Obama Speech
Non-Comprehensive Issues Checklist:

Economy – We can fix it if we stop fucking around.  Lending fund, cramdowns, vague bank fixes.
Healthcare – We’re working on it, we’re totally going to fix it.
Social Security
Education – GI Bill, but with America Corps.  Shame the dropouts!
Environment/Energy – Cap & trade, subsidies for renewables.  Clean coal.
Bipartisanship
Civil rights/liberties
BushCo. Accountability
Detainees
Iraq
Iran
Afghanistan
Gaza
Manimals
Mars, Bitches!

Issues list will be tersely updated throughout the address.

9:52 – "With the deficit we inherited" is actually an applause line. (Eli)

9:50 – Read to their CHILDREN, dude!  Please don’t go all Bush Syntax on us now! (WT)

9:50 – OK. If the MSNBC voter thingy IS right, GOP congresspeople are screwed. (BT)

9:50 – Eww. (Eli)

9:49 – Nelson twins make a Lieberman sandwich (Jane)

9:49 – If you don’t stay in school, you hate America!  Almost sounds like he wants to make education a mandate. (Eli)

9:49 – "But whatever the training may be, every American will need to get more than a high school diploma.  And dropping out of high school is no longer an option.  It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country – and this country needs and values the talents of every American." (Scarecrow) 

9:48 – Dropping out of high school won’t be tolerated?  Oooh, somebody better tell Bristol Palin’s baby daddy! (WT)

9:48 – Don’t be a fool! Stay in school! (BT)  

9:48 – Charter schools? (Eli)

9:46 – "We have the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation."  Hey, quit dissing the Republican base, dude! (PW)

9:45 – Now if he can only find a cure for Republicanism. (WT)

9:45 – "Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year." (Eli)

9:44 – "…Seeking a cure for cancer in our time."  I’m on board with that.  Looking forward to Republicans branding themselves as pro-cancer. (Eli)

9:43 – Nancy is GIDDY and jumps the gun!  Easy, tiger! (WT)

9:42 – Err, didn’t the Germans "invent the automobile"? Just sayin’. (BT)

9:42 – "As for our auto industry, everyone recognizes that years of bad decision-making and a global recession have pushed our automakers to the brink.  We should not, and will not, protect them from their own bad practices.  But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.  Millions of jobs depend on it.  Scores of communities depend on it.  And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."  Time to come home, Marcy.  (Scarecrow)

9:41 – Clean coal.  Feh. (Eli)

9:40 – Obama discusses global warming.  Inhofe’s head explodes, thus proving that Al Gore is fat. (WT)

9:40 – And I think I just heard cap-and-trade.  Plus $15 billion in subsidies. (Eli)

9:39 – The MSNBC McCain voters/Obama voters tracker has to be wrong. (BT)

9:39 – Republicans wheezing and gasping from the strain of applauding for a Socialist Commie. (WT)

9:39 – America needs to return to being a technology leader, starting with renewable energy. (Eli)

9:38 – What’s up with China moving ahead of us on energy efficiency? (Eli)

9:37 – "Government didn’t supplant private enterprise, it catalyzed private enterprise." (Eli)

9:37 – Examples of how America rose to the occasion in the middle of crises before, and we can do it again. (Eli)

9:36 – Shorter Obama:  Grover Norquist can SUCK. ON. THIS. (WT)

9:36 – My budget will be limited, and we’ll all have to make sacrifices, because Bush left me with a really really shitty hand. (Eli)

9:33 – "It’s not about helping banks, it’s about helping people."  Which is good, because most of us are people. (Eli)

9:32 – Lieberpuss looks like Droopy Dawg (bmaz)

9:32 – Yeah, I know the banks suck, but letting the economy continue crashing would suck more. (Eli)

9:30 – Vague but tough-sounding bank fixes. (Eli)

9:28 – Step 2: Mortgage cramdowns. (Eli)

9:27 – Step 1: Lending fund to get credit flowing again. (Eli)

9:27 – This speech is SOOOOOO pessimistic! [/Bobby "Used Saturn Dealer" Jindal] (WT)