President Obama’s Weekly Address – 03/07/09
In his March 7th weekly address, the President capped off a busy week in Washington remarking on new lending guidelines aimed at lowering mortgage payments; an initiative to generate funds for small business and college loans; the release of his administration’s first budget which includes $2T in deficit reduction, and the start of long overdue health care reform.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I believe Barack Obama has the mettle to turn this economic situation around. I don’t know exactly how long he’s been in office…but I DO know that it has not been 100 days yet. The Cable News Circuit is as impatient as any entity at this point; but what I believe to be rationale is exercising patience as individuals, communities, states, and a collective nation.
Most economists understood that 2009 (and a large part of 2010) was going to be rough economic times. We’re in a BIG HOLE! As far as I can tell, Obama is focused on a LONG-TERM economic upswing….and a fundamental restructuring of budget and policy practices.
As we know, patience is a virtue….but it hasn’t been an AMERICAN virtue in quite a while. Which leads me to my point of interest….. I will be watching the ways in which President Obama manages the economic realities and political bargaining of his first term. This is where the MOST drama will be centered…
Suggestion: Barack, get Timothy Geithner some help…you NEED a STRONG economic team!
March 11th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Hi guys! This Conference sounds to be great! They have very interesting panels on identity and a featured panel on Barak Obama and you can also make a real African Safari…
The Institute of Identity Research (IDmap) announces an international conference
on Identity Politics on the Internet to be held in Kenya on the 27th to 29th of
August 2009. The aim of the Conference is to create discourse in the area of
Identity politics on the Internet and other related topics.
The Conference will be graced by several leading scholars who have written and
researched extensively on issues of Identity. We hope that this conference will
result in solutions and better understanding of the problems facing issues of
identity in the contemporary context.
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
IDENTITY POLITICS ON THE INTERNET
August 27-29, 2009
Organized by Institute of Identity Research (IDmap)
http://www.idmap-conferences.net
Will be held in Amboseli Wildlife National Park, Kenya
Featured panel: Barack Obama’ Election and Kenyan politics of Identity:
Will he identify himself with the World or with his People?
• The Dead line for submission of the Abstracts is 01.05.2009 (200-500 words)
in Word or PDF formats
• The Dead line for submission of full-text papers is 01.07.2009
Preliminary program of the Conference includes the following panels:
• Kenyan 2007 Presidential elections and the Internet
• Traditions and Identity in Kenyan politics: Barak Obama as a Luo
representative of Kenyan identity politics
• Facebook and Identity: do old ethnicity definitions still matter?
• World Identity politics: Case-studies and Comparative Analysis
• Parties and recruitment in the digital world
• Gender, ethnicity and empowerment: what is better to be a white man or a
black woman?
• When religion comes to the Internet: the new ways to build and reinforce
religious identity
• Government on the Internet: new ways to preserve Nation-state and its
identity on the Net
• New English and E-Linguistic: jargon and vocabulary of Internet campaigns
Participants are welcomed to join the following working groups:
• Computers and identity
• Culture and identity
• Mathematical expressions of identity
• Internet and Politics
• Internet Vocabulary
Best Identity MA/PhD Thesis work award:
During the conference the Institute will award the best MA/PhD work submitted
for the evaluation. The work should reveal an original and innovative approach
in the field of Identity with its expression on the Internet. Information
regarding submission procedure can be found on our site or through direct
contact of our Administrators.
http://www.idmap.net
March 12th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Thanks! I’ll add this as a post to the blog.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:38 am
I don’t know why people are so impatient. Obama has on numerous times had to remind Americans he “inherited” this mess. The bailouts didn’t start with him and the job losses are not due to his Administration. I admire him for wanting to be President during a time when the country is in economic turmoil.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:38 am
People look at inheritance as a gain. A relative dies we inherite money. Perhaps goods, not their debts. “Our country’s inheritance” is the opposite type of inheritance. We were left no small token, no tidbits nor crumbs. Not even a small seed to plant. We were left to replant our own. From soil, to planting of seeds, to roots, to trunks, to branches, to stems, to leaves, th to a new beginning… Imagine the time process in that! This is where time and patience will need to be a factor for all of us. Patience, what a beautiful quality to give to our children. No Magic Genie was given from the last administration to our President Obama’s administration. Of course not. Just as children do not lilke to part with their toys, The Bush administration left us with no inheritance so to speak. They used Their Magic Genie for eight years, then fled with the lamp. Mr. President Obama, I pray only the best for you on your upside down, inside out inheritance. Perhaps our last administration will sell us their Magic Genie for say , a few Trillion???