The response to Ed Henry was priceless. Wouldn't it be nice if we all took time to think before speaking and know the content of which we share? My thought at that moment went back to Bush and WMD. If a President reacted to everything he heard we would be in a controversial position of reacting rather than responding.

Everyone says he was enraged at the reporter. I don't see it.

It has been proven that when a country is in a recession the best way to stimulate it back into working order is to spend big on things like infrastructure. If Obama did what Hoover did (basically nothing) we would all be a lot worse off. And yes, Omar, investing in the future is a good idea and necessary in order to prevent America from falling even farther behind most of the other powerful countries out there in regards to healthcare and education, both of which are ranked disturbingly low in almost every world ranking system. It seems to me that most of the people who live paycheck to paycheck are fine with Obama's plan. These lower income people have been struggling for years and are excited to see real change in healthcare (like finally having some) and education (so their children will have a better chance to succeed. To those of you who are wary and skeptical of Obama's ideas, give him a freaking chance. The war mongering, money hoarding, class elitists had their eight years and screwed the pooch. Maybe (and I know this sounds crazy) we should give the new administration more than a few months before we start saying his plan doesn't work. By that I mean a plan has to be enacted and finished before its fruits are ready for inspection. Blah blah blah. Maybe we just need to split the country in half so its not so polarized.

I like the waiting a few days to respond to the bonus was a good idea and the outrage is ridiculous. Obama's "i think before i speak" response was great because if he would have responded the day he found out he might have sounded like bush, and by that i mean sounding very unintelligent on the subject matter and creating a sound bite that makes himself and America look like idiots. It's good to have a president that at least sounds smart and is not subject to public ridicule.

Every time you hear the word "invest", it means "take money out of your pocket and spend it the way we (the government) think it should be spent". Do you think we'll ever get transparency on how our money is being "invested"? I don't. Yet it will be another promise that Obama breaks and doesn't get called on.He's broken promises, he's arrogant and his only solution to every problem is throwing money at it. YOUR MONEY! And yes...his children's money! His saying "that's not just my opinion" (which he say's quite often) is an attempt to gain credibility on his ideas. If you can't get credibility on your own AS THE PRESIDENT, that means A) you don' t know what you're talking about or B) you can't sell it. In the case of 'reducing the deficit by lower health care costs', it's probably both."We're doing everything we can to reduce the deficit". By what, spending more? How do you reduce debt by making more debt? Successful companies only invest and improve infrastructure when times are good and they're making money. That's the difference between government and private sector. The government doesn't have to make a profit, so it is wasteful and bureaucratic. Obama is just making it 100 times more wasteful and bureaucratic.It doesn't take much to be outraged. The American people expressed outrage immediately at AIG. Saying you had to think about it two days is a little far fetched. If 9/11 happened on Obama's watch, would it take him the same time to express outrage? He needed the time to SPIN how a bailout bill with provisions of granting AIG all the bonuses they had in their contracts was signed by the drafter of the bill (Dodd) and by Obama himself. Again, he never gets called on that.

I liked this response. I think the reporter was trying to get a little to cute by throwing Obama's children into the first question.