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Last night was not the first SOTU.  His very first one was First State of the Congress.  Remember that one?  Check out the post and you tell what exactly was so different from last night, OK?

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Good God Almighty!  Newsweek Kook: Obama Should Be on Mount Rushmore For His Speech (Video)

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And these Obamedia kooks wonder why Fox News tramples their very existence every day?

Newsbusters: Fineman: Obama Should Be On Mt. Rushmore For That Speech

HOWARD FINEMAN, NEWSWEEK: If presidential leadership were only about giving speeches, the jackhammers would already be at work on Mt. Rushmore. I thought the guy dominated the room, used humor, occupied the middle ground. It was both theatrically very good, playing in the hall much better than it read on the page, tactically quite smart. Keith, this was one of the most conservative speeches that I, leaving aside the fact that the tax, some of the Bush tax cuts will lapse, some of the other features in there. By and large, talking about tax cuts, stressing tax cuts, spending freezes, talking about the virtues of the econ, free enterprise and the economy. In many, many ways, this is one of the most conservative speeches that a Democratic president has given since I think the middle of Bill Clinton’s time. And it was tactically quite smart on the President’s part. And his tone, which was all sweet reasonableness, designed as Rachel said to force the Republicans to stand up as they eventually did, I thought it was, it was very, very well done, and really left the Republican governor of Virginia very little to say. He didn’t have much to say to begin with. [...]

To say the least, last night speech was an atrocious speech.  It was truly an apostate person'e view on reality.

By the way, go here for the infamous speech of the conglomerated butthead Obama.

About Last Night

[...] After that bizarre, defiant, blame-dodging, position-ditching, doubling-back, credit-grabbing performance, I’d be inclined to call Barack Obama a joke. But protocol and manners require me to call him the president of the United States, and after all, we’re stuck with him in that role for another three years, at least.

I don’t really want to go down the road the left did, with their rabid hatred and childish insults of George Bush. It’s probably too late to swear off that. I’ve tried really hard to be respectful to the office and the fact that he holds it. But I’m beginning to get the left’s visceral reaction to everything our often inarticulate, chimp-like former president did and said. The difference between the Bush and Obama cases is, that clown-like cheering section notwithstanding last night, even Obama’s own stalwarts  are rejecting half of what he does and says, and feel he has betrayed them and let them down.

After last night’s pander-and-switch fest, I’d be amazed if he maintains any support on the left at all. They were already going soft on him, had been for a while, at levels beyond any questioning of George Bush by the right even well into the second term, when Iraq was exploding and he was pushing that ill-considered immigration thing. [...]

I am inclined to believe Jules on this:

[...] Firedoglake is more like Hair of the Dog this morning, yapping in defense. You know, in this case, maybe they should be called Kool-Aid Goggles.

Ezra Klein is smitten:

All in all, it was a good speech. But it was a good speech because it told the story of a good presidency and an able president.

Can’t begrudge the 25-year-old a little puppy love.

Text of the speech here, BTW.

Ha! Not exactly “You lie!” but Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reportedly mouthed the words “Not true” as Obama attacked the court over its campaign finance decision. Politico.

Ha! ThinkProgress takes umbrage at McCain apparently snarking “Blame it on Bush,” after one of Obama’s more naked inheritance dodges.

ThinkProgress insists indignantly, “Stating facts is not blaming Bush,” but I like the little knowing nod, a play for applause, which he gets from an appreciate audience that knows exactly what he’s doing. Not before a bit of a defensive blink, like he’s not sure whether they’ll buy it or not, or maybe can’t believe he managed to get the words out without his voice cracking.

Crooks and Liars is smitten, already thinking about a nooner or some afternoon delight: “Very forceful … very engaging throughout … brought his oratory skills to the table as he did during the election.” Really gave it to those “republicans.” Not to be confused with the “democrats,” I guess.

E.J. Dionne via RCP notes that Obama in the harsh light of his recent failures looks like a loser but declares him after last night’s stalwart performance, “ready to do battle.”

