Official White House.gov link here.
Guardian stream & liveblogging here.
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From the Guardian: Obama breaks from the script after a litany of cheerful economic statistics to remark, “this is good news, people.” The crowd laughs.
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The President: “We need affordable, high-quality child care more than ever.”
Forget the chamber — I think we could all here the applause from people’s living rooms.
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Wild applause & loud cheers for raising the minimum wage… and especially for making Congresscritters who refuse to vote for raising the minimum wage try to live on “less than $15,000 a year”.
Republicans are sitting stony-faced through an awful lot of this – even the bits they are meant to agree with.
— Dan Roberts (@RobertsDan) January 21, 2015
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“Give me a free hand to negotiate trade deals” not getting nearly as much applause as earlier proposals. Sunshine’s a great disinfectant, President Obama! — the only ones in favor of fast-track secret deals are corporations and their enablers.
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Bipartisan applause for “reserving the right” to “take out terrorists without reserve.” So there’s that, at least.
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Commentor CCKids points out, per TPM, tonight’s “Designated Survivor” is Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx:
Because I just find it funny, just in case there’s some Tom Clancy “catastrophic event” tonight, our new President will be . . . another black guy!! Too perfect. You can just see the wingnuts cheering, then looking up to see: Anthony Foxx. “Dammit!!”
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At least the front couple rows of Repubs stood up to applaud for “It’s time to close Gitmo.” Good news!
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“I have no more campaigns to run… “ Mild applause… “I know it, because I won both of ’em.” Audience: OOOOOOOOO!!!
Even his fiercest critic would agree that the President deserved that one zinger.
dmsilev
So how many “responses” will there be, and will there be anything to distinguish between them?
Elizabelle
I would just love it if Joni Ernst’s response had pigs squealing in the background.
It’s how I always picture her. Scary woman.
dmsilev
@efgoldman: You mean you’ll pass up the opportunity to watch Joe Biden give John Boehner a wedgie live on national TV?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: I’m tempted, so I can understand some of snarkier live-tweets, but… meh. I got a meal to cook and some good music playing.
janeform
Cokie Roberts: This speech is about 2016.
No, it’s about what we should do in 2015 to improve peoples’ lives, dumbass.
Edited.
Southern Beale
I think last I hear there are two: the Official Response (Joni Ernst), and a Tea Party response (Rep.Curt Clawson).
Got me thinking, if there’s ever a Republican in the White House (God forbid) and there’s more than one liberal response, you KNOW the Republicans are going to scream and squawk and complain like stuck pigs.
Southern Beale
I really do think a big part of the conservatives’ wretched behavior these past 8 years has been all about them refusing to allow Barack Obama to have any kind of legacy. First black president, that’s all he gets. He can’t be credited with anything else, like saving the economy. They just refuse.
dmsilev
@janeform: It’s both really. The big stuff (e.g. the tax proposal) won’t go anywhere in this Congress, but it helps shape the ground over which the 2016 election will be fought.
JPL
Yeah.. but only Cole gave us puppy pictures.
Elizabelle
@Southern Beale:
It’s what comes to mind with Republicans this year.
JPL
The NY Times has the text if you want to follow the speech as he talks.
Mike E
@efgoldman: Same here. Visited daughter today and I want to keep the good feeling intact :-)
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I think they will be distinguished by the type of crazy each respondent chooses to employ.
JPL
uhoh for those who want to drink with the word I..
janeform
@dmsilev: It does, but it’s always horse race over substance with these people.
dmsilev
@Southern Beale: Don’t forget the Republican Latino response, which will be (and I swear I’m not making this up) a Hispanic Representative giving a literal Spanish translation of Ernst’s speech. Outreach!
