Live blogging of Obama speech

10:33 p.m.: Finally, some common sense. The 2012 election is going to be tough for Obama if Bobby Jindal runs. The Republicans wisely chose him for the GOP response. Jindal is delivering reality to Obama's fantasyland economics.

10:11 p.m.: Just as I predicted. More of the same. This guy has nothing new. It is the same old tired spend, spend, spend philosophies of the past. The only change we can count on is the change in our sofa  that we will desperatly be looking for when his stupid bailout and nationalization plans ruin our economy. How hard is it to look to history and see the  failures of government intervention in the economy? Just look to the Great Depression. For a more recent example, Japan languished for a decade before the government stopped intervening and the economy rebounded immediately. Markets don't like uncertainly and that is all you get when the government is involved.

Obama, the wrong choice at the wrong time. God have mercy on us.

10:08 p.m.: Finally, he shut up. Now let's hear some intelligent and realistic talk from Gov. Bobby Jindal.

10 p.m.: I agree with his wanting to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp, but I fear it may be harder than he thinks.

Obama already taking vacations

Marine One, with President Barack Obama and his family aboard, lands on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in Washington. The Obamas were returning from an overnight stay at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

President Barack Obama was in office less than three weeks and he has already taken his first vacation?!? And I thought I heard him say we were in the middle of an unprecedented crisis that required immediate action. I guess that means immediate action after he has some R & R.

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) -- President Barack Obama has given the Camp David mountaintop retreat rave reviews after his first visit there.

Obama called the hideaway in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains "beautiful" as he talked Monday about his weekend visit to the presidential retreat with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia.

"It was beautiful. The girls just had a great time. They had a lot of fun," Obama told reporters as he flew from the nation's capital to Indiana for a town hall-style meeting on the economic stimulus bill pending in the Senate. "You can see during the summer it's going to be a nice place to spend a lot of time."

Obama said he hit a few golf balls and played a little basketball while there.

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