Joan Walsh at Salon: “Finally some spine. The president gives (another) great speech, but it will take more than words to get his agenda back on track … ” No kidding. He’ll need votes. In Congress and at the polls in November.

But it’s starting to look like I misread all that. They bought it, want another date, even after watching Obama make gaga eyes and a couple of clumsy moves at that skank on the other barstool across the aisle. Maybe they will call after all. Beer goggles … they aren’t just for smoky bars at closing time anymore!

Greenwald curiously limits himself to whacking the Supreme Court. Doesn’t seem to want to talk about his guy, whom he’s whacked quite a bit himself over the past year.

Kos with Olbermann: “very very strong … roadmap as to where he wants to go this year as opposed to vague values talk.” The sneering about the uselessness of bi-partisanship is special. Someone needs to tell him about that “I won” thing. It’s a smarmfest. It falls to the Olbster actually introduces the note of reality, as Kos suggests Dems can ride a wave of anti-bank sentiment back into power … or to that mythical, long-sought place where they have the ability to hold and exercise any power.

Olbs: “It would be a bit of a turn, but apparently at least the president of the United States can make that turn politically, we’ll see if anyone else follows him. I’m sure the message is going out they damn well better.”

In other lefty 24-hour news chatter developments, Matthews “forgot he was black.” Must be the lack of a “Negro dialect.” via Boston Herald.

Politico, Matthews clarifies that Obama “has taken us beyond black and white.” Blah blah blah. Old news. When’s he going to take us beyond race-baiting by lefty partisans every time someone questions his policies?

OK, some right reax.

NRO: Obie misrepresents the Citizens United decision. It’s HotAir’s Obamateurism of the Day. Turns out the decision doesn’t give the farm away to foreign corporations. Hannity and Palin think it will be a “huge takeaway moment.”

I dunno, I kinda doubt it. People have been letting him get away with misrepresenatations for a couple of years now. I think the huge takeaway is going to be the continued flailing and inability to accomplish anything.

HotAir has AP’s 10 Whoppers and then adds the ones AP missed.

Gateway lifts the rock on the SOTU job claims, finds “crony capitalism.” $100 m for 15 jobs and a Dem donor’s company. Sorry, I missed that when I was busy mocking all the public sector hack jobs he saved.

Hyscience dozed off, but saw enough to rate an A on chutzpah and Fs on non-partisanship and substance.

Gerson, WaPo, scathingly:

President Obama’s primary problem is not rhetorical — though, about an hour into the State of the Union address, I gave up hoping that it might eventually build toward something remotely interesting. (For much of the speech Obama sounded like a commerce secretary at a professional conference on a particularly uninspired day.) Obama’s problem is not primarily political — though he seems in complete denial about the political dangers he faces. (He amazingly blamed his health-care failure on “not explaining it more clearly.”) Obama’s problem is not a vice president behind his right shoulder who can’t stop his distracting, sycophantic nodding — though it was certainly annoying.

Obama has a reality problem.

Gerson proceeds to address it, point by point.

Never mind, CBS has 83 percent of watchers approving of Obama’s pandering, I mean his proposals. So maybe he gets a bounce out of this, which isn’t too surprising. It’s a bully pulpit. More tellingly, the poll finds 57 percent of watchers don’t think he can pull them off.

Another telling sign of what it was all about. Creating jobs? Moving America forward? Fighting the good fight? Well, the last one, yeah. via Reynolds, “You liked my speech? Please send money.” Be interesting to see if he got any $$$ boune off that.

That’s pretty much where all one-term stands end up. Remaindered.

G’day Ace, etal. Always so good to see you. Screw this politics thing. I’m taking a coffee stroll with some long-dead British regulars. And a long walk with the Old Breed at Peleliu, Okinawa and Guadalcanal.

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Like I said in previous articles and as I said last night, this speech was atrocious and the only ones that have been enlightened by it are the marxist-sociopaths, Ezra Klein the Punk being one of them.

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