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What a different speech this could have been. And it’s only luck that allowed President Obama’s first State of the Union (although it’s his third speech to a joint session of Congress) to be as boring as it was.
The presentation opened with a series of banalities. “When the Union was turned back at Bull Run, and the Allies first landed at Omaha Beach, victory was very much in doubt,” Obama intoned. “When the market crashed on Black Tuesday, and civil rights marchers were beaten on Bloody Sunday, the future was anything but certain.”
Indeed it was. A...
Let Me Be Clear: It Was A Boring Speech
As you believe Obama was lying, I did not believe much of what your guy said. I believe even less of what your new guys say as their words are demonstrably false.
The State of the Union was boring in that it really wasn't a campaign speech. It simply laid out the year behind us and what may be ahead. It was a frank discussion about a number of things. The exchange between Obama and the Republicans in Baltimore was better but the SOTU was a good start.
Here are the principles.
Obama has an agenda. He ran on campaign...