THERE IS SO MUCH DIVERSITY!

TIMES HAVE CHANGED AND NOW REPUBLICANS ARENT JUST OLD WHITE PEOPLE!!!

.....

THIS STAGED BULLSHIT AND THIS SHITTY SPEAKER MAKES ME WANT TO VOMIT.

1/27/2010 10:38:51 PM

hell, I don't want policies that exceed 160 characters.

1/27/2010 10:39:14 PM

Quote :

"her?"

It's most common in legal professions to speak of a third person as a female unless you know for sure.

[Edited on January 27, 2010 at 10:39 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2010 10:39:21 PM

this guy has a lisp

also, will they show his two twin sons leaving to go watch sports center?

1/27/2010 10:40:14 PM

Quote :

"THIS STAGED BULLSHIT AND THIS SHITTY SPEAKER MAKES ME WANT TO VOMIT."

umm...its all staged?

1/27/2010 10:40:34 PM

i watched every SOTU after 9/11, though i pretty much disagreed with 70% of bush's policies.

had no interest in watching tonight. i'm assuming it was just the same ol' shit.

[Edited on January 27, 2010 at 10:41 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2010 10:40:35 PM

HAHAH...camera pans out to a bunch of white people...


And yes, I know they are all staged...but I'm a democrat.

1/27/2010 10:43:45 PM

fox news is absolutely hilarious

1/27/2010 10:44:45 PM

Quote :

"Abroad, America's greatest source of strength has always been our ideals. The same is true at home. We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal, that no matter who you are or what you look like, if you abide by the law you should be protected by it; that if you adhere to our common values you should be treated no different than anyone else. We must continually renew this promise. My Administration has a Civil Rights Division that is once again prosecuting civil rights violations and employment discrimination. We finally strengthened our laws to protect against crimes driven by hate. This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are"

Lt Colonel Fehrenbach (the $25 million trained & discharged aviator of 18 years) will be on Rachel Maddow when it starts at 11:45 pm (an hour from now) to talk about the call for the DADT repeal this year. McCain has already released a statement tonight opposing the repeal.

[Edited on January 27, 2010 at 10:47 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2010 10:46:16 PM

Quote :

"Don't knock the Supreme Court justices Obama, they are far more intelligent than you can imagine"

I’m sure many of them are intelligent, but I wouldn’t give all of them that credit...

1/27/2010 10:47:42 PM

WHY IS HE FLATLINING NASA MONIES

1/27/2010 10:54:21 PM

i swear its a wig!!!

1/27/2010 10:54:35 PM

Quote :

"fox news is absolutely hilarious"

i'm afraid to look

but...i think my curiosity will win

1/27/2010 10:59:46 PM

^^^ probably because he thinks the moon is too white for us to spend so much money to visit

[Edited on January 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM. Reason : ]

1/27/2010 10:59:53 PM

once again CNN is the only cable network with left and right commentators

1/27/2010 11:13:15 PM

omg did palin just do the black girl "oh no he didnt" thing

1/27/2010 11:14:34 PM

I like how BET aired the SOTU tonight...something Im sure they have never done until this President. Following the address, rather than airing the Republican Response, they had to get to an important rerun of "The Game". Way to stay neutral.

1/27/2010 11:15:55 PM

nice





So, I played this as a drinking game, and went through half a fifth.
Damn.

1/27/2010 11:33:05 PM

I would've done the drinking game had people been around. I probably went through half a fifth anyway.

---

I thought his responses to the whole Brown election thing were pretty well done. There were some pauses and responses to hubub in the crowd that were awkward, though, and the talk about trust and ideals and shit went on longer than it should have. For a while it reminded me of Carter's "Crisis of Confidence." May have been accurate, but came across as paternalistic.

1/28/2010 12:24:03 AM

BO:
"we’re working to lift the value of a family’s single largest investment – their home"

Thanks asshole, let's drown the next generation of homebuyers in debt if they can even enter the market.

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 12:36 AM. Reason : x]

1/28/2010 12:35:56 AM

Quote :

"I like how BET aired the SOTU tonight...something Im sure they have never done until this President. Following the address, rather than airing the Republican Response, they had to get to an important rerun of "The Game". Way to stay neutral"

hahahaha it's BET, I didn't know they had any journalistic integrity to remain neutral. And of course BET is where I go to get all my unbiased news...

1/28/2010 12:46:17 AM

The GOP could have used Steel, if he hadn't proved to be so incompetent and unpopular with the GOP.

1/28/2010 12:53:30 AM

Quote :

"Thanks asshole, let's drown the next generation of homebuyers in debt if they can even enter the market."

hey jackass...when there are 300k homes selling for less than 100k, you're not exactly fucking over the next generation if you get them back up to 200k in value.