Roger Moore
@JPL:
Bo and Sunny beg to differ.
lamh36
The white house released the speech online for anyone to read. Of course usual media embargo was in effect, but the speech was online for public before
full #SOTU2015 speech here: https://medium.com/@WhiteHouse/president-obamas-state-of-the-union-address-remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-55f9825449b2?source=tw-lo_88ec5b042d35-1421805941988 …
mdblanche
We now have threads for both the State of the Union and the SOTU.
ETA: And now we don’t.
JPL
@Roger Moore: Well not squealing pups su.c.king.
Anne Laurie
@Southern Beale:
There’s a brand-new Latino Congressman gonna give the GOP rebuttal in Spanish — but it’s just a Spanish translation of Ernst’s speech, because the GOP doesn’t trust the guy on his own, apparently.
And Rand Fox is “covering” the speech for Fox News, which is probably gonna get more GOP views than the official response.
dmsilev
They really shouldn’t have a giant flag right behind John Boehner; his late-stage orangeism has proceeded to the point where he’s starting to blend in with the stripes.
Corner Stone
I feel so violated.
Corner Stone
I wonder if he’ll go all “son of a barkeep” again this round?
JPL
Boehner is acting like a stiff ass… just sayin
Mike in NC
@Elizabelle: Joni Ernst is to pigs what Sarah Palin is to turkeys.
Corner Stone
This Bing Pulse bullshit on MSNBC is about to drive me right to, “Aww, hell naw!”
Mike in NC
@JPL: Looks totally shitfaced…eyes drooping…head moving towards desk.
Violet
Boehner looks like he’s drunk or sick with the flu or both.
Corner Stone
Mmmm…the deficit…
RedDirtGirl
@dmsilev:
Boehner always looks like he’s getting a weggie!
dmsilev
Obama: “All those predictions of doom from the GOP? Wrong, wrong, wrong”
Boehner looks like he just swallowed a toad.
jl
@Southern Beale:
” the conservatives’ wretched behavior these past 8 years ”
Probably won’t be as much, or any, overt disrespect this year. McConnell said the Congressional GOP is serious people. Have to try to act like mature adults. Whether some of the loons can maintain in the post speech interviews (which I will avoid like the plague) is another question.
mdblanche
@Mike in NC: Well, it is a day that ends with a “y.”
Helen
Yeah this is the neener neener speech. Awesome. When he said “This is good news, people” and everyone laughed it took all of Boehner’s strength not to laugh too.
jl
@dmsilev:
” Boehner looks like he just swallowed a toad. ”
Toad? What kind of cocktail is that? I never heard of it.
cckids
@Corner Stone: I love how both R’s & D’s are pretty much approving of everything, while Independents are the most disagreeable on all counts. What else is new??
TheMightyTrowel
I’m watching the white house feed and it cuts boehner off just below the nose. the weird mouth pursing he’s doing makes him look like one of those tank cleaning fish people keep.
lamh36
Boner really does have the complexion of an oompa loompa dont’ he…damn
cckids
@Helen:
Yep. “We need to aspire to more than just trying not to screw things up”. YES.
Of course, the R’s don’t like that.
Corner Stone
@cckids: I had to change to CBS. That shit was driving me nanners.
mdblanche
@jl:
And McConnell is an honourable man.
So are they all, all honourable men.
Davis X. Machina
Did he call on us to expropriate the expropriators yet?
(I was making a cup of tea…)
mdblanche
@jl: Two parts turpentine and one part methanol.
JPL
@Mike in NC: OMG>.. State of the Union and Boehner passes out… That would be great..
Roger Moore
@cckids:
Given that they’ve devoted the last few decades to screwing stuff up, it’s easy to see why.
dmsilev
@Davis X. Machina: The speech ends with a twist; all of the GOP Senators and Representatives get hauled off to the FEMA reeducation camps.
Don’t ask me how I know this.
Roger Moore
@JPL:
I’d much rather if Scalia stroked out, but I’ll take what I can get.
donnah
I love seeing Joe Biden smile.
Boehner, what a dick.
Corner Stone
“Try it!”
tazj
@cckids: Of course, they know more than us partisans.
