it’s a sputniked?
some how it seams apt.

and keep coming up in the 50s & 60s, whether it is this sputnik crap or the racism crap they cannot seem to move forward and or “lean” forward. They are stuck in the past, using the same old tired language and hateful tricks that worked for a generation but due to the internet and FOX no longer work. It is really scary that they haven’t mentally moved beyond their “glory” days and what I consider to be the beginning of the fall of a great Nation. It will be Conservatives who will lead into the future and it becomes more apparent every time these idiots on the left open their mouths.

that it wasn’t worth wasting time listening to his speech. I just didn’t realize how MUCH of a waste of time it was.

I’ve never thought of The Big 0 as being like the French, but your post shows that he is. Within my memory, the French have developed a knack for laying out certain problems logically and succinctly so that they point to a workable solution, and then coming up with something completely unrelated to that actual solution. There is a certain sense in which this is a Sputnik moment. If by that you mean a time when certain factual events have occurred which have shaken our beliefs in something we’ve always considered an essential American characteristic and we need to pick ourselves up off the ground, put our shoulders into it, and fix the problem.

For Sputnik it was belief in American ingenuity and technical prowess. For us, it is American ability to create good paying jobs and eliminate the deficit. If The Big 0 had correctly identified the cause of these problems, he could have proposed real solutions to those problems. But I understand why he was incapable of identifying the problem and proposing a solution: He and his party are the largest source of the problem. Although some Republicans have been more than willing to sell them the rope, lumber, and nails to build the platform from which they intend to have us hanged.

I do look forward to reading Ryan and Bachmann’s responses to his speech. The one hopeful event in this our time of darkness has been the Tea Party movement. They have the answers. If Bachmann and Ryan follow their lead we may finally get solutions that move us forward, and I am hopeful that they did so in their responses.

…until someone in the private sector came along and said, “You know, that technology might be really useful to me.”

GPS and the Internet did not need to be kept alive with constant infusions of government cash, with no end in sight. They were scalable and a vast improvement over competing technologies. And the U.S. took the lead.

Wind and solar, on the other hand, are not particularly scalable, they suffer in any competition with conventional fuels, and they would make us dependent on China.

Other than that, a perfect analogy.

Economic campaigns do go astray and with horrific consequences and in consideration with having China involved with this experiment, this should be called the “Great Leap Forward.”

If you do not understand how horrific the “Great Leap Forward” was then you should do some research, this is an extremely dangerous experiment.

The “Great Leap Forward” in my consideration is more fitting then “Sputnik Moment”

More like SkyLab Re-Entry moment.
I have been around for well over 50 SOTU Addresses, and this one was beyond doubt one of the worse ones.

Where’s The Beef?
This speech was nothing but a mishmash of disjointed sound bites, with appropriate spacing for applause moments. I for one am grateful it was not the “Jack ‘N The Box” idiocy that was his previous one. No substance!

As to Solar and Wind? Pie in the sky, they are not now, and never will be a viable sources for large scale energy needs.
It takes more energy and resources to produce and maintain the equipment than they will ever deliver.
Not to mention that the materials used in their construction are of a super finite nature, there simply is not enough of these rare earth elements available on the planet to even cover the construction of a 10th of the energy sources needed.

Solar shingles? Sorry folks never gonna happen, your roof will cost more than 2 entire conventional houses, and it would never meet the current NEC codes for wiring and the NFPA Codes for fire prevention.

If they really want to make a stab at alternative energy sources, they better quit piffling away money implementing current non functional technology, and spend it on R&D to find something that will work.

Watching its vacuous gabbling has – almost – become something of the theater of the absurd. If only it & its minions could be removed from any position where their words & actions could affect the rest of us, it would be hilarious (albeit with an element of cruelty) to laugh heartily as they flounder about, fruitlessly attempting to be meaningful in the real world.

no oil
electric cars
solar panels for every home
no fossil fuels
no money via terrorists via oil or the Canadians because our economy will be green thanks to government investment
healthcare for all and simplified tax code, (-maybe the tax code will be fulfilled)
LOL dude
and cars that get over 35mph on ethanol in flex fuel engines

Probably the best review is here. I can’t sum it up any better than this;

He says that the government cannot pick the industries of the future — moments before explaining how it is going to create jobs in renewable energy. His proposal to improve the nation’s infrastructure centers on the faddish boondoggle of high-speed rail, which is wholly unsuitable for a country with our population density. He favors increased subsidies for higher education that are more likely to increase college tuitions than to prepare our work force for the challenges of tomorrow. His plan for Social Security must consist entirely of tax increases, since he has ruled out every other expedient. He is unwilling to rethink a health-care plan that is likely to add to the country’s economic burdens: increasing insurance premiums, reducing wages, raising taxes, and adding to the national debt. Obama’s economic strategy is a high-speed train to nowhere.

By the way, Mr. Ryan’s response was probably the best I have ever heard. Lucid, realistic, firm and promising.

Ever since I heard FOX news discussing the early release of the transcript, I had similar thinking. I am thankful for Mr. Erickson pointing it out. But I would take it a step further: only a tried and true Marxist with collectivism coursing through his veins would reference the pinnacle of Soviet technological power as an inspiration for our country. I would hazard to say that a truly ‘American’ President would reference Kennedy’s launch of our space program, bur wouldn’t call it ‘our Sputnik moment’. That was an achievement celebrated in the communist USSR.

I guess when Frank Marshall Davis was tutoring a young Obama, an impressionable boy was filled with a wondrous vision of Soviet glory. When he gazed at the stars of a Pacific night sky, he dreamed wistfully of twinkling Russian space satellites streaking across the heavens, and thought to himself “maybe one day, WE can be like the Soviets”.