1/28/2010 1:06:04 AM

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/27/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6149049.shtml

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" • 83% of speech watchers approve of the proposals the president made in his speech tonight. 17% Disapprove. • 70% of speech watchers think Barack Obama shares the same priorities for the country as they do. 57% thought so before the speech. "

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/27/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6149049.shtml

Quote :

" • 59% of speech watchers think that Barack Obama has a clear plan for creating jobs. 40% thought so before the speech. • 72% of speech watchers approve of Barack Obama's plans for dealing with government spending. 28% Disapprove. • 56% of speech watchers think Barack Obama's economic plans will reduce the budget deficit in the long run, and 71% think they will help ordinary Americans. "

Quote :

"522 speech watchers participated in the poll. The margin of error was 4 percent. "

1/28/2010 1:38:56 AM

Isn't it pretty common for the majority of people polled to agree with SOTU stuff? Not to say that they're mistaken in this case, but I seem to recall improvements like that happening the past several speeches. Most speeches of any kind, really, unless they're pretty horribly botched.

1/28/2010 2:19:53 AM

Quote :

"hey jackass...when there are 300k homes selling for less than 100k, you're not exactly fucking over the next generation if you get them back up to 200k in value. "

It is when the houses aren't actually worth 2-300k

1/28/2010 7:50:23 AM

Quote :

""we’re working to lift the value of a family’s single largest investment – their home""

See, this is more populist garbage that is terrible for the economy. The government has always worked to prop up home prices, but that's not what we need. A house is not an investment, it's an expense. It's something that can be sold at a later time, perhaps for more than it was originally worth, but that doesn't mean it should be viewed as an investment. The housing bubble was created by people that thought homes were an investment.

Home prices need to fall. People bought overvalued homes. If you buy during a bubble, and the bubble bursts, you can't expect prices to go back up. They weren't supposed to be that high in the first place.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html

Quote :

""Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said. "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.""

Quote :

"The shot of the black-robed Supreme Court justices, stone-faced, was priceless. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood up behind the justices and clapped vigorously while Alito shook his head and quietly mouthed his discontent."

You have to wonder if Obama, or any of the Democrats for that matter, actually read the majority opinion, or if they just went straight for the dissent. They know that they can cry "special interest" and most people will be duped.

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 8:56 AM. Reason : ]

1/28/2010 8:38:24 AM

Shook my head watching the democrats jumping and cheering ...knowing that Obama is leading many of them like lemmings over the cliff in November.

1/28/2010 10:11:20 AM

can i get a tl;dw version?

1/28/2010 10:14:54 AM

^^its funny you said that because in his speech he said specifically not to think like they are campaigning but to do what they were elected to do.

1/28/2010 11:04:19 AM

Quote :

"We must continually renew this promise. My Administration has a Civil Rights Division that is once again prosecuting civil rights violations and employment discrimination."

what about prosecuting voter intimidation cases like the Black Panthers... oh, wait. fuck.

1/28/2010 5:45:33 PM

how bout the SLAM the AP put on the SOTU. pretty harsh coming from them...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-factcheck_28nat.ART.State.Edition2.4bbf271.html

oh, and that politico article? what a fucking bone-headed thing that was. "Oh, Obama TOOOOOOOOLD THEM!" That's what it came off ass. And, Obama should be fucking ashamed of himself for making such a scene about that. Grow the fuck up, dude. The SC ruled that people have free speech... OH NOOO!!! WHAT A TERRIBLE THING!!!

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 6:48 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2010 6:45:55 PM

I have no problem admitting when the liberal media prints a fair story. The AP fact check was the first fair review of Obama that I've read in the MSLM

1/28/2010 6:51:35 PM

haha, its funny to see the right trying to act like they didnt just get a hard one in the face
"oh he's a one term president"
yeah keep saying that to yourself

1/28/2010 9:36:57 PM

keep telling yourself that he isn't a one-term president. He's got Jimmy Carter written all over himself right now.

1/28/2010 11:39:28 PM

the worst of his presidency is probably over, as long as he keeps security a high priority then the rest of this term should be full of taking credit for an improving economy and passing various legislation

1/28/2010 11:48:24 PM

what improving economy? You've got this notion that the worst is behind us. Something that Americans scoffed at last night when Obama mentioned it. That kind of rhetoric is guaranteed to lose him the election. The worst is not over. The worst won't be over until the zombie banks we are propping up have finally been allowed to die.

1/28/2010 11:54:44 PM

^i wouldnt call them zombie banks, many of them are making profits and have a bright future,
i wish they died though, but the fact is the bailouts have allowed to the economy to stabilize
is there still a risk of a double dip? yes, but its not as a likely as some economic recovery
on top of all the govt spending on jobs that will happen this year we're sure to see things get better
and obama will be there to make sure everyone knows he did it

1/29/2010 8:51:10 AM

Quote :

"^i wouldnt call them zombie banks, many of them are making profits and have a bright future"

Ahahahahaha

..........................

