WilliamPitt (56,185 posts)
I am a total sucker for the annual State of the Union speech.
Total sucker.
I know I know I know I know, it's a show, it's TV, it is pretty words once again, and words are wind...I know, OK, so shaddap and let me enjoy the spectacle.
Especially when the guy on the stump knows how to get it done. Watching the W. Bush SOTU speeches was like getting beaten with sticks. Watching Clinton was like watching art in creation, most of the time anyway. Watching Bush Sr. was like watching pudding watch pudding. Watching Reagan was agony, but always a good show, even towards the end, because that's what he did.
President Obama knows how to get it done...and since it sounds like he's going to be flipping a few rhetorical daggers at the *ahem* legacy of Ronald Reagan tonight, the looks on the faces of the meth-addled House GOP howler monkeys will be worth the price of admission right there.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/democrats-reagan-era-obama-state-of-the-union
...and maybe, just maybe, if he parks it deep enough tonight, and I mean over the wall and the water tank and far into the wheat field...maybe he can penetrate the "both sides are to blame" gibberish peddled by the "news media" and shake this shit up.
Yeah, I know, that's asking a lot. But I can dream.
It's a show. Enjoy it. The GOP will be collectively looking like they're sucking on lemons if St. Ronald takes a beating tonight.
Good.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024403788
This dog, and pony show got old after the first week of his campaign trail. But still, Rivers is over the moon, and enamored with Oblahma. His eyes can seem to see no wrong. The "centrist" is pure as the driven snow.
I think I may need a barf bag.
A bit later down the thread, he posts a picture of his baby daughter. (She is cute( The problem here is twofold though. One, he posts it as if his daughter is watching the SOTU with rapt attention. She's a BABY!!! Two....tell me you're seriously not getting manicures, Pittstain...