Well not if we have anything to say about it. I say let’s put this show of bi-partisan civility behind us, ramp up the Darryl Issa hearings, and root out this socialism once and for all.

Hey Mr. President – the USSR lost the war! The USA is, as the only positive point you made, still #1. You now call for lower corporate tax rates… what part of 0 don’t you understand? And the tax code… flatten it! Loop holes and Pork taken away… why Mr. President I think you’ve come to the table… Have a cup of tea, sir? Way to go Ryan and Bachmann!

O, and I can’t believe David came to Erick’s aid regarding Bachmann’s response… wow, who would have thought! Sure surprised the other panelist. Kudos to CNN.

Gee, I’m so sorry I missed it. OK, I fibbed a little there. Did anyone besides the MSM, political analysts/writers and politicians pay any real attention?

Leave it to Obama to cite the Soviets. The space shuttle flies its last mission this year as NASA shifts to Muslim outreach. Call this a Sputternik moment.

nt

that chooses the winners and losers.
Promoted taxes and spending at record levels which produced $3.1 Trillion in public debt and near record unemployment in just two years.
Called for new investment government spending for green energy boondoggles, failed government schools and the burgeoning federal bureaucracy.
Conflated illegal aliens with legal immigrants.
Protected the expansion of government power and regulation.
Played the class warfare card, demanding tax increases for the rich.
Decried the limitations of our democratic society.
Defended his dangerous policies of unilateral disarmament and cut-and-run, while ignoring the powder keg building throughout the Middle East.
And, the list goes on…

Alinsky would be proud. President Obama’s entire address defended and promoted Progressive/Liberal government expansion, couched in conservative language.

nt

In October 1957 when sputnik was launched, it was an “OH SHIT” moment for the United States. The entire country was immediately and frighteningly aware that the Soviets had a superiority in missile technology, and could now probably lob nuclear warheads at us.

If we are having a ‘Sputnik’ moment again, wouldn’t that imply that the administration has just had a revelation about just what they have caused , in the last two years, and that POTUS has no clue in the world on how to get out of the mess?
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.–Marcus Aurelius, 14th Roman Emperor

When 1/2 the nation thinks he is the messiah with his “new” old ideas? Who is John Galt? And how do we get him to return? I’m terrified of this group of commies and the Republicans who seem to want to compromise like Chamberain did with Hitler. We have to go to the mattresses and expose this clothesless and clueless emperor. Dear God, please, bless America again, and we won’t blow it again.

Alexander Grahm Bell = the Bell monpoly
Edison = GE and utility monopolies
Steve Jobs = Apple stayed afloat early on due to educational purchases

And both Gates and Ford made a mint (but didn’t directly rely on) government through various contracts.

So while none of these inventors needed government to create their innovations, they all relied on government to ensure their innovations succeeded.

Perhaps The One should read up on the Evergreen disaster, which is costing us Massachusetts taxpayers at least 58 million dollars.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110123/OPINION/101230332/-1/NEWS01

from a person who has no real world experience. Obama along with to many of our representatives have been politicians from day one. They have never run a business and in most cases believe that government always knows best. Give me a person who has run a successful mom and pop business for twenty years as my congressman rather than a lawyer whose goal was” government service.”

http://www.vadistrict5.com/2011/01/obama-fit-for-ambassadorship-but-not.html

To just build a fence at the border is to hard for the government to do.

We need to follow the left (backs) and constantly expose their language and actions for what they are, socicalistic hogwash. The more they are exposed in the conservative media, the better conservatism will survive and flourish. Yes, the voting public is more fully educated about socialism(communist or nazi) and will show this when they vote or participate in polls. Time is not on our side though, and we’ve got to get a candidate that will really do a job on the agendas of the left, i.e., to reverse as much of the damage they are doing to us.

We need to follow the left (backs) and constantly expose their language and actions for what they are, socialistic hogwash. The more they are exposed in the conservative media, the better conservatism will survive and flourish. Yes, the voting public is more fully educated about socialism(communist or nazi) and will show this when they vote or participate in polls. Time is not on our side though, and we’ve got to get a candidate that will really do a job on the agendas of the left, i.e., to reverse as much of the damage they are doing to us as physically possible.

that are much greater than the Sputnik moment. I think it is very reveling that Hussein Obama chose a communist object to form an analogy. Why not the JFK moment of us going to the moon? Why not when the Berlin Wall fell or our resolve to win WWII. Obama can talk all he wants but the fact remains that no matter what either Party does we don’t have the Manufacturing jobs now that we have had in the past to pull us out of a recession. the Bread and Butter Brick and Mortar jobs have always been our salvation. those jobs have been the ones that prompt the High Tech jobs to be created. There has to be a lot more than just a lame Sputnik moment.

But then since him jumping the shark would mean either him converting to Reagan Republicanism or being impeached for insanity would that be such a bad thing?

The space program was perhaps a necessary effort, due to the time pressure. But it resulted in a huge bureacracy that continues to exist and to try to justify itself, while the Moon is once again out of our reach. It is telling that Obama looked to the Sputnik era to justify his vision of Big Government riding to the rescue. But in fact, that effort was clumsy and ultimately unsustainable. How much better we had developed a space enterprise in that time, with sustainable economic rewards resulting from a more permanent (and less exclusive) presence in space?

The problem of government economic intervention goes back long before the 50s, and the solution must go deeper than simply replacing this incompetent ideologue. Much of the Obama administration’s ability to wreck such havoc, either naively or deliberately, comes from a constitutional jurisprudence which has allowed the national government to expand far beyond its proper constitutional bounds. We can only hope to be free of this or future administrations of its ilk when we restore the original limits on the national government. I suggest that this can be done by amendments restating those original constitutional understandings. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.

to going to Mars?