Wait, you're serious. These banks are insolvent by every traditional measure. The Fed created money to "bail them out." So, the banks have this newly created money in their electronic reserves, which makes it seem like they aren't insolvent. They won't lend it out though, because if they did, they'd be back to where they started. They can't lend, because they don't actually have the money. Lending is the only way the banks make money, so they're going to stay "zombie banks," and there's really no way out.

Now Obama and the Fed want to charge banks a fine for extra reserves. In essence, this is a "negative interest rate." I've long thought, if 0% interest rates are so good, why not take it to the next level and go negative? That would be even better - it would force banks to lend. Of course, if this policy were to actually be implemented, it'd be a disaster. The monetary base, that has been doubled, would make it into circulation, and we would see massive inflation.

1/29/2010 9:17:31 AM

DA ECONOMY GROWED!

http://www.wral.com/business/story/6912388/

fastest in 7 years, apparently.

1/29/2010 9:21:42 AM

Not suspect at all. Now we just have to wait for the "lagging indicator" - jobs.

1/29/2010 9:40:33 AM

Quote :

" The Court’s ruling in Citizens United concerned the right of labor unions and domestic corporations, including nonprofits, to express their views about candidates in media such as books, films and TV within 60 days of an election. In short, it concerned freedom of speech; in particular, an independent film critical of Hillary Clinton funded by a nonprofit corporation. While the Court reversed a 1990 decision allowing such a ban, it left standing current restrictions on foreign nationals and “entities.” Also untouched was a 100-year-old ban on domestic corporate contributions to political campaigns to which the president was presumably referring erroneously."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031423261840744.html

1/29/2010 12:07:06 PM

Quote :

"DA ECONOMY GROWED! http://www.wral.com/business/story/6912388/ fastest in 7 years, apparently."

as long as the 'zombie' banks arent lending money and the construction industry remains a stagnate black hole, jobs and the economy will continue to suck.

[Edited on January 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM. Reason : ,]

1/29/2010 12:34:08 PM

Quote :

"hell, I don't want policies that exceed 160 characters."

http://twitter.com/BARACKOBAMA

140 characters FTW

1/29/2010 1:51:22 PM

Quote :

"ending is the only way the banks make money, so they're going to stay "zombie banks," and there's really no way out."

Wow. Couldnt be more wrong. Ever heard on non-interest income? aka Fee income?
Take BoA for example, for 2009 they had net interest income of $48,410,000,000 and non-interest income of $56,833,000,000.

So its like what you said.....but the opposite.

1/29/2010 2:26:48 PM

The banks aren't going to make their money back on bad loans just from fees. That isn't enough to balance their budget sheets. They need the interest money to overcome that deficit.

1/29/2010 2:37:04 PM

Quote :

"Wall Street Journal: Today’s report that GDP grew at a 5.7% annual rate is good news, but it’s far too early to break out the champagne and declare ‘recovery accomplished.’ Even if this growth rate were to be sustained for 3 years we would still not create enough jobs to climb out of the hole caused by this recession. Worse, this growth will not be sustained. This quarter’s growth was driven largely by a restocking of business inventories that will not be repeated in coming quarters. –Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute"

1/29/2010 4:40:30 PM

^more on economic growth/recovery from the weekly address:

1/30/2010 8:00:43 PM

"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito shooked his head no, and mouthed "not true," while President Obama criticized the Supreme Court for their recent decision"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pB5uR3zgsA

Quote :

"Was Justice Alito's "not true" the subtler, quieter, more polite black-robed version of Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst? The always smart and provocative Randy Barnett works out the parallels in today's Wall Street Journal, and finds that Obama is the Wilson-esque boob in this round, since (some of)* the [six] were at the speech as a courtesy to the president:"

Quote :

"For those who strongly object to the ruling in Citizens United and still do not see the impropriety of criticizing the Court this way, consider Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during the president's address to a joint session of Congress in September. No one denied the right of a congressman to criticize the accuracy of the president's remarks. The objection was to the rudeness and disrespect shown the president, for which Mr. Wilson promptly apologized. So too should the president...The president fully expected that his hundreds of supporters in the legislative branch would stand and cheer, while the justices remained seated and silent, unable to respond even afterward. Moreover, the president's speech was only released about 30 minutes before the event, after the justices were already present. In short, the head of the executive branch ambushed six members of the judiciary, and called upon the legislative branch to deride them publicly...."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031423261840744.html

"If this is an indication of things to come, maybe there should be an official judicial response to the State of the Union from now on. Of course, it would come out months after the speech and be laden with footnotes. Which—after all the quickie liveblogging and vacuous official Republican response—might not be a bad idea."

[Edited on February 1, 2010 at 10:29 AM. Reason : quote more!]

2/1/2010 10:22:33 AM

Won't someone think of the children Supreme Court justices.

2/1/2010 10:25:56 AM