State of the Union Address

[hotatlboi]

And since you mention generations as you did I'll point out that your generation played a big part in choosing Barack Obama, who is leading us into further decline. This past year, squandered opportunity after squandered opportunity, and where we are today makes that clear.

LOL, like we would have had ANY chance for health care reform or any of the other items with McCain against the Dem Congress?

Not a chance.

 

[NickCole]

He's speaking in Tampa now.

Same old bullshit.

Still campaigning. Still whining, still lying, still blaming others, still playing Us versus Them, still providing no specific plans to address our critical issues.

Listen to him. Listen to the crowd. He's not being a President solving problems. He's campaigning.

Barack Obama will end up being one of our worst Presidents.

 

[NedNickerson]

 

[NickCole]

In Tampa just now the last question Obama took was from a college student who asked, respectfully and clearly, what Obama has done to set in motion the repeal of DADT and equal rights for gay couples.

Obama responded with campaign speak about how we all should have equal rights, but not one word about what he's done or is going to do about DADT or DOMA. He did mention efforts to get Federal employees the same rights SOS Hillary Clinton granted to State employees (I don't mean to imply he mentioned Hillary).

But, to be fair, every answer he gave was crap, from the question about programs to help felons get back on the right track to the monumentally important concern of small businesses that can't secure loans or capitalization.

Very glad I took the time to watch the whole town hall meeting as follow up to last night's SOTU. Seeing Obama go off teleprompter reveals a lot.

 

[NedNickerson]

But, to be fair, every answer he gave was crap, from the question about programs to help felons get back on the right track to the monumentally important concern of small businesses that can't secure loans or capitalization.

Very glad I took the time to watch the whole town hall meeting as follow up to last night's SOTU. Seeing Obama go off teleprompter reveals a lot.

Which means that he's gone back into campaign mode.

With recent Republican victories in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Democrats are beginning to realize that they can't take anything for granted anymore.

I say, let him talk. With the recent campaign and election still fresh in peoples' minds, maybe they will begin to experience a bit of deja vu and say, wait, "That's the same thing he was saying two years ago," or in some cases, "That's not what he said two years ago."

 

[ColorSlaughter]

Who ever made this image is a racist, ignorant, inflammatory mongoloid. The fact that people with such low qualifications are able to be published on a regular basis baffles my mind.

 

[hotatlboi]

Barack Obama will end up being one of our worst Presidents.

And I bet his Secretary of State will end up being one of the worst in that position too. right?

 

[NickCole]

Who ever made this image is a racist, ignorant, inflammatory mongoloid. The fact that people with such low qualifications are able to be published on a regular basis baffles my mind.

Nice serving of hypocrisy.

Accusing someone of being racist, you use "Mongoloid" as a derogatory term. That's, you know, racist.

 

[chance1]

I thought it was too long and too ................... SOS

He does seem like he's campaigning - enough already you have the job

He still references how much trouble he inherited - get over it - seems whiney to me

Thought he would be funnier - or make that more personable - don't think he was - he seems to be less charismatic even though he's trying to be

and the clapping after each sentence ............. OMG

saw him on the stump today talking about high speed trains - talk about micromanaging

he clearly is more comfortable running for office as an underdog than doing the job

sorry if that's offensive

 

[geoffmontgomery]

I dont think anyone on this forum has ever lived in DC, there are not two parties, there's one: the political party. This is all a show, they fight on camera, and then go out to dinner together...they're all friends. Its called politics for a reason. So to say that harry reid is bad ect, its all ridiculous....

 

[Jack Springer]

I'm just thankful we have only a little under three years left of the Puppit Man.

I'm just really curious of who is pulling the strings - Rahm? Axelrod? Jarret? can't be Biden.

 

[JB3]

Nick, you are the one who doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. Where in 2 U.S.C. Sec. 441e does it prohibit a domestic corporation, not a subsidiary of a foreign corporation, owned or controlled by foreign interests from making an expenditure to influence an American election? Here's a hint, it doesn't.

Actually, if you read the damn statute you'd know that it specifically forbids foreign nationals (meaning ALL foreign interests) from making an expenditure. So no, a domestic corporation owned by foreign interests would not be able to make an expenditure.

 

[chuck10x]

Wrong.

