Tonight: President Obama's State of the Union address

I am looking forward to President Obama's speech tonight, I am sure he will connect the dots and tell us how he plans to lead us in the upcoming months, what direction he will take, his hopes, his failures, his promises, and his opposition.....look forward to watching and the comments afterwards, please let us know what you think after watching or if you don't watch.

the vegas line for the over/under is 15...

15 being the amount of times he mentions president bush.


everything is bushes fault after all. i'll take the over.

Right....
He will blame Bush (by name, or by era)
He will throw some bones as bribes to the middle class
He will say NOTHING about HOW he will balance the federal budget
He will bash the banks, cause the stock market to decline tomorrow

I will return to this post to receive my score!

Wow looks like you have a copy of the speech? I will wait for the speech, words are like wind, blows are unkind.

dazz.....the speech has already been released PRIOR to the speech.......this happens every SOTU.

Theres one thing that i truely love about this man, that i have noticed.. i never see him looking down, reading from any notes, he is on topic and on point, and is educated about each situation that is going on... i've seen no other presidents do this...maybe there has been some.. i've just never seen them do as he does. Not one of is speeches have i seen him read from notes. He speaks to us.

Imagin....he never looks down because he is ready from two teleprompters....which are at head level.

ready = reading.  Sorry...typo!

If that is true it is never noticible, he never seems to be reading or to be prompted

Imagin......Oh, he is a great speech-maker.  Far better than "Dubya" did.

Okay....let's check my predictions....hmmmm

Yep.....he blamed Bush.
Yep.....tried to bribe the middle class with talk of a budget freeze...which, frankly, his "freeze" only effects 1/7 of the budet.
Yep.....Gave zero info on how he would pay down a 16 trillion national debt.
And....let's watch what Wall Street does tomorrow.....stay tuned!

Well, I caught it 20 minutes late. It was just before he dropped one HECK of a bombshell. Expanding use of Nuclear Plants and Drilling offshore. The ecologists are probably having fits right then. That's going to be ripping through the courts for awhile unless they get regs dropped and use "Executive Orders" to knock them down. (I actually applauded that!)

He spoke about ending the war in 3 years. I'd want to hear that he had some people working on a withdrawl plan for the next 6 months, because that's going to be needed.

I about cracked up laughing when he spoke about repealling DADT ("Don't ask, don't tell") NONE of the military stood and clapped. There's going to be trouble there..Still was a laugh seeing them sit stone faced.

I am sad though he reiterated his previous promise of "transparency" but again, that was false in the beginning along with the lobbyists being allowed there. Not too mention he still wants the health bill as it is, to be approved. Nah, won't happen, redo it. No backroom deals period. But he didn't admit to that...

The rest of it was OK, lots of little things and yes a bit of "Blame Bush" though it wasn't so pointed. Not that I disagree, though the deficit has hit 1 trillion, with his policies it's growing higher...

Illegal aliens, yes strengthen the laws, but let's also get the borders set and when a illegal is found, then deport. No pleas, no whining or crying and they are told "Come back and get caught, it's 1-2 years in the slammer, then release. back to where they came from. More if they're caught again.

All in all, I'd give him a 69 for the speech.

As an aside. Yes, he is a VERY polished speaker. I would put him alongside Reagan in that caliber. But Reagan exuded calm, strength decisiveness. Obama is still seeming (From my feeling) a bit lost in the forest.

NOTE: I went back to Yahoo and they reported he took a page from the Reagan playbook of "Stay the course" however in Reagan book, it was a good thing to do. I doubt in this case it is.

I see our Military coming home but they will be coming home to be unemployed..
True as he said working the disaster, did not raise our INCOME taxes..
Health care is and will be a tremendous task ahead, hope that works out.
I don't see anyone in the lower area classes benefiting anything, he said.. the ones in poverty have stayed stuck in poverty..
About the banks and all those biggies.. pay us back our taxes we paid to help them...it's not an answer.. i think that might put them back into "ruptcee" and the cycle will be on again.

I give it about a 65.. my say is.. after a year, he is still talking...


Theres 2 things personally i worry about, our children, and our elders..i, myself am actually doing all right, it's not been so bad, I'm not rich nor poor, im just in the middle..

I just wish that he had the power to do the things he wants to do. We would need to fire everyone in the senate/house/congress that over stayed their welcome and maybe we could have a change.

Money has been ruling this country, we need to get back to basics...not an easy task.

I admire about him that he is attacking the big problem (banks/lobeing), but probably not enough power to see it through.

Most People don't realize, even though he is the President and has the right idea's, he is just a puppet on a string of some wealthy people.

Hi laguna,

Girl you nailed it!!!!!!! That is the truth...."a puppet". People tend to think that because he is the prez he has all this power, when in reality he is controlled. I think he walked into the presidency not realize just how powerless he would be once in office.

I think he went in with some very good intentions. Lets face reality here......any man in office is going to want to fix the crisis our country is in. This is not by his choice, there are so many other factors here that we as the American public are not aware of behind the scenes.

Lips

President Obama 's first state of the union address was to me about connecting the dots.  He did a pretty good job last night on his speech.  I went to sleep on the speech (shame on me) I ate some chinese food and it was soooooo good that it knocked me out.  I just woke up and its 1340 hours here on the west coast.  I listened to the commentaries and saw some of the speech I missed.  I read all your comments and I thought they were very honest and to the point (not that my opinion means something)
but love seeing you guys fonting your responses.  Now that the speech is over we will see what happens.  I am crossing my fingers but not holding my breath.  I agree with Imagine...I believe that was her that said she didnt see him speak about the poor.  I have been doing taxes here lately and I see the poor doing pretty well on on monetary tax credits....that is there late Christmas present from the government, though it comes once a year, folks left here happy as a jaybird.  God Bless President Obama and God Bless America.....may we work together as one.