A tax credit for each child? But Eric Cantor said he wouldn’t do that.
MomSense
Universal child care, paid sick and maternity leave, guaranteed overtime, equal pay for women–oh the Republicans are maaaaad. Steam is practically coming out of Agent Orange’s ears.
dmsilev
So, this speech is basically one long upraised middle finger at the Republicans and conservatives in general. Fun.
(and yes, I know it won’t make any real difference in terms of what legislation lurches out of Congress)
mdblanche
@Davis X. Machina: No. And nothing about my pony either.
Corner Stone
Oh no…the “skills gap”.
Here it comes round again.
cckids
@Corner Stone:
I shifted to just listening for the most part. Watching Boehner’s face is pretty funny, as is seeing all the Repubs sitting on their asses every time Pres. Obama states some idea that will help the lower/middle classes. If every Democratic consultant isn’t making notes for killer ads for next year, they are fools.
lamh36
JPL
Am I wrong, but I think “Hemingway” or the pirate or what ever he is called did good on this speech.
cckids
@Roger Moore:
Yes, keeping things f*cked seems to have been their main priority since 2008.
dmsilev
@MomSense:
The word ‘dyspeptic’ comes to mind for some reason.
jl
Here comes the free college!
Rubio was on some talky this Sunday and he called US higher education a ‘failed system’. First I ever heard that line.
The GOP is so threadbare, they just spew insults.
I was giving this speech I would still be ranting about Rubio’s BS, with a lot more slides than the WH is showing. Next hour, I might have time to cover other topics.
Mike in NC
Funny how people seated on the left half of the chamber are animated and applauding, while the folks to their right are scowling and look too constipated to move a muscle.
Corner Stone
@jl:
“Higher education” ??
What was he talking about?
Davis X. Machina
@mdblanche: You can use the pony. But you can’t own the pony. That would make you a kulak.
cckids
From Sully’s live feed: “A reader notes that Boehner’s face is darker than Obama’s”.
JPL
OMG.. Boehner isn’t even clapping about the line putting the Americans back to work.. .
Southern Beale
We were watching the SOTU on MSNBC but they have this stupid poll thingie running at the bottom that was so distracting to I just switched to network TV, but they aren’t doing a lot of crowd shots. I haven’t seen Turtle McConnell. Is he there?
Helen
OOO A Keystone dis!
jl
I like the slides with data and facts and stuff. Probably skeer the pundits into a rage, since they might as well be in Old Gothic as far as they are concerned.
Interesting to see if the slide stop the fact-checker rackets from BSing too much.
Corner Stone
No, Obama. No Trade Authority.
Sorry.
Davis X. Machina
@jl:
Parts of it are sort-of-non-profit. So it’s a failure.
donnah
Obama owns this. He is on fire. I’m applauding from my sofa!
jl
@cckids:
“A reader notes that Boehner’s face is darker than Obama’s”.
But Obama’s face does not have that warm fluorescent glow.
lamh36
Violet
@lamh36: That’s exactly what I’m seeing. Old white people scowling at everything that sounds good and helpful for the majority of Americans.
fuckwit
@Roger Moore: The visual of Scalia stroking one out is not really what I wanted to have at dinnertime.
HumboldtBlue
Astronaut guy is Mr. Magoo with some serious skills
cckids
@jl:
Boehner looks like he grew up out here in NV as one of the “downwinders”, eating nothing but Kraft Mac & Cheese.
Corner Stone
Uh-oh. Loopholes and giveaways…
Davis X. Machina
@Violet: They’re going to die some day. Some day soonish. They know it. And they’re pissed about it. The rest of us suffering helps somehow.
mai naem
I think Bone Man is drunk out of his gourd.
Violet
@Southern Beale: They showed McConnell when the President walked in the door. He’s there.
Elie
I have the teevee on in the next room and am listening to it but blogging here with you fine folks.
