Obama's State of the Union remarks

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Obama’s speach was very centrist oriented; Rep. Ryan’s (R-Wisconsin) reponse afterwards IMHO was a typical partisan response. As such its very unlikely that anything meaningful will be accomplished this year.
 
gamewell45 said:
Obama’s speach was very centrist oriented; Rep. Ryan’s (R-Wisconsin) reponse afterwards IMHO was a typical partisan response. As such its very unlikely that anything meaningful will be accomplished this year.
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Actually, I think that’s the plan. Party of “No” and all.
 
With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. We need to get behind this innovation. And to help pay for it, I’m asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but they’re doing just fine on their own.
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So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: by 2035, 80% of America’s electricity will come from clean energy sources. Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all – and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen
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We will put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. We will make sure this is fully paid for, attract private investment, and pick projects based on what’s best for the economy, not politicians.Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car…Within the next five years, we will make it possible for business to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98% of all Americans
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So tonight, I am proposing that starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years. This would reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, and will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
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And if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans.
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In the coming months, my administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitive America. I will submit that proposal to Congress for a vote – and we will push to get it passed.
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And because the American people deserve to know that special interests aren’t larding up legislation with pet projects, both parties in Congress should know this: if a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.
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Our troops come from every corner of this country – they are black, white, Latino, Asian and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love. And with that change, I call on all of our college campuses to open their doors to our military recruiters and the ROTC. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.
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Apparently his speech was quite a success, as far as garnering support is concerned. I’m watching CNN right now, and according to their polls, 61% of the viewers had a positive opinion of Obama’s policies before the speech (I think the negative number was 32%) and after the speech, it was 77% to 18%. Anderson Cooper noted, of course, that typically the viewers of a state of the union address are typically disproportionately aligned with the party of the president delivering it. Still, 16% of viewers switched from negative to positive from watching the speech.
 
Raskolnikov said:
Apparently his speech was quite a success, as far as garnering support is concerned. I’m watching CNN right now, and according to their polls, 61% of the viewers had a positive opinion of Obama’s policies before the speech (I think the negative number was 32%) and after the speech, it was 77% to 18%. Anderson Cooper noted, of course, that typically the viewers of a state of the union address are typically disproportionately aligned with the party of the president delivering it. Still, 16% of viewers switched from negative to positive from watching the speech.
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I think a lot of that hast to do with his proposals for reducing the size and budget of the Federal government through consolidation and budget cuts, immigration reform, and tax code revision. He touched on a lot of conservative points.
 
EmperorNapoleon said:
I think a lot of that hast to do with his proposals for reducing the size and budget of the Federal government through consolidation and budget cuts, immigration reform, and tax code revision. He touched on a lot of conservative points.
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Well considering that the average liberal thinks so highly of themselves that they see all conservatives as intellectually below them, all I’ve got to say to Obama is go pound sand.

You think I’m stupid enough to actually believe this man after the last two years and the extremely liberal beliefs he holds?

He’s hoping that he can get re-elected and the subjects of this country will have forgotten everything and re-elect a Democrat controlled government again.

You libs can drool all over the place with this, hoping us conservatives will be happy with it. But it’s a good thing I’m not on CNN or MSNBC giving an official conservative response because it would have been censored out.
 
bbarrick8383 said:
You think I’m stupid enough to actually believe this man after the last two years and the extremely liberal beliefs he holds?
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I think you should wait and see what his proposal to Congress says once it’s completed.
 
Unless somewhere in his speech he announced his resignation i really could not care less what he said.
 
EmperorNapoleon said:
I think you should wait and see what his proposal to Congress says once it’s completed.
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I don’t know what’s going to be in it, but I know what’s going to be in it.

Unless he got up there and said that Reagan is his new hero, announced his conversion to Catholicism and has a new found dedication to the Pro-Life cause I’m with estesbob.

The words that were coming out of his mouth and the words that were going through his mind were saying two entirely different things.
 
I enjoyed the salmon joke, but that was about it.

Other than that more centrist/moderate nonsense.
 
bbarrick8383 said:
Well considering that the average liberal thinks so highly of themselves that they see all conservatives as intellectually below them, all I’ve got to say to Obama is go pound sand.
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That’s no more accurate than saying that the average conservative sees all liberals as fit targets for shooting. A bit too emotional, I think.

Better to concentrate on what the President said and why you don’t think it’ll work than to drag out a stereotype that isn’t true.
 
EmperorNapoleon said:
I think you should wait and see what his proposal to Congress says once it’s completed.
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We can’t pre-judge. There’s time to see how much will come to fruition. I’m hoping that The Party of No sheds that image and instead works on behalf of our nation.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
That’s no more accurate than saying that the average conservative sees all liberals as fit targets for shooting. A bit too emotional, I think.

Better to concentrate on what the President said and why you don’t think it’ll work than to drag out a stereotype that isn’t true.
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Like I said earlier though, what that man says and what he is thinking is two entirely different things. I have no doubt in my mind that those words were fashioned in a very artistic way to make people think that this man has somehow come to his senses after two years of being in office.

Emotional, yes, irrational, no.
 
I don’t disagree with most of the SotUA (I adamantly disagree with his so-call “Health Care Reform”). I don’t think there was much about the speech that was disagreeable, but then again, it was a high altitude speech designed specifically to point out goals that everyone in the country can get behind, which is specifically what the President SHOULD be doing. He shouldn’t be using the SotU as a soap box to dictate to the minor party what he and his party are going to do in spite of their objections (like last year’s speech). The speech was devoid of specifics or a plan to achieve these lofty goals, and it is those specifics that are the direct cause of the divisions in this country. While I think he will get a bump from the speech, when the rubber meets the road, and it is time to find money for all of these “investments” that he called for, he is going to run head first into a Republican party that is stocked with Freshmen Tea Party members who (hopefully) will refuse to budge on new spending without significant earmark and entitlement reform.
 
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