State of the Union

Obama will leave us ten trillion more in debt.

How will he explain this tonight?

He lost the house and the senate during his second term.

America does not approve.

I don't think he will frame it in the way you would like. And about half of America approves of his presidency.

He's lost 11 governor seats and both the house and senate.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I don't think he will frame it in the way you would like. And about half of America approves of his presidency.

47%...yeah, that's about half.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

The speech definitely will not be as good as the Alabama-Clemson game last night!

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Obama will leave us ten trillion more in debt.

How will he explain this tonight?

He lost the house and the senate during his second term.

America does not approve.

Probably around the lines of. "I'm Rich , and I did it by FUDGING all of you up the bung hole. Thanks a Lot for being STUPID"

Or some such.

Originally posted by dadudemon
47%...yeah, that's about half.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

Pretty standard stuff.

That was a pretty great SotU.

Pretty solid, normal stuff. Calls for tolerance, general posivity, etc..

I bet a lot of conservatives are disappointed he didn't take the opportunity to declare himself Emperor for Life like they're sure he would 😉

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Obama will leave us ten trillion more in debt.

How will he explain this tonight?

TL;DR: Those who complain about the debt don't know how the economy works.

Full:

Well, gigantic economic collapse raised debt for pretty much everyone, and everyone who did austerity ended up in debt and didn't have their unemployment cut in half like we did.

In debt-as-percentage-of-GDP terms, this, btw, is notably below the record high for the US. How it was handled then was.... ignore it, let the economy outgrow it, and continuing to spend on the country's infrastructure, which they did to great success.

Debt this size is not that big a concern to a country our size, certainly not an immediate concern.

It's also a sign how things have improved- people used to attack employment or GDP. Both of those have gotten a lot better, so now they need to fall on debt- one of the tools used to fix the two prior, higher priority ones.

Do I take it from your complaints that you'd rather have higher unemployment and lower GDP than high debt?

Though no matter what, the debt would've gone up, as attempts to cut debt during a crisis show, as lowering spending lowers GDP and revenue and ends up costing more in revenue than the amount saved by spending cuts.... history has shown that, and not just history, but the actions of many countries in the last few years.

Pelosi staring at her watch, Biden napping/facepalm or the Joint Chiefs not acknowledging the potus

Which was your favorite part?

Originally posted by Q99
Pretty solid, normal stuff. Calls for tolerance, general posivity, etc..

I bet a lot of conservatives are disappointed he didn't take the opportunity to declare himself Emperor for Life like they're sure he would 😉

He still has a year.

Originally posted by |King Joker|
That was a pretty great SotU.

It was a good speech, he didn't ramble on manliness rhetoric.

Well see how the rest of the year goes.

But he did ramble on with Marxist rhetoric.

I doubt your intelligent enough to recognize Marxist rhetoric when you see it.

Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]He still has a year. [/B]

It's disappointing that despite the fact he never ends up evil like they say, we'll never get a proper, "Nooo, he wasn't planning on becoming immortal god king after all!"

He just never managed to get the peoples guns away quickly enough. He musta known that if he tried anything all the patriots woulda risen up for freedom!

Originally posted by Tzeentch
I doubt your intelligent enough to recognize Marxist rhetoric when you see it.

figure. of. speech.

Anyhow, was a decent speech overall, didn't catch all of it though.

He went back to his "ISIS is no threat"

Crap.

Originally posted by Nephthys
He just never managed to get the peoples guns away quickly enough. He musta known that if he tried anything all the patriots woulda risen up for freedom!

I thought that was what happened under Bill Clinton? 😉

I find the Emperor Obama narrative funny.

1- Obama does a lot early in his term.

2- Obstructionism takes over, he gets called useless and do-nothing.

3- The opponents try using authority they don't remotely have to stop what Obama already did.

4- The stuff done in the beginning bears fruit, while Obama does small stuff using long-used-by-every-president-authority that's much smaller than his early actions.

5- Opponents call him an Emperor exceeding his authority.