I am tired of this scene — of having good, decent leadership and meaningful discussion of issues be turned to a forum for immature and/or sick people to actually make things worse or make them not work. I have no idea why these sickos get to keep doing this. I just cannot fully accept that this is what Americans really want… I have no idea how to break down the wall.. no idea why they don’t want the same things, but there it is…
MomSense
@Violet:
It’s almost like the madder the old white people look, the more tickled the President gets. He has a wicked, mischievous look tonight.
Mike in NC
@Violet: Old white people like having their Medicare and Social Security benefits.
God forbid Big Gummint tries to mess with that stuff.
Davis X. Machina
@Elie:
Just shy of a majority of Americans who actually turn up at the polls in non-Presidential years really want this. The rest of us, not so much…
jl
@Corner Stone:
‘ “Higher education” ??
What was he talking about? ‘
Rubio had to bash Obama’s free community college proposal, so that was his line. Jackass. Rubio sat there and lied. He said Obama was not paying attention to practical stuff like technical education and retraining, but pursuing an old ’20 century’ policy of churning out a bunch o’ then dayam academic egghead AA degrees.
Actually, too much emphasis on AA degrees has been a weakness of the Obama community college policy, but Obama specifically said that was not the main purpose of the proposal, technical education and adult retraining was just as important.
Ol’ Schieff, US corporate media reporter hack, just sat there and let Rubio spout endlessly, what he does whenever a GOPer is on his show.
MomSense
@Elie:
I feel the same way.
Suzanne
Dude. This speech is making me, uh…..well, I may need a cigarette here shortly.
I love watching Republicans be sourpusses.
mai naem
Orrin Hatch looks mad about the taxes on rich folks. I guess he trying to save money for his pal Mittens and the inheritance of Tagg, Lagg, Ragg, Bick and Tick.
cckids
Because I just find it funny, just in case there’s some Tom Clancy “catastrophic event” tonight, our new President will be . . . .
another black guy!! Too perfect. You can just see the wingnuts cheering, then looking up to see: Anthony Foxx. “Dammit!!”
Violet
@MomSense: He certainly does. He’s having a lot of fun with this speech.
Botsplainer
Watching the Fox feed. Saw Orrin Hatch look like he squeezed out a dookie when Barry Obummer talked about bipartisanship.
Corner Stone
@Suzanne: It hasn’t actually been all that “gotcha” so far.
But, please proceed.
muddy
@jl: Bobo was against them today, it was pointless to give free tuition when these poor people had all these other problems that were not being addressed so they would suck at school anyway.
Mike in NC
Talking about killing terrorists finally gets the fucking Republicans to get off their fat asses. Hoping for a declaration of war against Iran?
Corner Stone
This has been a really tame SoTU so far. That’s just true.
Helen
CUBA – Awwwwwwwww Rubio haz a sad!!!!
JPL
At this point, Boehner is just thinking about that bottle in his office.
Corner Stone
Pope namecheck!!
mdblanche
And now Obama is badmouthing the GOP’s man-crush Putin.
Pamela
@MomSense:
I just had to chime in, as I was thinking almost this very thing today as I drove home from work.
cckids
I love the joint dig at Russia/Putin & the Repubs who loved him sooooo much last summer.
Jackasses, all of them.
Iowa Old Lady
The subtext seems to be “I’m still president and you’re not, so suck it up.” I like that.
Suzanne
@Helen: Muahahahaha, how much did I enjoy watching that little prick sit and sulk?!
A: A lot.
Corner Stone
Uh-oh…Iran….
HumboldtBlue
@Mike in NC: And then shut them up by tossing Putin back in their “blustery” faces. Twitchy just died from apoplexy.
Corner Stone
Veto that shit, baby!
mdblanche
@Corner Stone: Dem applause for the veto threat but no standing ovation…
Suzanne
The thought of Obama’s great big ,black, throbbing veto pen makes them feel all conflicted inside.
