He's still talking about 2008? It's the 2012 State of the Union. I know the last 4 years have seemed like one extremely loooooooooooong year because nothing has changed except to get just a little bit worse each day/week/month/year, like a frog being slowly boiled.
If this guy is touting GM as a success story, then it really is as bad as it seems. "The American auto industry is back." Yeah, sure buddy.
"We will do everything we can to help you succeed." To my ears, that sounds vaguely threatening. What was that Ronald Reagan said?
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."UPDATE: Every state must require that students stay in school until they graduate or turn 18? That means we really are wards of the state. You are not your own person. The state owns you. [Something funky is happening with this formatting, but I can't figure out how to stop it. My apologies. It bugs.] UPDATE II: Any person who serves in our military should be granted citizenship ASAP. Why we don't already do that is a mystery. The student issue is much murkier to me. UPDATE III: What about Keystone?! I think he is full of natural gas. "Thousands of Americans have jobs because of [renewable energy]." That sounds about right. Thousands of Americans have jobs while millions are unemployed or underemployed. UPDATE IV: How about you and your wife stop taking separate Air Force 1 flights everywhere? "Send me a bill that creates these jobs." Um, bills don't create jobs. People do. Seriously. "Nation-building at home." That is a good line. I wish he understood how that was done (see above). "Americans who play by the rules everyday." That's getting harder and harder to do as government creates evermore rules. UPDATE V: Still talking about Bush! It's 20-f***ing-12! Too bad you were in office when the BP oiled spilled and you didn't do anything about it. We're not bailing you out ever again. No, we'll just set up the system (as we did before -- and by "we" I mean the government at large, both Democrat and Republican) so that you get preferential treatment in the formulation of our regulations. UPDATE VI: Class warfare -- here we go! Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate because he is primarily being taxed now on his investments, the money he earned to make those investments was already taxed at a higher rate. People need to understand this. I can and do call it class warfare, sir. Just because you're picking on millionaires and billionaires (which apparently, people making over $250k are) doesn't mean you're not preying on the politics of envy and penalizing people for their success. Just because someone can pay something, doesn't mean they should be required to. Where does that end? A person making $250k is now a millionaire by Obama's standards, how long until they lower that again? Like a slowly boiled frog ... "Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress." Now, that is good. Get him that bill tomorrow. Now he's getting into stuff that bores me. "Ask the Congress to grant me the authority ..." I don't like much that grants anyone more authority. Let's all stop pretending that Abraham Lincoln is the father of the Republican party of today. Things have changed so much and both political parties have changed their ideological stripes in the 100+ years since the Civil War that these statements are ridiculous. We should all take note there have been few, if any, principles which tie our political parties together. The political parties exist to maintain and grab power in our government. Their ideology is to get elected. America is not in decline. America is not in decline. If you wish it enough, it might come true. "As long as I am president, I intend to keep it that way (as the most important country or some such)." Please let us only have a year left. Then what he says could be true. I'm only staying up to see Mitch Daniels give the rebuttal in the hope that he announces his candidacy for president. I realize that I once wished for Rick Perry to get into the race and we know how that turned out. I think when you're in battle you'd probably look out to where the enemy is, but I know as much about being in battle as President Obama does. UPDATE VII: Was Hillary Clinton just reduced to "a woman who ran against [Obama] for president"? She can't be pleased by that. I think he thought he was going to get applause lines after each "This nation is great ..." But I bet everybody is sitting there thinking about how pissed Hillary is right now. Thank you and good night. PS. Run, Mitch, run! PPS. "A government who serves the people, not supervises them." Just so. Run, Mitch, run! For the love of God, man. Run. |
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