My views are typical of voters under 30.

Republicans would be extremely rare if nobody over 30 ever voted.

The Republicans today were the left wing Hippies of the 60,s and early 70,s.
Jane Fonda, the Beatles, Woodstock,Free Love, Anti War,etc.
Time,Politics and money change almost everyone.
Why is it that it is the over 30, 40 or 50 that are Republican ,And the under 30 are always Democratic?
The numbers never seem to change no matter how much time passes.
Politics does not change, People do.

 

[01solara]

Reid, Pelosi, and Obama can only show the Republicans the door to bipartisanship. They have to walk through it. As much respect as the Republicans want for Browns win they must show to the majority and the president that the American people elected.

Your idea of bipartisanship is the Republicans agreeing to support the Democrat policies with no input on the legislation and no compromise from the Democrats either. People that vote for Republicans expect them to represent them the same as people that vote for Democrats. I vote for ideas not for the personality or charisma of the candidate and if they vote differently than they campaign I will vote for someone else. That is the purpose of primaries and I vote in those too.

 

[iman]

The Republicans today were the left wing Hippies of the 60,s and early 70,s.
Jane Fonda, the Beatles, Woodstock,Free Love, Anti War,etc.
Time,Politics and money change almost everyone.
Why is it that it is the over 30, 40 or 50 that are Republican ,And the under 30 are always Democratic?
The numbers never seem to change no matter how much time passes.
Politics does not change, People do.

That's agross oversimplification. There were many young Republicans and conservatives in the 60's and 70's and there are many young conservatives today. Four little under 30 morons just broke into Mary Landrieu's office.

People have always become a little more conservative as they age, they have more to lose and have often accomplished the more liberal goals that were important to them in their youth.

 

[Ranchman]

For goodness sakes - saying Obama will go down in history as our worst President when he has only finished his first year in office? Come on!! We all know that Bush 43 has that position locked up!!

 

[JB3]

For goodness sakes - saying Obama will go down in history as our worst President when he has only finished his first year in office? Come on!! We all know that Bush 43 has that position locked up!!

As bad as Bush 43 was, he is nowhere near the worst president.

 

[JayHawk]

“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.” - Winston Churchill

I was thinking that but didnt wanna waste my time typing it again. So many juveniles change their positions once they get experience and vote in a manner more like a business decision and less like a crush.

Eventually they will learn that

 

[NickCole]

For goodness sakes - saying Obama will go down in history as our worst President when he has only finished his first year in office? Come on!! We all know that Bush 43 has that position locked up!!

Well first of all I didn't say the worst, I said one of the worst.

It is amazing how consistently Obama loyalists mischaracterize what his critics say. Almost like it's a requirement.

Secondly, and much more importantly, nobody has that position locked up.

An objective reading of the United States and the people Americans are electing reveals that we are not generally replacing flawed elected officials with better ones. As evidenced by the past year, after a big turnover in Congress and of course the WH, when we've so desperately needed potent legislation and leadership, Americans have elected a lame bunch.

After this past year's dismal performance coupled with his SOTU speech and yesterday in Tampa, it's clear to me he continues in the wrong direction, and as a result circumstances for Americans and between Americans will continue to deterioriate. Obama is stunningly divisive, a terrible leader and utterly without vision beyond the most shallow campaign bullet points.

I stand by my comment. Given the needs of our nation, Obama will go down as one of our worst Presidents who did not meet the challenge. There will always be those who protect and defend him because that's what he inspires from loyalists, but unfortunately he does not inspire from them anything that actually helps out our country or our people.

 

[iman]

We all know that the administration saved the economy from imminent collapse with the stimulus bills, wound down the war in Iraq and reassigned troops to Afghanistan, brought competence and and respect for science back to Washington, engaged foreign leaders on middle east problems, climate change and nuclear proliferation, but KOS carried a list of 90 other accomplishments that have been overlooked:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/...f-Pres.-Obama-Which-The-Media-Fails-to-Report

We have posters on these boards that taken Senator DeMint's advice and want to "break" Obama in order to put Republicans back in power, but the facts speak for themselves. Only in the bizzarro world of teabaggers and disgruntled, depressed and denying depressives could one decide Obama is one of America's "worst Presidents", particulary when Obama has 7 more years to go.

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