Corner Stone
@mdblanche: Fuck Menandez. Asshole.
mdblanche
Say, remember that Ebola thing?
jl
@Corner Stone: The Obama discipline equanimity on display.
Me, I would still be going down my list of Congresscritters I was calling out by name, and dressing down, some in good humor and some not. But that is why I would suck in politics
“Hey, Mitch, I read in the paper you are stopping the latest nutcase GOP House plot to steal the Social Security money. I guess you are telling the truth, you will be Serious People this session. Ha ha ha!!! I’m sure you’ll want me to tell the country about that garbage. So, anyway, the latest BS plot the GOP hatched to steal your social security money was a real laugher, let me tell you…”
Corner Stone
WHAT?! Climate Change!!?
Corner Stone
This dude is completely off his fucking nut!
Schlemazel
Do I even need to say the next sentence?
mai naem
I don’t know what the big deal about community college is. I haven’t taken a community college class in several years and I decided to take a special interest one a couple of years ago just for myself. I was a little shocked when I went to pay for it because it was around $350. i was expecting it to be $120-$180. I know several people who go to community college strictly because it’s cheaper than university and you can for the most part knock out your first two years of university at community college.
Violet
Don’t think Biden has been as much fun to watch during this SOTU as he has in previous years.
mdblanche
“Well, I’m not a scientist either but I know some really good ones.”
jl
@muddy: They wouldn’t be like Brooks, a brilliant student, or might have been if he had not decided to kick back and just use the educational credentials to get an easy career ticket punched halfway through.
What a contemptible hypocrite.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: Can’t be, it’s cold out.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mdblanche: No shit? He said that?
Corner Stone
Drones, anti-semitism, peace, free speech…what?
mdblanche
Why didn’t the cranky white and/or orange guys applaud the mention of the Pentagon and climate change? Why don’t they support the troops? Do they hate America?
Suzanne
Dude. Dude just said “transgender” at the SOTU. First time?
cckids
@Schlemazel: Yeah, no. Sadly, even tragically. Too “divisive”.
mai naem
@Suzanne: That big fat black pen is just getting ready to screw the GOP’s plans.
donnah
Gitmo! Shut it down!
Helen
The “agree’ “disagree” at the bottom of MSNBC’s screen is fascinating. The Republican “agree” has been in the high 80’s, low 90’s. I went to Fox and they don’t have one, but they always do. I wanted to see what Fox viewers were saying. Did they take it down?
Corner Stone
@BillinGlendaleCA: If it’s cold in Glendale, CA then we should re-evaluate.
Peale
@mdblanche: they’ve moved on to al-sisi anyway. He knows how to treat radical Muslims and represents the march of freedom.
mdblanche
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yep.
JPL
oh my goodness… Climate Change and Gitmo.. Boehner might need two bottles in that office of his.
jl
I wonder how all the facts and figure slides will go over. Accused of being superior? Unfair? Divisive?
Anyone else see them, or probably this is a WH video stream thing?
But, I can hear it now: “Fact and figures slides, worse than the Gore Sigh, or much worse, or worstest worst misfire in political history?”
Davis X. Machina
@donnah: He doesn’t mean it, though. You can tell.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: It’s below 60, that’s cold.
dedc79
You can tell a lot about the problems our country is facing just by seeing some of the lines Republicans don’t feel any need to applaud
Corner Stone
“Of which there are many…”
BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: I’m sure he’s got more than one in his office.
Mike in NC
Republicans in every state are still talking about a crazy amendment to the U.S. Constitution to make marriage only something between a man and a woman. A very 18th century viewpoint.
Beatrice
Why is the Guardian live blog so relentlessly negative?
mdblanche
Barrack Obama, still crazy after all these years.
Corner Stone
The Notorious RBG looks like she may be dying on the floor there.
Anne Laurie
@jl:
The slides & graphs were up last year, too, so it’s a little late to object to their existence. The content, however, is bound to be Twitchy-picked endlessly.
mdblanche
@Beatrice: Same reason a scorpion stings.
