Remarks of President Barack Obama, Via YouTube

Well, we know President Barack Obama refused to give up his CrackBerry, and now he'll certainly cement his reputation as the hippest tech-generation president yet, with his first YouTube national address today on his administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan:

President Obama admits, toward the end of the talk, "I know that some are skeptical about the size and scale of this recovery plan."

I'll say. Man, that's one gargantuan expansion of government Obama's peddling, and there's debate whether the recovery package itself will stimulate the economy (Keynesian multipliers, and what not), rather than the natural recuperative powers of American hard work and initiative at the aggregate level, facilitated by incentives to produce, save, and invest through lower marginal tax rates.

On Thursday, Robert Barro, a Harvard University economist, labeled all of this leftist stimulus talk "Democratic voodoo economics."