Good Speech....But Questions Remain

I have to say it was good to hear President Obama sounding more like a leader last night when he addressed Congress and the nation on the economy. It was good to hear reassuring tones rather than constant talk of crisis and gloom and doom scenarios. Why last night he even referred to it as the "worst economic crisis in decades" rather than the usual revisionist history talk of "worst ever" or "worst since the great depression."
I was also pleased to hear him talk about reforming education and putting the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of parents and children.
That said he made a few remarks that made wonder..he claimed that he was NOT a proponent of big government yet his current spending package and additional spending will bloat our government much bigger than it is now.
After getting in a partisan shot about the deficit he inherited, he then claimed that he will "reduce the deficit by half" by the end of his first term. Now I'm no math expert but after seeing the amount of spending in just the first month in office I'd like to see how he plans to do that.
And finally I'd like to refer to what may have been his George Bush #41 "Read My Lips" moment. President Obama guaranteed that "nobody who earns under $250,000 will pay a dime in new taxes." For effect he then repeated "not a dime."
You may recall that Mr. Bush went back on his famous "Read my Lips" pledge to not raise taxes and he was reminded of it constantly by both the media and Democrats and it cost him re election in 1992.
Trouble is if President Obama breaks his "not a dime" pledge he'll have one thing going for him that Mr. Bush didn't.....a main stream media that's willing to look the other way and cover for him...and that's what shim sez.