It feels like a dream.
I never thought I’d see the day where the American public doesn’t believe the bullshit coming from the GOP.
How long do you think this will last?
Well, whatever it is, if President Obama is doing it, then it is most likely the best thing to do.
I assume we’ve all seen Julio.
Every network had their own camera. At least 1, I think NBC, was at a dramatically different angle than the others. I only know because I was flipping through my channels trying to find one that sounded best… but there definitely wasn’t 1 camera he could have looked at.
Finally, enough people are tired of the right wing Republican’s “Boy Who Cried Wolf” syndrome. There were no WMD in Iraq, the country had nothing to do with 9/11. Barack Obama isn’t a socialist, Marxist, terrorist-loving Muslim who’ll trash the White House by inviting all his soul brother friends to come par-tay. William Ayres is a harmless academic now, not the super scary ooogie boogie man he was portrayed as. The more shit the right wingers and pundits tried to fling at Obama, the more people backed away in horror at the stench coming from the right wingers and pundits, which made the right wingers and pundits even more desperate to find something, ANYTHING, real or imagined (mostly imagined) they could throw to make stick. Nothing did, unless you were a freeper type who believed everything Rush and Hannity say. The type who still thinks Obama isn’t an American citizen, and calls him Zero or Odumbo.
I don’t know when the average person started to wake up to the specific lies against Obama. It might have been when that bimbo on Fox called Barack and Michelle’s playful knuckle bump a “terrorist fist jab.” It was not only stupid, it was so far beyond the pale that a lot of folks realized that hey, maybe you can’t trust anything these guys say. People could see that these two Americans were as far away from terrorist as you could get, and this was Partisanship Gone Wild. They see Partisanship Gone Wild now too, and they understand what it means. Party first, Country second (or third, after the corporations/banks). What it doesn’t mean is a concern for the American people. They can see that asswipes who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to banks with absolutely no oversight are now suddenly “fiscal conservatives” bleating on nonsensically when it comes to a stimulus that will help ordinary Americans and infastructure.
Add the disaster of Bush, the disaster of Palin, the disaster of McCain’s poorly-run campain, the B girl, and about a thousand other things (oh and thanks for the “I hope he fails” boost Rush, your timing couldn’t have been better), and you’ve now got a totally discredited party, with the insane ones still insisting that the reason they lost was because they weren’t right wing enough, and the sane ones wondering what the hell they’re going to do now.
They did it to themselves, but if something came up that people really should be worried about, no one’s going to believe them. Not for a long long time.
Hopefully, a long, long time. As long as Obama keeps doing the right thing, admits when he ‘screws up’ and keeps showing by words and deeds his concern for the American people, and the GOP keeps acting like selfish 1st graders.
You’re welcome! If mine wasn’t a business cell, that would so be my ringtone, as well. 
You mean like the last one? 
he was on olbermann, a bit more subdued. both he and miss harriet have benefited from being at the town hall.
julio has been offered an internship and a job announcing for the local baseball team.
miss harriet has been offered a house by a local politician.
if you go to an obama town hall event, do all you can to get to the microphone!
Back in the day, was it customary for the president to address the nation every other week?
IIRC President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the tradition of addressing the American public on a regular basis. It was Ronald Reagan who started giving addresses every Saturday over the radio waves. President Obama continues the tradition with his first weekly address on the 24th January: whitehouse.gov
Dammit, who bumped this? I read the first post and started frantically searching for the speech online. Finally I found Hulu’s, “Watch it live in 13 minutes.”
Stupid question, but what’s the difference between today’s speech and a State of the Union Address? Everyone seems to be in the audience today.
The State of the Union is constitutionally mandated.
That doesn’t really explain the difference. The real difference is tradition.
The constitution calls for the president to give congress the state of the union “from time to time.” It doesn’t really say how many times, or when he should do this.
Inaugurated presidents don’t usually give state of the unions, so that is why this speech is technically not the state of the union.
The president can, however, address a joint session of congress for any reason he feels is necessary. So this speech was an address to a joint session of congress, and not the state of the union address. In other words, a the state of the union is a particular type of speech that is addressed to a joint session of congress. It happens every year without an inauguration. Every other time you see a president address a joint session it is simply a joint session address.
Since there’s no thread about President Obama’s magnificent speech last night, I’ll just put this here.
Obama Address Draws 52.3 Million Viewers
People liked it too.
The few brief clips of Jindal’s response that I’ve seen have just been horrible. The man does not know how to present himself on camera, and if he’s the best the GOP has to offer at the moment, then I’m seriously worried.
It’s not just you. Jindal’s awfulness has actually stolen the limelight from President Obama’s speech, because the contrast could not have been more stark. Even major conservatives are moaning about how bad he was. Except Limbaugh, but that’s to be expected.
I’m not worried, in fact, giddy and joyous are closer to my reactions to the reactions of Jindal (who doesn’t even have the balls to go by his real name, Piyush Jindal. Sure, President Obama used to go by the name Barry, but changed it back to his real name Barack before entering politics. Now only freepers call him Barry). I hope and pray that the 2012 Republican ticket is Palin/Jindal. What a gift that would be.
lots of people have childhood nicknames they don’t use as adults. many billys and bobbys become bill or william, bob or robert, once they get adult jobs. not to mention susies becoming sue, susan, or susannes, or pattys becoming pat or patricia. it is a growing up thing. ( no, i can’t explain jimmy carter… perhaps he just doesn’t like the name james.)
while i can see how barry is a nickname for barack, and even rod for milorad; i have a bit of trouble figuring how bobby is a nickname for piyush.
Gov. Jindal’s explanation is that he gave the nickname to himself as a four-year-old after watching The Brady Bunch. (I imagine that the name Piyush probably got a lot of negative attention from other children.)
okay… this is why you wait and see what nickname others will give you. he could have lucked out with… scooter or nub or something even more entertaining.
piyush is a tough name to find an english nic for and its meaning (nectar) really doesn’t help either.
as far as the brady bunch is concerned… i guess it is a good thing he wasn’t watching gilligan’s island.