I generally can't stand to listen to Obama's falsities, but after reading through all the comments on this thread and the shared vitriole of those who did put themselves through the entire speech, I went and listened to it with the cold, clinical curiosity of an anthropologist.

What a masterfully crafted piece of work this was, wrapped in hypocrisy and engineered on the Big Lie model of spinning assertions that turn black into white.

No way that O wrote this all by himself. His most cunning speechwriters concocted this collage of meme distortion to strike every chord, massage every constituency. Like the good puppet that he is, O delivered it with all the nuances bouncing between folksy and intimidating.

His coterie in the background started every applause cycle and standing ovation right on cue. The man's nerve is astonishing; only a psychopath could pull that off.

With a perfectly straight face he announces an end to torture and to Gitmo, as though those had been casual actions with no mark on America's reputation. Now I just wonder when the Congress will get the gonads to indict him for breaking faith with the Constitution, along with Bush and Cheney and their crimes against humanity..

I think the point was he is going to do whatever he wants because he didn't have to worry about elections
The question is will we stop him?

The speech was like reading Atlas Shrugged, only the bad parts. Did not like the idea of our children in government care from day one. There were so many freedoms that he addressed to be diminished, decreased and modified. His vision is of a state run life. The people have spoken last election cycle. Hope the newbies’ do the job.

I worked about 16 hours yesterday. Near the end of that work I had this speech streaming on the laptop while I worked on my workstation. I was tired, drained. I worked on into the night to try to earn enough for my kids' futures, and perhaps buy something nice for my family. As the speech went on I noticed more and more talk of race, equality, etc…lots of passion and cheers. I was pretty tired...and that didn’t help. I had the speech on because I was waiting to see if he was going to mention his plan to do away with the tax benefits of the 529 plans. This is big news in my office. He didn’t. He just hinted about it and spoke in vague reference with “…people working hard to afford college…blah, blah, blah…” I figure he’ll flesh out the details of ruining the college plans of hard-working middle-class families in the next few weeks.

Rush couldn't do it. . I slept, instead. -- j

The republicans don't listen to the message from the American people. Why did they pass obummer's budget? They just didn't get the message sent in the mid terms.

I went to bed early while the Liar-In-Chief was lying.
I would not have watched Mr. Potatohead anyway, but the reason I went to bed early was to get to an early appointment way far on the other side of Birmingham.
I had a broken tooth so infected and otherwise messed up that my regular dentist just could not pull it.
So he referred me to an Alabama Oral &; Facial Surgery specialized tooth extractor of the extraordinaire kind.
This was all more real coming out of my mouth than anything that could ever come out of King Barry's.
Pain killers have kicked in. Think I'll take a nap.
All whoozy-doozy here!

Couldn't bring myself to watch repeat the same old crap. If left in office long enough he would be a Hitler, Stalin, or like some mid east dictator. Good riddence.

What is never mentioned is the real reason why the economy is making at least small gains, in SPITE of the obstacles.
In anticipation of obama's term being almost over. Similar to one of the major reasons things tanked as bad as they did. In anticipation of him taking office.

I'm still trying to figure out if he really believes this stuff or is just a plain liar. What would happen to the United States if everyone believed what came out of his mouth last night? What would happen if we all just went along with his plans?

Some one of his staff needs to lock him in the Oval Office with Surround Sound and force feed him all three parts of Atlas Shrugged along with the Prophecy and America and 2016 by Denesh Desuza. If I was such a staff member I would lock him in with Hillary just for some added shock value.

I did not see or listen to it but the state of the union is in sad shape and no matter what he said nothing changed.

The song "Its all about the base" comes to mind. Substitute "Its all about me" for the base and "Its not about you" for the treble and you have the State of The Union address.

This should cheer you guys up… ;o)

What Obama REALLY said...
http://youtu.be/ukMZNTW4HJQ