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On January 21 2015 12:33 xDaunt wrote: Eh, Joni is doing better than expected. I actually like the content and overall tact of the speech. The presentation is not particularly compelling, though. You expected worse than "Siri" reading a script she was inserted into? | ||
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The SOTU isn't for a few more hours but we've already got an early contender for the night's worst tweet from a sitting member of Congress. Quoth Rep. Steve King (R-Pleasantville): #Obama perverts "prosecutorial discretion" by inviting a deportable to sit in place of honor at #SOTU w/1st Lady. I should sit with Alito the salt has been coming all night. | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:33 xDaunt wrote: Eh, Joni is doing better than expected. I actually like the content and overall tact of the speech. The presentation is not particularly compelling, though. The content is weak. It's nothing but incredibly generic platitudes and bland rhetoric that have zero meaning. She sounded like a computerized voice, or maybe like she was trying too hard to be slow and comprehensible to the elderly. That said, she was still better than Rubio last year... | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:37 Stratos_speAr wrote: The content is weak. It's nothing but incredibly generic platitudes and bland rhetoric that have zero meaning. She sounded like a computerized voice, or maybe like she was trying too hard to be slow and comprehensible to the elderly. That said, she was still better than Rubio last year... She gave the response, not the state of the union address. She got like 10 minutes or so to talk. Feel free to explain what specifics can be given in that time. Her job was to present the general republican message, which she did competently. And let's not pretend that Obama's speech had any real policy specifics in it. To the extent that were any, they are all irrelevant anyway. The bottom line is that no one is going to be working on any of the potential legislation that he proposed tonight. The only possible exception is the authorization to use force against ISIS. | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:41 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Correction: There will be three Tea Party responses consisting of Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz. oh my god where can I watch these? I need the salt. Give it to me. | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:44 xDaunt wrote: She gave the response, not the state of the union address. She got like 10 minutes or so to talk. Feel free to explain what specifics can be given in that time. Her job was to present the general republican message, which she did competently. And let's not pretend that Obama's speech had any real policy specifics in it. To the extent that were any, they are all irrelevant anyway. The bottom line is that no one is going to be working on any of the potential legislation that he proposed tonight. The only possible exception is the authorization to use force against ISIS. She didn't give a response, in fact the first words out of her mouth were that she wasn't going to respond to the presidents speech. | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:46 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: She didn't give a response, in fact the first words out of her mouth were that she wasn't going to respond to the presidents speech. You are going to nit pick over this? Jesus. The important takeaway (ie not the semantics) is that she was given 10 minutes to make a speech. Period. Technically, that opportunity is called the response, though yes, she did not really address Obama's speech, which was the right move in this circumstance, | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:27 GreenHorizons wrote: Because instead of going out and pushing for why Republicans needed to keep the presidency after he was gone Republicans locked him in a cave and turned the last republican president into a delusional vision of Reagan. Obama is clearly using the SOTU to set the stage for 2016 and judging by Republicans so far they are totally blindsided and have nothing but more personal attacks, petty legislation, and fear mongering around "terrorism" prepared for the next couple years. Republicans wanting a petty pipeline that will primarily help a foreign company being compared to Obama asking for a large infrastructure bill will basically be the frame for every debate. Republicans roll in with the Earnst teleprompter jokes now right? That's a losing argument, unless you can get the lies to stick. | ||
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On January 21 2015 12:53 JonnyBNoHo wrote: That's a losing argument, unless you can get the lies to stick. Seeing how the Erst post SOTU speech was about the Pipeline... | ||
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