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January 25, 2012 03:05 AM UTC
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Our problems are both short term emotional and long term structural….Give me long term structural proposals/solutions/vision.
Provide historical context for everything. We’re too short-sighted.
As much as I enjoy the partisan battle, avoid it tonight. We’re all in this together. Nature does not judge on political affiliation, it treats everyone as an adult. And, it’s brutal.
Inspire, arouse, confirm our shared values.
I can hope can’t I?
from you re the FL goings on
of Parsing Reality?
a Perry moment
Parsing, are you here?
– End job breaks for oversees labor
– Cover expenses for companies that bring jobs home
– Basic minimum tax for multinationals
– Tax break for Eric Cantor’s grumpy face.
is the Republican House member designated to stay away from the SOTU address to protect the Republican ideal from the inevitable corruption brought on by having to listen to the Kenyan Socialist Muslim’s Devil-empowered speech.
This way he can come back to his House colleagues tomorrow and restore them to their previous unrelenting, honesty driven selves.
Or something.
if he didn’t have to spend so much time scraping that smelly thing called Congress off his shoe . . .
would like to inform you that this was an election year speech. They have said so at least a dozen times already.
In case you forgot.
They are claiming that Republicans are going to make the Presidential election into a referendum on Barack Obama and his Presidency.
You think?
to do a “Home Alone” face slap on that one. Really? You think?
And here I thought all along the Republican obstructionism in Congress was all about creating jobs.
a small portion while driving through a Texas rain. I like what I heard.
The departure of Mr. “Home Alone”, himself, Larry Summers, seems to have wrought a change in the President.
If you have not already done so, I urge one and all to read “Confidence Men”, by Ron Suskind. My vote for his second Pulitzer.
that we can count on someone besides just Blitzer for that kind of deep, perceptive analysis.
Gingrich and Romney have had months to hone their stump speeches; Obama gives one SOTU address to Congress and makes both of their efforts look insignificant.
Their speeches are for the bat-shit crazy part of the GOP base that determines who wins the primary.
great speech. But, before I get worked up enough to make another run at kicking that ol’ football, I’d kind of like to see if he can hold it down in position for just a little while longer . . .
He’s been speaking for 5 minutes, but hasn’t said anything yet.
architect of the deficit
I just finished work and am too tired to watch the reply right now. How was it? Did he sell it?
Reading the comments here it sounds like it was a good list, but he didn’t close the sale with anyone.
Yes David. The glass if half empty again. What else could it be?
He took credit for saving GM, and spoke about immigration reform that specifically included NOT kicking out children of undocumented aliens (also born outside our borders) when they were “American through and through” and want to stay here to make America work. He spoke about doubling the number of trade complaints against China that W filed, and about giving companies incentives not to offshore jobs. (He might have said something about punitive measures against the ones that do, but I couldn’t devote my entire attention to the speech.)
He closed with a lengthy discussion about how he and some of his former foes, like Secretary Clinton, came together to take on the job of eliminating Osama bin Laden, thus punctuating for America that he was the one who accomplished that.
All in all, I think his speech deftly mixed optimism, inclusion, his accomplishments, and policy proposals that sound good and are guaranteed to be hated by the GOP. I hope Obama and the Democratic leaders in Congress can put the ball in the GOP’s court and make them explain why they won’t vote for them.
A speech is just a speech but I thought it was the strongest SOTU Obama has given and there seemed many more points at which the poor Repubs were forced to applaud than in the past. It was interesting watching all the exact moments when Boehner reluctantly decided that applause could not be avoided.
Loved the way Obama faced the class warfare complaint more squarely and forcefully than ever before and his strong support for American manufacturing and infrastructure building and rebuilding the prosperity of the middle class with the wealthiest paying their fair share. Time and again he returned to the American value of fairness, of the idea that hard work should be rewarded with a decent life, the ability to educate your children and have something for retirement.
Also liked the way he highlighted the job growth that has taken place under his administration as opposed to the losses under the last one and before his policies were in place and other reminders of real accomplishment such as that General Motors is once again the world’s number one auto maker and the number of jobs that have been restored to the whole industry. Stuff like that the GOTP would like everyone to forget. He also made some firm demands for legislation that he would”sign tomorrow”.
This was a refreshing change from the past decades of Democratic timidity in the face of being called socialists. Obama also did a great job of reminding the country of the accomplishments of our military under his ultimate, buck stops here direction as Commander in Chief, with a starring role for the brilliant operation against Osama Bin Laden (try not applauding that, Repubs). Throughout, he brought in details, specifics and related successful programs to real people in the room. Over all a very good job.
The Daniels rebuttal just sounded small, pissy and pretty pathetic. The contrast with Romney grinning foolishly while awkwardly getting through his not my fault I’m just following the rules defense of his bargain basement tax rate and offshore accounts? Let’s just say Romney doesn’t look very presidential by comparison and Newt looks like the disgusting creep he is, as usual.
That’s my take, Dave. Will a speech force the Republican House to work with him on any of this? Of course not, but that’s another issue.
Reading the comments at TPM and here last night the impression I got was that he said good things but it wasn’t a barn burner.
After Jindahl and the bozos running for the primaries, expectations are much lower, apparently.
but what I heard was thoughtful, clear and forceful.
This is someone who has broken one of the strongest cultural barriers in our society, access to political power by a man of color. You aren’t going to brush him aside or intimidate him. He ordered some of the most skilled warriors in the world to fly deep into hostile territory in the dark of night to hunt down and kill the most hated terrorist of our times and they succeeded.
It is hard to imagine how much has happened in the last year to our country. You can beat him up on what he hasn’t done but he gets up every day and does everything he can to help his country and the American people. We should all consider doing the same.
right on GG