Obama seems more relaxed, not looking at his notes or teleprompter really at all.

Good speech so far, seems to be getting good bipartisan applause.

1/12/2016 9:36:01 PM

Paul Ryan looks so smug back there. What a tool

1/12/2016 9:39:17 PM

^ yeah he's not clapping at anything, even Boehner would clapped.

1/12/2016 9:40:39 PM

Oil and gas subsidies being cut.

[Edited on January 12, 2016 at 9:41 PM. Reason : Gg]

1/12/2016 9:41:01 PM

I'm not the biggest Obama fan, but the man can deliver a speech. Too bad nothing will change from it

1/12/2016 10:08:31 PM

No guns in this speech

1/12/2016 10:11:21 PM

^ He forgot to bring the onions for tears on demand.

[Edited on January 12, 2016 at 10:13 PM. Reason : Solid speech]

1/12/2016 10:12:54 PM

nikki haley is the next bobby jindal

1/12/2016 10:29:04 PM

lol she opened with the eloquent negro.

1/12/2016 10:34:17 PM

hard to comprehend how so many can be so vehemently against that dude and that SOTU

I mean, I know why a sizable amount are, but still

1/12/2016 11:10:51 PM

I overall I really liked the speech as a speech, and didn't find myself strongly disliking much of the actual material.

He had a couple of odd verbal slips that adversely affected delivery, and the fourth "body paragraph" about political discourse struck me as a little paternalistic. Though it would've been hard as hell to sound otherwise. Telling the American people that their behavior is childish could hardly come across otherwise, no matter how accurate it might be.

I like a speech that can occasionally get a laugh out of me -- when it's done intelligently. He had a lot of good lines in the meat of the speech that did just that, but the openers about "I know a lot of you need to get back to Iowa" kind of undermined what should be a sense of importance about the SOTU.

1/13/2016 12:47:36 AM