It just shows how ignorant you are about the 95% of the population in a lower SES than you are Tucker.

Lots of people in this country do in fact work their asses off every day, not that you would ever see anybody other than your maid who did so. But it must be a harsh job cleaning up the filth of the likes of you.

Pitiful sniping as usual, missing the point. Tonight was the final nail in Reagan's coffin. The Gipper lost.

Bravo Mr. Carlson, you have unearthed the 'inconvenient truth' in all of this! Not to get too old on you, but I remember a guy named Mondale asking "Where's the Beef"? It later became a marketing jingo with legs, I think perpetrated by Wendy's? It was a long time ago.

I just don't get it either and neither do Financial Markets, so in that I feel somewhat assurred that I haven't completely lost my nut. It just makes no sense. It is spending for the sake of reving up an economy. It is a 'shot in the dark' Program. Sarah Palin could have pulled this off just as well, and we'd all be scratching our heads still. Of course, Sarah would have sent us all new credit cards and packed us off to Bergdorf, but I gotta say it might have been a lot more fun than what we're looking at here. What happens when this Program runs out of money? Where is the recurring economic benefit? Where is the sustaining Industry?

Where's the Industry? Where are the new products? Where are the new alliances? This President's Program looks like something cooked up by a man with lukewarm Math SAT scores. I would have loved to know more about the Trains he's building out west, but no detail and no real spending there either. The cure to Cancer is not just a pipe dream, it's a Bong Hit. And still not much money in those programs either. A full blown Mancession is going on in the Construction and Manufacturing Segments of our Economy and still no real jobs for these folks?

I gotta tell you, I have been wrong plenty of times in my life, but I don't remember ever being so completely wrong that I simply had no clue what they were doing. This time I am completely at a loss, like I have missed 3 months of school or something. I just don't get it. I really don't. I think we're headed off the edge of a cliff here. Debt destroys Economic Health. Does no one understand this? We are going to go from what Ted Turner referred to as 'spending beyond our means' as individuals to spending beyond our means collectively? How does this help?

Somebody please find Ted and ask him how anything has changed here?

I just awoke to the news that Obama intends to cure cancer. To hell with New Year's resolution. Why quit now?

"never bothered to explain precisely how all that spending was going to fix the economy."

I'm not nearly qualified to try and explain the stimulus package, but to answer the question simply: Developing the new green industry and repairing our infrastructure (with this part he went into specifics about non-gov't contracts etc.) were two examples he gave of where the money is going and how job growth from that spurs the economy. It's just bonus that spurring the economy in these ways fixes other huge problems we have at the same time! Try actually paying attention.

The only memorable episode of 'Crossfire' was the one when Jon Stewart called you a dick. And you are. There's no use for you to be a commentator. I already know what you are going to say before you say it. Tucker, just like you love to say, you make me want to puke.

Tucker, sadly you've demonstrated again why you lost your perch @ MSNBC (and CNN). What you fail to acknowledge is how President Obama had to address the absolute fear and paralysis that existing out here because people see "their" economic well being crumbling. He accomplished this by lifting the critically important sense of "promise" which you dismiss.

Time to look for a another vocation. Your attempts at representing the "loyal opposition" are failing.

Personal attacks on Mr Carlson does not resolve the fact that some americans are being duped and robbed by our politicians. Some Americans get it...and still are being robbed.

Amen, Brother Tucker!
There was a window of time when I had TRIED to give this guy a chance but when he punted and let Lady Pelosi & Hairy Reid write The Bankrupt America Act of 2009, I realized -- sadly -- that BHO is indeed the puppet the Pelosi & Co. had solidly lined up behind.
One can't help but wonder how different things would've turned out if Hillary had won. Ain't no way she would have let Pelosi & Co. call the shots which explains all the back-stabbing endorsements of DEMs behind BHO against HRC.
I hear an "I TOLD YOU SO" in the distance...

Is there a bigger Hack than Tucker Carlson? As the commentator before me stated there is no reason to believe you are going to get an unbiased opinion from a guy who is so politically right-wing and so hates Obama but claims to not. BULLSHIT! You can hear and read the contempt. It was him who the day after the election had the nerve to tell those on MSNBC including Gene Robinson to "tone it down" and not be so excited. Gene was talking about growing up in the South and now felt joy at a Black man becoming Pres. but that somehow according to Mr. Carlson was too much was insulting. He is a prick and should go back to what he does best...picking out out funny looking bow-ties!

Curing cancer, eh? Reminded me of a video I saw during the campaign...
http://salvomag.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/obama-and-the-c.html

Tucker, sir, you have hit the nail right on the head. I couldn't agree with your whole commentary more. Thanks for the nice touch, and the laughs that went along with it.

Tucker - You said the President lost YOU in the first five minutes. The problem is the President had approx. 70% of the PUBLIC at Hello?! We will get the country we DESERVE if the American people continue to view THEIR own role to be simpleton judges on AMERICAN IDOL?!

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

IKIDYOUNOT -

Actually, according to the Gallup, the President has an approval rating of less than 60%, about 3 points lower than Bush's after his first month in office.

Shouting in caps doesn't make up for ignorance of facts.

