Word: speeches
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...Wrong question," she suggests. "Did he believe his own speech? I don't think...
...Tuesday, by contrast, when he asked Congress for a second major stimulus effort in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, he arrived ready to rumble. In place of extended arms, Obama accused Republicans of presiding "over the decision-making" that led to the financial crisis and then handing it "over to others to solve." He decried his GOP opponents for "waxing political about fiscal responsibility," adding, with an uncustomary bit of sharp sarcasm, "It's a sight to see." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...Obama tried to make that point in his speech. "There are those who claim we have to choose between paying down our deficits on the one hand, and investing in job creation and economic growth on the other," he said. "This is a false choice." But as pointed as the speech was at times, it was also notable for what it did not say. Obama didn't call his new package of government spending a stimulus, which it clearly was. He didn't say how much it would cost. He gave few details of how it would be paid...
...speech was certainly very general," says Rob Puentes, an expert on infrastructure investment at Brookings, who was still trying to work out on Tuesday afternoon what Obama had meant hours earlier when he called for a "boost in investment in the nation's infrastructure...
...former economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was recently invited to the White House for a jobs summit, is more aghast at the vagueness of the speech. "He did not give one dollar figure," says Holtz-Eakin. "He did not explain how anything is being paid...