P.S. I just thought about this, Jobs, he did mention Jobs.  I am looking forward to jobs staying home and coming back from overseas so that America can't get back to working....maybe with a good job, healthcare will be more viable.  Lets play wait and see.  God Bless America!

Tony,

Good point, but i think what we got to remember is Rome was not built in a day. O'bama went in with wet feet here........let's hope now that he is acclimated to office he can throw his wait around a bit and put his foot down!!

Lips

Well he got in there because people were tired of the past 8 years, and yes Bush was handed a surplus and built up a lot of debt with the war and big banks.  Republicans sat on their hands for sure during the speech, but not matter whose is the President, the responsibility of congress is to work together for the good of the people.  President Obama has a lot of work cut out for him and when he was elected the people spoke.  If you want change you have to be part of the change and there will be another election and I hope in the meantime we can get America back to its greatness and stop the b.s.

and when exactly is that gonna happen?...someone needs to start knitting mittens for satan, cuz when that happens, hell will have surely frozen over.

Obama truly is the "finger wagger in Chief."  Everyone is wrong:  Bush, Congress, Supreme Court, banks, Wall Street, people who make a profit, etc...

His solution to our nation's problems is "MORE OF ME!"

Exactly Lips, Obama is the rookie playing his first year in the pros, so I give him some slack. But I feel strongly that he shouldn't have been elected because he had NO executive experience. The presidential position isnt one that should be tested with "on the job training".

Obama definetly knows what we know already, does he know that we as americans know how utterly corrupt the government is already, is he doing anything about it.. would he lose out on his "free chips" if he did..  does elmer fudd have a problem with the letter R.... will he take that chance... does a square fit the circle?

Well the people must have been sick of the pros because they sure took a bet on a rookie, evidently they saw something about him....that was hope, but when you walk into fire you will get burned, I hope he has a lot of neosporin because the Republicans arent ready to play ball at all, face it....his being there, is very troubling to those who don't want a person of color being president, there are those that just arent accepting him, so folks wont give him the respect that is due and call him President Obama, I am not gonna sugar coat it, the Republicans, the good ole boy network, dont wont him there because he is an African American, you can point your fingers and tried to soften it up but butter is butter and margarine aint butter.  They call him a punk, arrogant, cocky, and a few other names which are substitutes for the more seedy names he has been called, but face it America, President Obama is the president of the United States, the people who have been elected need to do their jobs and work together with our president...unless your job is to give the man hell as they have been doing but everything must change...nothing stays the same, for me Martin Luther King's Dream has come true, that one day a black man would be president and hopefull his dream that little black boys and little black boys willl walk together hand in hand with little white girls and little white boys and that will be when America must embrace the present and leave the same old b.s. behind.....we shall overcome one day, God didnt  bring us this far to leave us now!

I doubt Dr. King's dream included spending trillions of borrowed dollars with very, very little result.

I doubt Dr. King's dream included a White House staff made up of numerous lobbyists.

I doubt that President Obama didnt inherit trillion dollars of debt, I doubt it other presidents didnt have lobbyists, all you post is negative about Obama, and being from Virginia, the confederate flag still flys proudly there and so I know....oh how it hurts that our president is not one of the good ole boys, I mean "Lynchburg, Virginia? Come on now drpysche......but that is your opinion...you post, I post, and we keep it civil right?  But I will still meet you in Washington, D.C. for that drink....at least its nickname is chocolate city....lol....I love your posts dr pysche.......for real I do. 

I could care less if he's black, or half white, or however one wants to see him. I dont care for him as a leader because he is inexperienced. He got elected because of the four letter word  B-U-S-H. Im tired of folks having to defend themselves just because they dont like how Obama is operating, it doesnt mean they are racist, it just means they have different political views. The good ole boy republicans (a group that Obama chose Biden as his VP from---yeah, like Biden screams of hope and change) doesn't want to see anyone as president be it black/white/hispanic/asian whatever if he/she isnt a republican.

I didnt say that, dont defend what isnt true, it is what you perceive, there is a lot of people that dont want him there because he is black..bottom line, his inexperience, well i guess the majority ruled and they are inexperienced voters....huh? well i believe that honesty is the best policy and i keep it real, thats what i feel and of course everyone who doesnt like Obama is not a racist and everyone who didnt like Bush is a racist or hater.  We only feel and see the now, but the past teaches us a lesson and hopefully we are dont make the same mistake.  For a Black Man to get elected, (bottom line when you are of Black decent you are Black I know because I am of the Black Race) now that President Obama is president, he is half white.  That doesnt ring a bell with me he is a Black Man.  But America has to recoginize and be open and stop putting racism and their denials of bigotry in the forefront, stop hiding it.  Talk openly about it, I do.  As soon as you mention that SOME people dont like him because he is african american you call the race card....what you feel inside shows on your face and that the real deal, your actions and your Reactions.  We Shall Overcome Someday!  When you post in an open forum you have to expect a different opinion and I am not changing mine, but I do respect yours.

dazz.....first, let me say I haven't seen a Confederate Flag in Virginia in many years.

But, bottom line, dazz.....I love the banter with you!  Yes....Washington D.C. is still on!