Obama's Speech

Dave and I watched Obama's speech yesterday. His teleprompter strategy is very different from other presidents: he has two teleprompters placed to his left and right and he keeps looking back and forth, which takes quite some skill. That gives the impression that he is looking at the whole audience in the room. But he never looks straight into the camera, making it seem like he never really looks at his biggest audience, which is watching him on TVs all over the nation. Seems less intimate to me...
There were a lot of points I agreed with but I have to say that I strongly disagree on his call to increase the percentage of college graduates. In the US, a college education is a huge financial burden on families. Unfortunately, that probably won't change. The problem is that you need a college degree to get a decent job. Shouldn't we try to change that by offering true alternatives to a college education that prepare people for a career (e.g., apprenticeships, trade schools)?
For me, the biggest kicker was this statement from Obama:
"We are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it; scores of communities depend on it; and I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
Honey, I hate to break it to you but the automobile was not invented in the US but by Carl Benz in Germany. Didn't anybody check his speech for factual errors? This is pretty embarrassing, if you ask me.