Tucker, After reading all the other blogs and "news" about the speech, I thought I was imagining the part about curing cancer. Thanks for saving my recollection.
Here is the thing.... In an episode of West Wing, the president wants to revive his popularity and/or take the focus off something else (I ferget which- note to lefties, ferget deliberately misspelled), so his groups says, hey, let's tell America that since we already landed on the moon, and you want to pull a JFK, you'll cure cancer!
So this West Wing, run by the real life Josh, is imitating the TV show because they don't really have a clue about how adults do this. Too bad they didn't get Allison Janney for Press Secretary.
So, the President is going to 1) Balance the budget by spending more 2) cradle to grave free education, cough, but this time Superior Education 3) free health care 4) money robbed from the rich to give to the poor suckers who got lured into cheap houses that ended up not being so free 5) checks in the mail 6) tax cuts for all (except the evil ones who have, you know, toooooo much already and can afford to help a brother), and in his spare time, a game of basketball and a cure for cancer. That about right?

Tucker, what were you looking for in regards to specifics? The man gave a 1 hour speech on the economy and the almost $800B stimulus package. Had he given a day long address on the stimulus package I would have expected much more than plans and markers, but that's not the case. I think Ali Velshi had it right when he told Ed Rollins that Obama's points were specific enough that you could hold the President accountable for what he plans to do and determine whether or not he's accomplishing that (ie. cap and trade for carbon emissions, repeal of tax cuts for households making $250k or more, regulatory reform on financial services).
As for cancer, he did say that "in our time" we'd find a cure for it. One could argue whether he meant within his term or within his lifetime, but that argument would be fruitless and should be relegated to the pundits, like yourself, that intelligent people dismiss in favor of stimulating debate. What his comment really sheds light on is this administration's view of science in comparison to the previously held view.

Tucker,

You loved Bush -- LOVED BUSH -- while he drove us in a flaming chariot to hell. So much for your perceptive commentary. Self-serving, partisan horse crap, that's what you serve up day and night. Impossible to take you seriously. I still cringe when I recall your defense against those who opposed the Bush tax cuts: class warfare. What a jerk.

Even when I don't completely agree with you, I like you, Tucker. I knew that "cancer" line was going to get the reaction it did (and maybe should have), but the point is, we need to invest in science and the future. I happen to like the President's positive, can-do attitude and feel it's exactly what we need to pull us along and eventually out of the stagnation we've suffered. So he took a little poetic license -- big deal. The bigger idea of running the country like a corporation that is responsible to its shareholders (us) and spending money to make money seems perfectly reasonable and necessary. I applaud the Prez -- and I still like you.

funk,
I read IKID's comment as saying that he lost 70% of the public when he said hello. And then there was somewhat of a plea for people to pay attention rather than being pissed of that X was voted off idol.
Also pointing out the approval rating comparison to Bush smacks of partisianship and leaves yourself wide open for the whole "Obama actually won his election" comment.

Tucker is without his own show, no wonder......

So where were you Mr Carlson the last 8 years?. Where's the beef?. Really?. Well I suppose if you become the leader for the free world and the previous bunch of childish thugs laid waste and left you a pile of SH%$#T then one would suppose it would take more than a few weeks to "cure". The "beef" has been stolen. Obama has to buy a new herd of cattle, feed, raise them, I.E. start from scratch.
Part of TRUE leadership is to inspire the population and ask them to actually partake in the renewal, unlike Bush who said to go shopping when the going got tough. I for one do not think Obama is some messiah but he sure as hell is better than what we just had for 8 years.
The G.O.P. looks beyond pathetic, if Jindal is their answer, GOD help them.
I can bet Obama has worked "harder" than Tucker, Bush, Cheney, and most of the G.O.P. to get to where he is today, so I suppose he knows a thing or two about starting with nothing.
If Tucker, Palin, Joe the Plumber, Limbaugh and Jindal are what passes for Conservative thought, then please keep thinking!.

Tucker!

Give the guy his proper due, he does give a great speech. After 8 years of watching Bush bumble his way through a speech it is such a relief to hear coherency from our President.

Having said all that, he lost me too with his "hardest working people on Earth" comment. You point out the other doozies in there as well, but this one got my goat. I have friends and business relationships all over the world and I am sick of apologizing for our arrogance. Many people, in many places around the world, work very hard. Also, it's a horrible comment in light of that the global economic crisis that we find ourselves in originated right here in America.

Maybe the rest of the world would have preferred that the Americans on Wall Street worked a little less hard.....

Tucker Carlson is a callow boy. You saw it in that look of a deer caught in the headlights look he had when John Stewart called him out. He is glib and shallow - a member of the W frat. He is skeptical of The President's speech and yet he carried water for W for all those years as he spouted badly mangled doggerel and led us over the cliff. I see the comments of a whole lot of lemmings here. Praising him for this empty commentary. You folks love him because he touts your party line. And you won't let the facts get in the way of perpetuating your failed right wing dogma.

funkdome -

I am referring to the Polls AFTER last night's address.
People are so easily swayed by a superficial speech.

Tucker--You're analysis is brilliant! What a pundit! Full of hot air and no discernable intelligence.