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Obama’s weekly address: Saturday – March 14, 2009

Paul -V- — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:23:29 +0000

Obama annouces steps to improve the safety of our nation’s food supply. He also appoints Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Obama’s weekly address: Saturday – March 07, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:17:03 +0000

This week, Obama acknowledges times are tough and lists day-by-day actions that the government is doing to help rebuild the economy.

The President also warns there are tough choices ahead, and his administration will use honest accounting methods to deal with them. His office ended no-bid contracts, and has started the process of reforming healthcare.

Obama’s weekly address: Saturday – February 28, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:30:02 +0000

This week’s address for your viewing enjoyment:

The main message is that Obama says he’s willing to fight entrenched interests that are not working in the interests of the American people. It’ll be interesting so see how he does.

Obama’s weekly address: Saturday – February 21, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:29:51 +0000

Here’s this week’s address. Interesting semi-related observation: As of this post, the video isn’t at Whitehouse.org – so I had to search around for it. Also, this is the first time I’ve seen the address with subtitles.

In this episode: President Obama says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will have an impact as soon as a few weeks from now, in the form of the quickest and broadest tax cut in history. Obama also lists the benefits of the stimulous.

Obama’s weekly address: Saturday – January 31st, 2009

Paul -V- — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:56:43 +0000

We only have two more Weekly Addresses to post in order to catch up. Apologies to everyone’s RSS feed.

1/31/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo.

In this episode: Obama focuses on the financial crisis, acknowledges that Americans are suffering, warns the recovery will take years, and addresses CEO abuses.

Obama’s weekly address: February 7, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:22:52 +0000

In an effort to catch up with past Obama addresses, here’s the one from Saturday – February 7th, 2009:

2/7/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo.

Obama’s weekly address: February 14, 2009

Paul -V- — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:08:00 +0000

Every Saturday President Obama posts his weekly address on the internet. I can’t believe we at WIOD haven’t already started posting these.

Thankfully, we aren’t that far behind – so I’ll start from the Valentine’s Day address two days ago.

Topics: Economic stimulus, Economic crisis, Hope