Tag: state of the union address

How Delightful, How Delicious

Nancy Pelosi has just poked a tyrant, a demagogue, a racist, a would-be dictator in the eye. 

Donald Trump revels in standing before large adoring audiences who cheer him on.  Instead Mrs. Pelosi has said “No.”  We won’t sit in our house and listen to your rambling non-sense.  There is no law that requires we listen.  Just send us your written report on the state of the union.

Trump will likely speak in the Senate chamber and it will be broadcast on television.  But who will be listening?

President Obama’s Aspirational State of the Union Address

No one wants to admit their errors and no president wants to tell the people that we are failing as nation.

It is with that understanding that I listened to the president’s state of the union address.

The following excerpt from a transcript of his speech tells us what he believes and really how he failed. After all his Hope and Change message in his first campaign for president was about the future. He just did not accomplish his goals. In my view he is an excellent speaker but he lacked the skills needed to achieve his goals.

Following is an excerpt from the transcript of the president’s speech. All very aspirational just as his victory speech in Chicago 2008.

So let’s talk about the future, and four big questions that I believe we as a country have to answer, regardless of who the next president is or who controls the next Congress.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy?

(APPLAUSE)

Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us, especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change?

(APPLAUSE)

Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

(APPLAUSE)

And finally, how can we make our politics reflect what’s best in us, and not what’s worst?

Yes, the economy has recovered from the worst recession since the Great Depression and yes we are militarily very strong but most Americans are unhappy with our place in the world.

Barack Obama was not our worst president but he was far from our best.

Presidential Race = Reality Show

 

Did anyone really take Herman Cain as a serious candidate for president?  His 9-9-9 plan for taxation was a perfect take off of the pizza for $9.99.  His appearance with Stephen Colbert confirms what we all knew.  He is the text book example of self promotion.

Mr. Cain has been reported to be the person who will offer a Tea Party response to the president’s State of the Union address.  Are Tea Party leaders serious or are they also part of a self promotion agenda?

When Newt Gingrich attacked CNN’s John King and the entire media for his second wife’s interview with ABC it was a perfect example of utter nonsense.  Neither ABC nor other media outlets put the words into his second ex-wife.

“Oops” it has all been great fun.  $10,000 bets that only a multi-millionaire could really afford tells us that few people really take the race for president seriously.

Seriously, does anyone believe that the next four years will be any better no matter who wins the election?  I don’t!