Comments on: Greenhut Dissects State of the Union

By: Eric in SR

Eric in SR — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:20:32 +0000

Or read Steven Greenhut’s take on it–I was remiss in not mentioning this in my last post!

By: Eric in SR

Eric in SR — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:19:26 +0000

10-4, Beelzebub. But why fritter away valuable time watching the SOTU (unless you’re participating in a drinking game in which you must take a swallow every time Obama says “fair,” “fairness,” or “Let me be clear”) when you can just turn the radio on the next day and listen to Mark Levin or other radio talk show hosts tell you everything you need to know about the SOTU (or make that SOTE, Bob, as the case may be) farce?

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:14:30 +0000

I haven’t listened to a State of the Empire speech in years.

If I was forced I’d probably stab ice picks through my eardrums and gouge my eyes out with a grapefruit spoon.

I just don’t see how you people do it. I just can’t stomach it so I don’t watch or listen to it at all.

By: Beelzebub

Beelzebub — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:24:39 +0000

Another speech where the words are polar opposites to his behavior for the last 3 years. Fairness? heh. For the last 3 years Wall Street has financially raped Main Street and been rewarded for it by our government. Ordinary people who follow all society’s rules have been forced to bail out rule breakers and criminals of the worst kind. And none of the main crooks have been arrested, indicted, prosecuted or jailed. All protected and rewarded by Obama, et al. And he has the nerve to talk about “fairness”? Gag me.

What you witnessed last night was more Kabuki theater. A system that masquerades as a two-party adversarial system when all you really have is one-party rule. Obama = Bush. A stranglehold on power. Don’t you find it strange that even when we are in the deepest of turmoil as a nation as both the dems and pubs fail us – that third parties make little or no progress in American elections or politics? Look at how the Tea Party and it’s leaders were effectively morphed in the mainstream Republican party.

To give you an idea of how apathetic the American public is becoming – the Obama SOTU TV ratings from 2011 to 2012 were down by 12%. From 2010 to 2012 the ratings were down 21%. From 2009 to 2012 the ratings were down 27%.

At least Americans are starting to catch on slowly. Won’t be long and the government will have to provide free food at the voting polls just to get us to show up and cast a ballot – just like they had to do in the old Soviet Union.

By: David H

David H — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:58:42 +0000

Definitely nailed that one.