Presidential Address!

I just finished watching Barack Obama's Presidential Address to Congress. I caught the back end of it, but I'm glad that I actually got to watch some of it. What I was able to get out of it was this: Right now, the Obama Administration isn't so popular, and they know it. Obama addressed credit issues in our country, and talked about how there's only a short 14 months left in his time at office, unless he is voted back into the White House at the 2012 election. Many families in our country are facing house foreclosure, and part of the reason of this is because of the credit issues and debt that has increased over the past few years. Obama talked about how when George Bush was up at the podium, he asked for money to help the banks out of their deep and rising debt to the country, and how Obama himself was infuriated at such a request. He understands now how Bush must have felt, and although he knows that it is the unpopular choice, Obama asked that same question to Congress. Obama, like Bush, wants to help the banks. Thinking ahead though, he also knows that there is not a whole lot that he can do in 14 months, but he said that he is going to try his hardest. Towards the end, he gave a great line that I believe can be very empowering, no matter who says it, or when: "We are stronger than the nation we live in."