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#SOTU Recap: SSDD (Or, Something Sounded Familiar)

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 25th, 2012 at 07:15 AM  | 

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Listening to Barack Obama’s State of the Union Speech last night was like listening to just about every one of his SOTU speeches…

Actually, with the exception of Obama’s promise to sign a law making Congressional insider trading illegal [Martha Stewart may have some resort recommendations for Nancy Pelosi], listening to Obama’s SOTU speech really was listening to his other speeches, as this RNC video points out.



Oddly enough, there is no writers’ strike going on, so the lack of originality is both baffling and amusing at the same time.

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  • babykaboomer

    was extremely well written: Concise, persuasive and illuminating. The best writers are always Republican! More important, Daniels’ delivery struck the perfect tone. He managed to underscore the extremely dangerous nature of Obama’s “stewardship” while cogently presenting a conservative alternative; all done without giving quarter, but also without a snarling dog delivery. White glove strangulation.

    Why can’t this guy get back into the race?

  • Ausonius

    Recall that his family vetoed any attempt: here is a story summarizing their concerns:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55459.html

    Family came first for him, and he has been criticized for that. One commentator mentioned that Mary Lincoln did not stop Abe from campaigning, and opined that even if she had tried to stop him, he would have ignored her.

    The 1850′s were different times culturally, however. :)

  • gator_hoo

    Trucey McTrucerston has less commitment to conservative social values than Romney.

  • http://www.political-woman.com politicalwoman

    asked him not to. He really wanted to run, and put together a network to run, but his wife, I believe, was the primary reason. He made the public comment that he was throwing the ball into her court as to whether he’d run. No, I’m not being snarky. She had a very difficult time with the public spotlight because of her past actions, and probably worried about the resultant media attention if he ran. Common knowledge that she left him and the children for another man, then later divorced that man and remarried Daniels.

  • NeoKong

    I bet that side by side comparison could have lasted for ten minutes or more.
    How many dusty old phrases and templates were we expecting to hear again…?
    “Tax cuts for the rich”
    “Fair share”
    “Hard work and sacrifice”
    “Some would say”
    “Hard working teachers”
    “Those who would propose that we do nothing”
    “Richest one percent” and etc.

    It was all empty rhetoric.
    It basically sounded like him just saying ” If you guys get out there and fix everything I’m willing to sign on to it and take credit”.

    Lofty talk is not a plan.

  • In The Hook

    We could have had him, maybe, but surely we could have had Pawlenty had we not tossed him to the side for not wanting to be the first target for Romney’s machine.

    This is the tone we need to strike folks. Serious. Sober. Direct. Realistic about our challenges but with a tone of optimism that we can take on this obstacle as we’ve taken on so many in the past.

  • In The Hook

    And we completely abandon a guy’s record. His point was that we should focus on financial issues because they are A) extremely pressing and B) appealing to a huge swath of voters.

    The guy has signed off on de-funding of Planned Parenthood in his state and pushing for a right to work bill. He’s not a culture warrior but I daresay he more than checks the boxes on social issues. He just understands that a Santorum-style culture warfare message is not a winner.

  • jaykali

    I suppose these things are generic anyway most of the time unless you are ab to invade Iraq. I see how you might like to get inspired if the prez is ‘your guy’, but if not its a complete time waste. And the tingling feeling ppl got ab the prez when he speaks went away a long time ago. I know most of us feel like this is david v goliath for 2012 and it probably is but he is NOT 2008 Obama, those are 2 completely different humans. He is a bad sequel to an overhyped original.

  • dkbtwo

    Politicalwoman’s post highlights a hidden problem in our process for picking the leader of the free world today (in fact probably for anyone who might consider going to Washington to “serve” the people).

    As our current crop of candidates has shown, there are NO perfect people. And anyone who “might” be tempted to run for the office, even if their conservative creds are spotless would have to stop and think thrice about what they are walking into. For not only do THEY have to be nearly pure as the wind driven snow…their spouse, children, pets, cousins, and cousins pets had better be also. If not they know that the process which we call “vetting”, but more closely resembles an alien rectal examination (by an alien with 100 appendages) will find the juicy bits. I was never on board the Daniels train, but by all accounts he would have made a fine candidate, and I certainly have more respect for him for honoring his families wishes not to be turned over to the alien horde.

    Come to think of it…when we realize that anyone seriously contemplating a run for POTUS KNOWS the alien probing awaits them…and yet they STILL do it…well…lets just say it makes you wonder about their mental state to begin with, and to paraphrase Douglas Adams in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Anyone who desires the office of the president, should be automatically disqualified on mental grounds”

    Seriously…and I confess I don’t have the solution. Until something is done to adequately vet a candidate (very much needed) but STOP the alien probing…most truly “good” candidates will NEVER run.

  • skorrent1

    To his bobble-headed reading from TOTUS. It took him 4 years, but he seems to have gotten a bit smoother in his delivery. He didn’t pause in the middle of a sentence… in the middle of a phrase… quite so often to switch from the right TP to the left. And there was a little less of the snooty, arrogant, looking-down-the-nose posture. Shucks, if we give him another four years he might become a model orator.
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    Nah!

  • Ausonius

    They ignore or pooh-pooh – thanks to the leftist media – the crimes of their own people.

    As soon as the Lewinsky scandal broke, we were instantly inundated with “it doesn’t matter, it’s just sex, it doesn’t MEAN anything, move along, no story here.”

    Ask Herman Cain about that idea!

    This quest if not mania for perfection is a demand of us from the Left, and so why do we accomodate them?