State of the Union Address
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Joni Who?
Please call all the nearest hospitals in Washington D.C. and put them on standby. There will be hundreds of Republicans coming in suffering from third-degree burns because Obama dropped the mic.
Truth hurts, but life imitates art.
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Please call all the nearest hospitals in Washington D.C. and put them on standby. There will be hundreds of Republicans coming in suffering from third-degree burns because Obama dropped the mic.
Truth hurts, but life imitates art.
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Fortunately we were out to dinner and missed the entire useless exercise.
The dinner was memorable.
The dinner was memorable.
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IMO, the SOTU is outdated and is just a platform for the sitting president to address his fangirls and fanboys, nothing more.
When I heard a group of conservatives complaining, after the second election, about how Obama always sounds like he's campaigning, one of them pointed out "Why should he feel the need to stop? It's working for him isn't it? I mean, he's still president isn't he?" And his SOTU speech in the beginning immediately reminded me of that.
Anyone, and I do mean anyone, looking objectively can see that Democrats and liberals in general walk all over everyone else and just kick all their asses when it comes to being good communicators, speakers, salespeople and advertisers.
Anyone, and I do mean anyone, looking objectively can see that Democrats and liberals in general walk all over everyone else and just kick all their asses when it comes to being good communicators, speakers, salespeople and advertisers.
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It's rather telling that the GOP establishment chose her in particular for the rebuttal speech.
Yup. Something the left can't fathom: a conservative woman. Horrors!
(Note: I did not see either speech)
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That's one of the silliest statements I've seen all day. And I've been watching Mermaid Beach MP Ray Stevens have a bit of a meltdown on camera. But it's only 3.30pm here, so it may yet be topped.
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No, what's telling us that they chose one of the most conservative of their members, certainly the most conservative of the new ones to make the speech.
To me it says a lot about the direction the Republican Party wants to go.
Just havin' a bit of fun.
But Rugcat makes a good point that the GOP is conservative and wants everybody to know it. And maybe that the party has moved beyond Romney?
But a young, new, conservative, woman is quite a contrast to Ms. Clinton.
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It is true there's a bit of sexism involved in assessing a far right conservative woman.
It's like when you run across a woman who is a serial killer. We know they exist, although they are rare, but it still boggles the mind.
You could have just said a woman whose a carpenter or a lumberjack or a race car driver. You didn't have to put this particularly young woman in the same category as Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy or Ed Gein or Albert Fish.
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Yeah, that's a bit of a low blow.
And my "fun" was better.
(I have another really good analogy, but I think I'll keep it to myself)
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Actually, considering how the CURRENT REPUBLICAN PARTY is acting, I'm kind of shocked to find women supporting them.
Shocked...and a little depressed.
Shocked...and a little depressed.
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Lol.
It's unfathomable how she won, with the whole State apologizing for her.
I wonder if Illinois is ever going to apologize for Obama...
But I find it hilarious, how a near-pointless SOTU and an accompanying response summons the long knives. WTF did Ernst say or do that was so awful? Seriously. You don't like her. Fair enough. You disagree with her politics. Fair enough. But she's a political novice when it comes to national politics. I thought she did fine for what was--again--a pointless exercise, by and large. She sounded way better than Rubio, imo
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No, because we have no reason to.
We will, however, apologize for Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan, and the occasional Daley.
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And why would Iowa need to apologize for Ernst?
That's my point. Specific criticisms are fine.
Joni Who?
Please call all the nearest hospitals in Washington D.C. and put them on standby. There will be hundreds of Republicans coming in suffering from third-degree burns because Obama dropped the mic.
Truth hurts, but life imitates art.
I think he may have forgotten that he said this last fall - about a month before the election:
”I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”
The GOP did quite well in the election and the Obama policies lost.
I think that's a dangerous interpretation to make, regardless of who said what. A lot of the policies Obama was pushing passed as initiatives at the state level. In conservative states. The policies themselves mostly poll pretty well on their own.
A couple of more recent examples: his policy on Cuba has 60% support, and his executive order on immigration 52% support in the polls.
Well, alrighty then.
Her speech was clearly and expertly written by someone knowledgeable in the semiotics of country western songs like God Bless The USA. If you planned a drinking game around the number of times Ernst used the phrase "hard working" and "God", everyone would have been tanked halfway through. The dogwhistle racism and xenophobia were enough to have my basset mix in full throated song for the rest of the evening, were she not snoring away under the afghan.
The other thing is that Ernst's campaign ads around here were known for being exceptionally tasteless and disingenuous. Exceptionally.