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    OBAMA; SAYONARA! SOTU LIVE BLOG!

    By Richard Day on Mon, 01/11/2016 - 9:38pm |

     

    HISTORY

    I would like to do a live blog on the STATE OF THE UNION tonight.

    I wrote a few thoughts about this event last night.

    I would appreciate any thoughts you might have during the presentation beginning at 8pm cst?

    I have and will amend this beginning from time to time.

     

    Forget the hate tomorrow night.

    This is going to be my President's swan song?

    Oh some repub idiot will reach for water and speak gibberish, for sure.

    But nobody will remember it! ha

    Historians will write a couple of hundred years from now about a conflagration of events that ended up with the election of Barack Hussein Obama, for sure!

    I really do not see this kind of election happening in this century again?

    We had an Attorney General who was Black.

    We had a National Security Advisor who was Black,

    We had all these women appointed to positions of power; numbers that we have never seen before.

    Hell, the Secretary of State (whom I endorse as President) had a Muslim woman as one of her chief advisors!

    I never saw this coming.

    Hopefully, what I have seen will be seen again?

    But the time had come!

    I witnessed it!

    I shall die a happy man (although grandkids and stuff also made me happy!) after seeing these strange events in this country.

    We are an empire, after all, and all empires exhibit their sins!

    There are so many issues that My President will discuss tomorrow!

    GUNS

    Should we really grant the right for individuals to breach the gates of elementary schools or hospitals or Walmarts or legislatures or Congress, itself?

    WELFARE

    Should single mothers piss in front of food stamp administrators in order to procure food for their children?

    SOCIAL SECURITY

    My Social Security benefits are already 'means tested'.  Should those receiving over 30 grand a year be means tested?

    TAXES

    Should corporations be taxed on monies received overseas?

    CORPORATIONS

    Should corporations be shielded from stockholders civil suit assaults?

    WAR

    Should our nation send in a million or more troops into other continents in order to restore order?

    Should we nuke North Korea?

    Should we nuke Iran?

    CUBA?

    I thought Clinton would take care of this for chrissakes!

    So it takes two decades?

    Well its a big f*&ckin deal as far as I am concerned; assuming Rubio or Cruz are crushed!

    I dunno, I am looking forward to my President's Message tomorrow.

    I would like to see this blog as a live blog tomorrow night.

    We need some energy at this blog site anyway.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Comments

    If you're hosting tomorrow night I'll contribute.

    The story up to now.

    o Obama took us as far as was politically possible towards this State taking responsibility for the health of the citizens.

    o And his foreign policy, wisely, was "Don't just do something. Stand there". 


    by Flavius on Mon, 01/11/2016 - 11:47pm

    ALL RIGHTY THEN!

    Flavius shows up....THAT IS ENOUGH FOR ME. 

    hahhhahahahahaah


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 12:20am

    Here is a short history of the State of the Union from The Beast:

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/12/when-the-state-of-the-union-had-drama.html

    Oh and Geraldo thinks this Nation was not ready for a Black President:

    http://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/01/12/foxs-geraldo-rivera-the-nation-was-not-ready-fo/207921

    Here is really a nice story discussing the relationship between Biden and Obama; it is sweet:

    http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/11/1468635/-Joe-Biden-says-Barack-Obama-offered-to-help-financially-after-Beau-Biden-s-death?detail=email

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 2:20pm

    "As a constitutional scholar, I just want to point out that Ted Cruz cannot be president."


    by Michael Maiello on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 5:47pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    All righty then, I hereby render unto Mike M (even though he decided to take off his shirt again) the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him (without a shirt) from all of me.

    hahhahahahah

    Damn better betchya, this asshole cannot be President of the United States of America.

    I MEAN HIS DADDY FOUGHT WITH CASTRO FOR CHRISSAKES. hahhahahah


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 6:06pm

    Just wanted to make your day by mentioning that Ted Cruz is boycotting the SOTU.  Now I'll ruin it by telling you Kim Davis is going to be there.

    Ha!


    by Ramona on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 6:15pm

    hahhahhahaha

    Oh I had to add this little tidbit:

    I was going to add this to my reply to Mike M:

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wapo-op-ed-cruz-citizenship

    ​WHO NEEDS HIM ANYWAY?

