Not when you make the rules that govern how you make money!

 

All in favor of raises for ourselves, say I!

Yawn.

 

Whatever he said will instantly not happen. The fact that he endorsed them means they can't even be considered.

 

I watched an episode of chopped. Thy tried to poison the judges. Three times.

If you didnt watch, then you probably missed Obama's best speech since being elected into office. Complete populist nonsense, but he really set the tone for his reelection and thats all this was about.

Bahaha I loved Biden's reaction after the Lincoln quote. He wasn't sure whether to clap or not.

No lapel pin for Boehner?

So Im thinking Obama/Clinton ticket, setting Clinton up for a Presidential run in 2016.

It's pretty funny that this guy gets called a Marxist.

Obama is a huge Groucho fan.

So Im thinking Obama/Clinton ticket, setting Clinton up for a Presidential run in 2016.

There was talk when Lagrande was up for the IMF seat that Hillary may end up going the World Bank route.

Obama is a huge Groucho fan.

It's pretty funny that this guy gets called a Marxist.

He's supporting defacing our flag! That means he hates capitalism! /green

He's supporting defacing our flag! That means he hates capitalism! /green

I keep listening for the radical leftist creating socialism in america and i keep hearing "if you work hard you can succeed, businesses are creating jobs!"

I keep listening for the radical leftist creating socialism in america and i keep hearing "if you work hard you can succeed, businesses are creating jobs!"

He did really well tonight I think. I'm sure he's going to get shredded by some but it sets the tone for this fall.

The best attack is: "He may have well said that he had secretly developed a way to turn garbage into oil."

He did really well tonight I think. I'm sure he's going to get shredded by some but it sets the tone for this fall.

There were some awkward lines and some bad ideas, but it works really well aa campaign launching point.

There were some awkward lines and some bad ideas, but it works really well aa campaign launching point.

I lean right so from my perspective I came in skeptical I guess. We both know we can take this with a relative grain of salt since its election time.

Daniels has the best facial expressions.

Generally the state of the union speeches are meaningless pomp and circumstance but you don't usually see Obama be that aggressive. Like, ever.

Saw most of it on a treadmill at the gym with captions rather than sound. I do have to say though, it read great. American triumphalism generally has a better ring than "we're doomed".

Thought it was a great speech. One thing I was a bit confused by was praising the state of the auto industry and then being pretty adamant about no more bailouts.

 

Also kind of surprised at what I thought was an underwhelming reaction to his education tirade.

If only he had come out to "I am a real american" (

) and ripped off his suit to reveal a more awesome suit

 

That would have taken it to the next level.

 

 

Wow great speech tonight... Kudos to Obama.

 

I predict Obama will win in another landslide victory, with about 350 electoral votes..

Obama came out mad. He seemed fed up with stuff.

 

Loved the death stares from Cantor.

Build me a monorail Obama, come on, double down on America going berserk.

 

Definitely a more fiery speech than we've seen from Obama since before he was elected. More direct, more policy directives, more energy. Some of the ideas are good, some are bad, but he is definitely making his case loudly for 2012, and overall it was pretty good. The spilled milk joke was awful, seriously, whoever wrote that should be fired immediately.

 

One more thing... WTF was Mitch Daniels talking about when he said "half of people under 30 didn't go to work today". Well, yeah, all those people less than 15 years old likely don't have jobs. Duh. If he meant working age (over 18), even if you include college students, that number is still 100% not believable. And man do that dude's facial expressions creep me out, he's like an android. I was kind of surprised though that a guy who is supposedly a GOP object of desire for higher office, endorsing means testing for Medicare and Social Security.

 

Politifact, in their endless effort to be non-partisan, rated this statement by Obama as "half true":

 

“In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.”

 

The problem is that it is entirely true. They rated it as untrue simply because it was a positive political narrative for Obama.

 

In his remarks, Obama described the damage to the economy, including losing millions of jobs “before our policies were in full effect.” Then he describe [sic!] the subsequent job increases, essentially taking credit for the job growth. But labor economists tell us that no mayor or governor or president deserves all the claim or all the credit for changes in employment.

 

Between this and their "lie of the year" actually being a "true statement, though maybe a little polemic," I'm not sure how they maintain any credibility.