Corner Stone
Basic decency….
Violet
Good lord, how drunk or sick with flu is Boehner. He looks like he can hardly keep his head up.
jl
@Anne Laurie: Thanks. I guess I didn’t watch the WH stream last year. I guess no one cared much, then. I never heard anything about them.
Corner Stone
He has completely lost the plot here.
Anne Laurie
@Corner Stone: To be honest, I’d probably fall asleep if I were sitting in that room with my hands folded.
We haven’t had to put up a second liveblogging post yet, so yeah I guess this qualifies as a “tame” SotU. From all their hard work in advance, I suspect the White House would say Tame Is Good!
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone:
Basic decency …. escapes those in charge of Congress this session.
This has been a terrific speech.
It’s heartbreaking to think of the opposition its action items face.
Suzanne
John Boehner can’t decide if he should or shouldn’t applaud lower rates of teen pregnancy.
TR
@Southern Beale:
Same here. God, that was annoying. Nice move, MSNBC.
Corner Stone
Good Lordt. I want whatever drugs he took before this speech.
mdblanche
“Surely we can agree the right to vote is sacred.”
The crowd shot says otherwise.
dmsilev
@Violet: A bad case of gas, maybe?
Mike in NC
@JPL: Keeps a flask of Johnnie Walker Blue (provided by lobbyists) tucked inside his suit jacket pocket.
Corner Stone
BURN!!!
TR
@MomSense:
The little wink and “hey, that’s a good thing!” he shot at the GOP when he was discussing the economic news was amazing.
Zinsky
I gotta hand it to Obama – he is an eternal optimist. I think it’s naive and foolish, given the ignorant nihilists on the other side of the aisle – but the man is an eternal optimist.
Suzanne
I KNEW IT. This was the first time “transgender” was said in a SOTU. “Bisexual”, too.
TaMara (BHF)
Bastards.
Burn. “I know because I won both of them” you total fucking losers who should burn in hell (subtext)
mdblanche
“I have no more campaigns to run… I know because I won both of them.”
Comrade Mary
He has no more campaigns to run “I know because I won both of ’em”. Heh.
Suzanne
I know, because I won both of ’em.
BUUUURN.
Love it. Just love it.
JPL
@mdblanche: Yup.. Even Boehner seemed depressed about that.
What a great speech.. .
MomSense
“I know cuz I won both of them”
HA!!
We woke the dog we all cheered so loudly.
dmsilev
“I have no more campaigns to run….
…because I won both of them”
Somewhere, Mitt Romney sheds a single tear and then orders the staff to press the down button on the car elevator.
Mike in NC
“I won both of them”. I’m pouring another drink.
HumboldtBlue
@MomSense: Scoreboard
Helen
@Elie:
Yeah but you know what? I talk here all the time about leaving America. Obama at his best – this speech – makes me want to stay. Imagine if all our leaders were like him?
And yup – he just told them “Yeah I won both of ’em”
Jeebus I love him.
MomSense
@Suzanne:
You got there first!! I need a cigarette after that.
cckids
LOVE the comeback by the President “I don’t have another campaign to run”. Republicans sarcastically applaud & cheer, so PBO says “I know, because I won both of them”.
BOOM
They just CANNOT stop being dicks.
ETA: Jesus, you people are fast.
Deecarda
“I won both of them” love that he went for the snark.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I lasted 5 minutes on MSNBC. Wtf! ‘I know. I won both of them.’ Awesome.
Violet
I really love it when Uncle Joe smiles. That crazy gleam in his eye.
Suzanne
@MomSense: I may have a….ahem…..carnal reaction to watching this POTUS put the smack down.
TR
@mdblanche:
God, that was fucking amazing. Especially the close-up on McCain (at least on CNN) as he said it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@TR: That’s just what I thought of, the old fool is probably choking on his own bile reflux right now
jl
Good speech. Obama has a spring in his step these days. I like it.