    HAHHAHAAHAHAHAH

    I mean Cruz aint gonna sit next to the First Lady anyway!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 6:37pm

    Well, we did not get that far with this.

    ha

    But this is a good speech.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:05pm

     

    Is it me, or is this turning out to be one helluva SOTU speech?  The President seems confident and completely at ease.


    by MrSmith1 on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:10pm

    Yeah, I like this and I like this man!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:11pm

    Ohhhhhhhhhh

    He is a good man!


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:10pm

    Here is the full speech

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/state-of-the-union-live-video_56941506e4b0cad15e65ce6e?utm_hp_ref=politics

     


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:24pm

    I mostly missed it. What I heard was the same old-  no I'm not going to continue - same old. What it was was the same old good human being Obama so transcendently is.Maybe he won't be ranked as one of our best presidents. But I think he'll be seen as one of the nicest.. 


    by Flavius on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:28pm

    Niki does not like My President:

    http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-01-06/haleys-response-to-obama-not-1st-time-on-national-stage


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:37pm

    Beautiful speech, best SOTU I can remember.

    And I have to say, I was (pleasantly) shocked by Nikki Haley's rebuttal. She spent like thirty seconds on Obama and the Democrats. That was a rebuttal against Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.


    by Michael Wolraich on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:37pm

    I just caught that Mike

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-state-of-the-union-response_569420b4e4b09dbb4bac3558?utm_hp_ref=politics

    Interesting.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 10:46pm

    I thought it was a remarkable expression of the Republican establishment's anxiety. These rebuttals are always hyper-focused on the president, but this year, they see a deeper threat from their own base.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 12:03am

    I guess they are being forced to face the reality of a party that is losing ground.


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 4:21am

    Why do people keep saying this? We lost the house. We lost the senate. We've lost far more governors and state houses than we've won. We still hold the presidency but Obama got less votes in 2012 than in 2008. I'd like to think that none of the idiots vying for the republican nomination can win the presidency but I'm not at all sure that's the case.

    We're losing on abortion rights. We're losing on voter rights. We're losing on gun control. We're losing on campaign finance legislation. We're not holding the line. We're not maintaining the status quo. We're going backwards. We're losing.

    So where are we winning? We won on gay marriage. We passed a weak not very comprehensive health care bill. When I tally up the wins and losses it looks to me like we're the party that's losing ground.

    I'd like to think we're approaching a tipping point. I'd like to think we're going to turn things around. But pretending we're not the ones losing now isn't going to help make that happen.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 6:52am

    We "won" on gay marriage based on judicial decision, not legislative initiative - a bit of a surprise based on this court, but little to do with the Democratic administration.

    All the other stuff we're losing legislatively at the local level where we don't even have a game plan, and any executive order has a very unlikely chance of affecting state law. They of course don't care about California when they're taking Iowa and Texas and Montana.

    This kind of over-optimism on Democrats' part is one aspect that scares the hell out of me in the Presidential race - it's about the only thing we've managed to hold on yet many seem to feel it's a done deal.

    2008 Obama won over McCain/Palin by 7.2% of the popular vote, 192 electoral votes.

    2012 Obama was 3.9% over Romney/Ryan, only 126 electoral votes difference.

    After the current 4 more years of Gerrymandering & Citizens United, hard to be optimistic.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 8:00am

    Is the glass half empty or has it melted into a blog. hahahahahahaha

    Yeah state legislatures are just destroying this economy.

    Repub govs are doing everything they can do to make the poor suffer and the wage earner to weep!

    But look at it this way Ocean....

    I had some good thing to say, but I FOUND NOTHING!

    hahahhahaah

    ​


    by Richard Day on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 3:53pm

    Lots of pearl clutching?


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 8:58pm

    Facts. A clear eyed look at the objective reality.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 9:59pm

    Sorry I couldn't add much last night.  My computer decided it was tired and kept falling asleep.  I did manage to give you a headline, though!  (My new laptop came yesterday, just in time.  But I have a Windows 7 now and it's a Windows 10 so I thought I would have time to play with it for a while before making it the work horse.  Looks like today's the day.)


    by Ramona on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 8:12am

    Oh Ramona, everything is good and you know how I love the headline!

    Actually I awoke from my nap five minutes into the speech. haha I was actually in a dream and the Prez was talking to me and I could not figure it out.

    We had a good response (at least compared to my most recent posts.

    Play by play just does not work for a SOTU!


    by Richard Day on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 10:45am

    I think you're right.  The speech was riveting and I was happy there were no distractions in the house.


    by Ramona on Wed, 01/13/2016 - 3:04pm