeculator said...

Prince? I thought you were a conservative and you like to come to this site to "make fun of liberals"

MasterSpeculator said...

The digg article doesn't link to this post, it links to the transcript.