State of the Union Address

[dm1333]

Meh.  What are your thoughts?  My first was that somebody must have been flashing the applause sign at every brief pause.

[longeyes]

When men who should and often do know better stand to applaud lies, not once, but many times, we are in deep, deep trouble.

[dm1333]

There were one or two things I agreed with, mainly when he talked about energy or education.  But I also don't think that he'll follow through on any of it.  My "meh" was directed at how flat I thought the speech was.  For a person who is a great speech giver this was below average.

At least I didn't have to see Nancy Pelosi doing her imitation of a jack in the box, popping up every so often to start applauding.   

Mitch Daniels did a pretty good job with his speech.

[slingshot]

He said many things that I agree with conceptually.  History has shown that when getting from the words to the deed, we are miles apart.

This was a political speech.  Oh gee, what a surprise?  But this was the first big speech that Obama has made where he is trying to verbally move to the middle versus the left (opps, I mean progressive) leaning way of leading and governing.  He will chant these words over and over again for the next year.  He will seem to be representing everyone or the middle.  But he aint. 

Energy development....  he nixed the Keystone pipeline.  He is catering to environmentalists that are primarily left leaning.

[gunsmith]

Energy development....  he nixed the Keystone pipeline.  He is catering to environmentalists that are primarily left leaning.

This.

I live off grid and rely on solar, his minions at solyndra trashed a buch of good solar components.
I have to drive long distances for about any errand, the pipeline might have reduced the price of gas a bit.
( plus I've met a lot of pipeline workers here in northern NV, they're all awesome)

I had to stop watching the durned speech because my yelling was upsetting the dogs, whose feelings I care a lot more about then the cretins. I'm pretty angry.

[Blakenzy]

A more condensed, honest version of what Obama meant to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeUWuX6tBw

[seeker_two]

You mean you guys watched it?.... 

If I wanted to listen to a liar talk, I'd go back to my old state job.....

[longeyes]

He talked as if the last three years of HIM never happened.  We know he's delusional; let's hope the American voter isn't.

He still pretends that taxing "the rich" is a cure-all when we all know it's the camel's nose under the tent for overall income equalization.  There was zero of substance about dealing with the mounting costs of Social Security and Medicare, nothing about Obamacare with its attendant impact on both indebtedness and medical delivery.

In short, we're still in never-never land, and for many Americans that's just fine.

[HankB]

What I heard:

1. He wants to raise taxes on "the rich" . . . but I remember reading that when the 13th Amendment was being debated, the income tax was aimed at millionaires. (And a million back then was real money.) Hang onto your wallet.

2. He wants to spend even more money.

3. Get ready for more Solyndras.

What he left out or glossed over:

1. By nixing the Keystone pipeline, he's forged an energy alliance between Canada and China.

2. Almost nothing about Obamacare - even he recognizes its unpopularity.

3. Much of the "predatory lending" for mortagages was the result of government arm-twisting thanks to the Community Reinvestment Act.

4. Food prices up 25% or so, gas prices up 84%, national debt up 43% . . . just since he took office.

This guy has got to go in the next election.

Seriously.

[longeyes]

He does.

But what must give us all pause is that with the nation at a precipice there was embarrassing chumminess in evidence all around.  Never have so many looked so self-contented in the face of imminent disaster.  And there they were, yet again, the Republicans comminging with their opposition on "date night," trivializing the vast divide between them over so many essentials. What a bloody travesty, almost as bad as the standing ovations given to a President who routinely dishonors the Constitution all of them have sworn to defend.