JPL
@cckids: Gotta admit though, the Fox crowd will be disappointed he didn’t say Islamic terrorist.
Zinsky
A stunning speech, but the cynicism on the right can’t be wilted by words alone. They are the damned – you have to pound a stake through their heart to be through with them…
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@MomSense:
I listened to a chunk of it in the car on my way home and was unable to stop myself from saying, “Oooh, BURN!” at one point. So it’s coming across even without pictures that he’s really enjoying a chance to tweak them to their faces.
Suzanne
@Zinsky: Where do I sign up?
lamh36
The GOP thought they were gonna be cute and applaude at the line about him not running again…and then he dropped THE BOOM!
Elizabelle
Got C-Span on now. Had NBC on for a while, but when Brian Williams threw it to Chuck Todd, who said that Obama has one more SOTU after this one, but who’s going to listen to next year’s because ….
click by my friend the remote
Corner Stone
This didn’t do too much.
slag
Pleased that whitehouse.gov is continuing with a post-SOTU chat rather than abandoning the floor to Republicans altogether.
mdblanche
Just checked the advance text. “I know because I won both of them” wasn’t in it.
JPL
@lamh36: I loved that and the applause was overwhelming.
Elizabelle
Not looking forward to the Official GOP response.
Joni Ernst has enough hair and teeth to be a Kennedy, but the black ugly heart of Antonin Scalia.
Corner Stone
@Elizabelle: She spooks me right the fuck out.
Elizabelle
@mdblanche:
Love it.
PBO knew what was sitting out in the audience.
Anne Laurie
New thread up top, if you want to keep discussing, or make fun of the myriad GOP responses, or whatever.
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone:
Me too.
And we aren’t even uncastrated pigs.
Helen
Fox has their mother-fucking feelings hurt! BWA HA HA
Suzanne
Oh, STFU, Sippy Cupp.
Hal
@mai naem: One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was not going to community college after I became a CA resident when I moved to San Francisco way back in 1996. I kept putting it off for another years (for many years). Back in 1997, tuition was something like 12 dollars a credit. Books cost more than the tuition.
Davis X. Machina
Why does he have to be so partisan? This will break Ron Fournier’s heart.
slag
Dan Pfeiffer on whitehouse.gov: “Americans actually getting a pay cut every year,” due to cost of living increases. Yup.
Elizabelle
@Helen: dissed by the president of a black planet and sued by the mayor of Paris.
ira-NY
Good speech. I think tone is the most important thing in SOU addresses. His tone was near perfect.
Mike in NC
Fuck Chuck Turd and his ever-receding hairline.
Elizabelle
Woman calling in on C-Span Republican line just said she didn’t like GOP not applauding for equal pay.
Host: And you’re a Republican, right?
TR
@Corner Stone:
And I never want whatever drugs you’re on. Bitchitall, is it?
Jesus Christ, it’s like Eeyore found a megaphone.
Elie
He is just as smooth, honest and special as ever. I doubt we will see his like again in my remaining lifetime. That is partially why they hate him so…
But as was said upstring, pretty words don’t change things by themselves. They do, however, inspire. Who knows what events will be inspired by words either tonight or all the many many times this leader has worked to bring this nation along. I believe in that magic. I think it actually did help him get things done in my opinion….
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Violet:
He didn’t get the flu shot because FREEDOM!
mai naem
This is the woman who replaced Tom Harkin? Her cadence is horrible. There’s this whine/hum under her voice. Really really annoying.
danielx
@dmsilev:
At a guess, some variation in the volume of frothing at the mouth among the three speakers.
Corner Stone
@TR: Come on, jerky.
Nanjosf
@Mike in NC:
omg that is so true!
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@mai naem:
A little late, but CC is significantly cheaper. My kid will be starting nursing school in the fall. $5k per year v $12k at the public university (MN)