Were any of these shit heads watching the same SOTU speech I saw

[bigdarryl]

JESUS!!!! and Arianna is starting to sound like the right winger she used to be 15 years ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-obama-did-not-mak_b_439772.html

[livetohike]

1. That's the problem with those supposed "I was a Republican

but now I'm a Democrat" people. Once in a while, their true colors come shining through.

[bigdarryl]

3. Like Big Ed

[rurallib]

8. Ed has been the one to challenge the Dems to follow through

on their rhetoric. What is the matter with that?

[Clio the Leo]

23. And Big Ed would know a thing or two about rhetoric. NT

[depakid]

9. Yeah right

Might want to take a look in the mirror....

[Clio the Leo]

22. Ed cracked me up tonight saying ...

.... that the President had some stern words for everyone "the Republicans, even the Democrats and don't forget the Supreme Court."

He very conveniently left out the cable news pundents .... I cant help but wonder after the exchange Ed and Gibbs had last week that the President didn't have Ed (and others) in mind when he wrote that line. ;)

[Armstead]

6. Please tell me what of her positions you'd oppose if Obama supported them

[NJmaverick]

2. It seems she was more interested in taking down George Bush

her transformation from right winger was greatly exaggerated.

[Lasher]

13. I have wondered if it's just been a marketing strategy.

She probably makes more money when she's being critical of whoever is in power.

[Jennicut]

4. I used to respect her but she seems to crave attention for attention's sake.

I don't mind criticism of the President but her's is mindless.

[Armstead]

10. I find her personally annoying, but I think her criticisms are usually valid

Obama's speech seemed very Clintonesque. Great style and feisty in a partisan sense.....But not much nutrition

[Jennicut]

12. Clinton declared the era of big govt. was over in one of his SOTU speeches

I didn't see that with Obama last night. To keep promoting health care reform, to rebuke the Supreme Court, the bank fee and tougher regulations on banks, to call out the Rethugs on obstruction was a bit different then Clinton. The thing with the deficit seemed to be calling out Rehtugs to actually claim they care about it. I thought it was well done in casting the Rethugs as the party of no. And the call to repeal DADT (finally-took too long in my opinion).

[Armstead]

14. So did Obama in a different way -- He's basically saying...

"Right now we're in a state of emergency, so we have to do some spending. But once we get out of the woods, the era of big government will be over."

He echoed Clinton in many otehr ways....he said the problem with "free trade" is that we don't have enough free trade....He avoided the basic fact that the problems with the financial system is NOT just the bad behavior of a few executives. The real problem is having a handful of monopolistic mega banks that can bring down the economy in a week....etc.


The basic fact is that over the last 30 years, the economy and political system has been perverted and distorted in a systemic, structural way, and we are now paying the price. The problem will not be fixed simply by wagging fingers at the GOP or asking the Financial Oligarchs to be nicer.

We continue to ignore that at our peril.

[Jennicut]

15. It all depends on if Congress will pass the Volcker rule.

Obama does need to get serious about it or people will not trust his words. I do think he had an effective speech.

[cilla4progress]

20. Agreed!

[tinrobot]

17. Everything is a crisis with her...

She's a classic drama queen - a spoiled brat with zero patience.

[PatSeg]

18. She's starting to look like

she is just promoting herself, not expressing any valid political points. I've found it harder and harder to listen to her.

[VMI Dem]

5. She shall be cast down.

[NJmaverick]

7. What's worse is she is a regular on the talk show circuit

and frequently misrepresents herself as some sort of liberal.

[tridim]

16. Watched her on CNN last night agreeing with Fluffernutter over and over and over.

She is pathetic.

Huffpost is dead to me now.

[bigdarryl]

11. Hill Harper was the only one who though Obama did well

looks like Larry King is trying to kiss up to Conservatives

[wisteria]

19. Arianna must not be able to understand english very well. That speech was all about the middle class

What kind of BS game is she playing? Oh wait, if she criticizes him she gets to go on TV and talk about her opposition and appear fair and balanced. Thus, promote her site to RW'ers who will go to post their negative feedback from the speech.

[LatteLibertine]

21. Some folks

are completely unrealistic. In addition, President Obama can not effect meaningful change by himself without support, never mind the constant mewling from critics.

I know what happens if Republicans return to power. I'm not certain what will happen if I stand by President Obama for his term. I plan on doing just that and evaluating if further support is warranted when his first four are up.