Every Saturday morning, I get the pleasure of producing the President’s Weekly Radio Address and the opposing party’s response for KGMI. While I was waiting for the January 17 address to upload at www.whitehouse.gov, I scrolled down and found an archived message from December 29, 2007, about the U.S. economy by our outgoing President George Herbert Hoover Bush, I- I mean George Walker Bush. In the message from just over a year ago, Bush briefly mentions the “high oil prices and softness in the housing market,” but then goes straight into his spiel that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” I don’t want to play the game of Kick the Lame Duck here, but I think the recording speaks for itself. What I will say is that I hope our more tech-savvy incoming president will continue to post his addresses in a more timely fashion each Saturday morning than our outgoing president did.

January 20th, 2009 UPDATE

Well, I certainly got more than I wished for from our new tech-savvy President Barack Obama. Within moments of being sworn in, the Obama administration completely revamped the President’s Web site at www.whitehouse.gov and took down all of Bush’s archived radio addresses, making the link above useless right after I posted it (it’s fixed now). Obama’s transition Web site at change.gov is already obsolete. And the President has officially replaced the traditional Weekly Radio Address with a YouTube-style Weekly Video Address. KGMI will continue to broadcast the audio portion of the President’s address each week during The Saturday Morning Show with Joe & Patti. But at this time, the less internet-fluent Republican Party is giving no sign as to where or what form their weekly response will be. Stay tuned this Saturday morning to find out if they come up with something.