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Remember how George Bush used the "politics of fear" during a national crisis to "scare voters" into approving his pre-existing agenda? Maybe it's just me. Anyway, here are some choice quotes from Obama’s speech yesterday:

We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime.

I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible.

If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years.

We could lose a generation of potential and promise.

a bad situation could become dramatically worse.

we won't get out of it by simply waiting for a better day to come, or relying on the worn-out dogmas of the past.

Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy.

If we act with the urgency and seriousness that this moment requires.

we need to act boldly and act now to reverse these cycles

This must be a time when leaders in both parties put the urgent needs of our nation above our own narrow interests.

For every day we wait or point fingers or drag our feet, more Americans will lose their jobs. More families will lose their savings. More dreams will be deferred and denied. And our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse.

I know the scale of this plan is unprecedented, but so is the severity of our situation.

God Bless America

Wow, I'm sold.

Posted by edelfenbein at January 9, 2009 8:30 AM