[Rick Lee]

I heard the speech had 32 paragraphs, two of which were on nat. security, which was what he was supposed to talk about.

Like Obama, he says a lot of nothing and says it very well. If you had never been to America before and were dropped into the Pepsi Center to hear his speech, you'd think we were mired in another Great Depression, people starving in the street, homeless everywhere. Just unreal the doom and gloom and false characterizations he gave. Did you catch the line about rising credit card debt? Yeah, that's Bush's fault too. I don't know anyone who's doing worse now than when he was POTUS. And I know I'm paying less in taxes now than I'd have paid, HAD I EARNED AS MUCH THEN as I do now. Thank you Bush, no thanks Bubba.

Which alliances are frayed that he thinks Obama would mend? France and Germany both have pro-American heads of state now and the one leader Bush liked the most, Putin, is turning into a real thug. How would Obama change that? Were we friendly with Iran when Clinton was in office and Bush ruined that one too? Which alliances are frayed? I'd love to know that and better yet, how Obama would fix anything short of total appeasment.