"We must adjust our expectations downwards, rather than fight to win."*

[MannyGoldstein]

That's my one-line takeaway from last night's SOTU.

I respond to that message by channeling a great American, General Anthony McAuliffe. Surrounded with his 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge, massively outnumbered, McAuliffe received a letter from the German Commander demanding surrender in exchange for allowing the Americans to live. His letter of response:

To the German Commander.

NUTS!

The American Commander

*title is a synopsis, not a real quote of course

[RobertEarl]

1. Well, what do you expect?

Who's winning these days?

And how the heck did a "we give in" Democrat ever get elected?

And why can't Atlanta handle 2 inches of snow?

[sulphurdunn]

24. Mostly, because the Democratic Party

was captured by a Wall St. coup in 1984 by a thing called the DLC, and because of ice, hills and jackknifed 18 wheelers.

[jsr]

2. "We must know our stations"

[zeemike]

27. Yes but they dress us up in nice penguin suits

When we serve them...if we are so privileged.

[ProSense]

3. Making up quotes now?

[MannyGoldstein]

17. My apologies - title updated with a disclaimer asterisk. nt

[demwing]

29. If it's not a quote, just kill the quotation marks

easy breezy

[SidDithers]

20. FUD'ers gotta FUD...

It's what they do.

Sid

[JoePhilly]

4. 1085 11 14

[zappaman]

5. Where was this line in the SOTU?

I can't find it.

[TheMathieu]

6. Here's a link to the text of the full speech, everyone.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/state-of-the-union-text_n_4590833.html

This quote is nowhere to be found.

Don't let dishonest people control the narrative.

[truebluegreen]

34. How do you feel about the reading-impaired?

[Skidmore]

7. Oy..

[Autumn]

8. Oh look, they think you are giving a quote from the SOTU.

How precious is that. Rec . Just because

[rhett o rick]

18. He had to give them something to whine about. They have nothing of substance. nm

[demwing]

30. Why is that funny?

[demwing]

32. seriously, why is this funny? /nt

[bemildred]

9. Nuts indeed. nt

[randome]

10. This isn't war. It's politics.

'Nuts!' simply means beating your head against a wall. All it brings is a headache and a need to replaster.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[Fumesucker]

14. War is the continuation of politics by other means -Clausewitz

[geek tragedy]

23. All war is politics, but not all politics is war. nt

[UncleMuscles]

19. It's definite war

It's a class war and the 1% has already won.

[Scuba]

11. K&R

[Fumesucker]

13. Damn the torpedos

Full speed ahead

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Funny, you never quoted the sotu

But they think you did. That was very funny.

[LordGlenconner]

25. You're pretty funny too

Only it's more along the lines of unintentional comedy.

[LittleBlue]

16. We've been adjusting our expectations downward since Ronnie Rayguns

as our Democratic leadership has gone steadily more toward the side of corporatists.

Hillary is the culmination of three decades of merging the Democratic Party to right wing economic dictates, and the Republicans further to the right into libertarian economic theory. It's the new political spectrum, ensuring the continuation of the corporate profit-poverty cycle. Once she is elected, the 1% have achieved a victory so complete that they have absolutely no opposition within the borders of the United States.

[Progressive dog]

21. I don't see what the "nuts" quote has to do

with politics.

[wcollar]

26. Nuts

Merriam-Webster.com, definition 2: insane, crazy
How can it NOT apply to American politics?

[Progressive dog]

35. I thought I was replying to a specific post

which used a specific quote which was made in a specific instance. I still think I was, so I'm assuming you just intended to be humorous.

[geek tragedy]

22. A reaction every bit as thoughtful, accurate and predictable as Ted Cruz's. nt

[adirondacker]

28. "If you work hard, you get ahead" Obviously we need to work 99% harder. nt

[truebluegreen]

33. Well said. nt

[woo me with science]

31. K&R