Blogs Jan 25, 2012 at 12:14 pm

I Don't Understand the Response to the State of the Union

Paul Constant
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please excuse this interruption of Paul's lame boring post but no one gives a shit what he thinks anyway....

>>>Charles, on the other hand, has an interesting post today about the Death of the American Family.

The numbers in the article Charles links point out the lie in Danny's assertion that Marriage is alive and well.

Only half of American adults are married currently,
compared to over 70% 5 decades ago.

Married two parent households
provide the best environment to raise children into functional contributing adults.

Children raised in other circumstances
find themselves featured in Danny's"Every Child Deserves...."
and camping out in public parks demanding that the government take care of them.
on January 25, 2012 at 12:19 PM Report this
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Who cares what the pundits say? This is the only response that matters: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-2…
caisor on January 25, 2012 at 12:21 PM Report this
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WTF are these clueless pundits talking about? Obama's SoTU last night was chock-full of specific proposals: on tax restructuring, employment, energy production, financial reform and oversight, deficit reduction, etc., etc. I simply do not understand how any reasonably intelligent person could claim to have listened to the entire hour-plus long speech and NOT have heard these mentioned.

Unless of course the whole point is to simply deny they were ever uttered in the first place, for whatever reason, which, given the anticipated lack of drama that's going to come out of the 2012 cycle, may be understandable, if not actually forgivable.
COMTE on January 25, 2012 at 12:41 PM Report this
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What's funny about Sullivan wanting more sweeping vision is that he regularly lambastes Gingrich for just that -- Gingrich, notoriously, has a grand sweeping vision for everything, from WWIII to going to the toilet and washing his hands.
Fnarf on January 25, 2012 at 12:43 PM Report this
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Speeches are great - but action is better!

on January 25, 2012 at 12:45 PM Report this
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Now that "Super PACs" (read Super Buttloads of Cash) have been unleashed, the media has an incentive to keep the race interesting by stirring the pot. They want as contentious a race as is possible so people tune in. It's simply become all about he money.
Vince on January 25, 2012 at 12:46 PM Report this
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The speech was fine... but there was little actionable, just a bunch of election year dares to an intractable congress. Paul's defense of the shockingly disappointing Obama has become so unrelenting it sounds a little like he's trying to convince himself that this man is worth our vote. Statistically, your vote doesn't matter... so don't compromise your conscience. To vote strategically is the only way to throw your vote. To vote how you truly feel is how actual change occurs.
on January 25, 2012 at 12:50 PM Report this
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the only speech that would have made conservatives happy would be a tweet announcing his resignation and return to kenya. fuck them.
Max Solomon on January 25, 2012 at 1:33 PM Report this
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Paul has succumbed to the Chicago hustle, the fairy dust, the bamboozle, the hope & change rhetoric.
on January 25, 2012 at 1:34 PM Report this
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Paul, what people wanted was for Obama to reach out to them personally like JP Patches use to do when he read off people's birthdays while gazing into his magic eye-see-U-2-TV.

"And Andrew... look under your bed the Department of Interior has left a national park under there for you! YAY!"
tkc on January 25, 2012 at 1:47 PM Report this
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@2 - That's from last year's SOTU. Here's hoping, though...
Georgia Guy on January 25, 2012 at 1:52 PM Report this
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@7: "To vote how you truly feel is how actual change occurs.
"

Name one instance of this actually occurring.
on January 25, 2012 at 1:56 PM Report this
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How refreshing that Gov. Daniels didn't come off as a complete wacko like the GOP does most years. Totally wrong, but not a wacko. That's a start.
Mr. J on January 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM Report this
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I guess he could've gone up there and read aloud one of those 37-page articles from The New Yorker... and received exactly the same word-salad response from the Rethuglatards:

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously!"
Original Andrew on January 25, 2012 at 2:50 PM Report this
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No, practicality and possibility isn't required. Remember when Bush used the State of the Union to ramble on about flying a space ship to Mars? The speech doesn't have to be about anything if you don't want it to be.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn on January 25, 2012 at 3:46 PM Report this
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I still don't get the idea that it's only people in uniform (i.e. soldiers) who "protect freedom" (as Obama said once or twice last night).

Teachers don't protect freedom? Lawyers and judges don't? Parents don't? Activists don't? Artists don't?

It only counts as protecting freedom when you're an (armed) instrument of American foreign policy, I guess.
Irving on January 25, 2012 at 4:27 PM Report this
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Sullivan is just cranky that Obama doesn't give him the Chris-Matthews-Leg-Tingle that he used to get before Barry got elected. Maybe once President Obama morphs back into Candidate Obama again, Sullivan can break out the Fleshlite again...
Andy Niable on January 26, 2012 at 12:43 AM Report this
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@12 One of the ideas behind a two-party system is that any third party that gains traction will have its views/voters absorbed by a main party. The Tea Party is a clear example of people who voted their passions, damn the consequences... and now they have a Republican party that more clearly mirrors their policies. So vote for Obama and you're telling him that his same centrist-right crap is ok with you. But if we don't allow the Democratic Party to take our votes for granted they'll find that they have to adapt.
on January 26, 2012 at 7:56 AM Report this

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