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Obama Speech Tag

State of the Union speeches regularly infuriate the opposing party, and to that extent Barack Obama met and exceeded expectations last night.One aspect of the speech deservedly is receiving most attention: The crude attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court in front of the Congress and...

I'll leave it to others to do the fact check. Here's my first impression of the State of the Union speech tonight:This was a small speech. A lot of petty pot shots, including at the Supreme Court. Very Nixonian, in that regard.The verbiage was anything...

There still is time to input new text into the teleprompter for tonight's State of the Union address.After throwing the Venezuelan people under the bus at the Summit of the Americas last April, now would be a good time for Barack Obama to give the...

The transparency President is now the President who feels your pain.According to the NY Times, in the State of the Union address Obama will unveil some highly targeted tax credits aimed at families, and some caps on student loan repayments: By focusing on what one...

Via Jammie Wearing Fool, Obama Needs TelePrompter to Talk to Schoolkids:No matter what I have said in the past, I want this to be a bad PhotoShop. Honestly. Update 1-26-1020: It's kinda so, but not completely. Read the comments.--------------------------------------------Related Posts:Please Tell Me This Is Not...

A lot of people have been playing Waterloo in the wake of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. That's history.Here's the future. An exclusive preview of Obama's upcoming State of the Union address this Wednesday (btw, we'll be "live" again): Where are those happy days,...

Because it's not the hand of one of those truck-driving Fenway Park fans: (Image via NY Times) -------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter and Facebook ...

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HotAir via Politico is reporting that the Obama administration has learned that there is sufficient resistence in the House to the Senate plan that the push to pass final legislation, after conference, will be delayed until after Obama's January State of the Union address.I'd like...

For our country, and yes, our President.That's the feeling I had watching Obama's climate speech in Copenhagen, and the whole theater of the bizarre surrounding it.Read into "sad and embarrassed" what you want.No other brilliant thoughts this afternoon. Not for lack of trying.Except, "pathetic."And, too...

Just do as he says, or you must want to kill the world: “The time for talk is over, this is the bottom line: We can embrace this accord, take a substantial step forward. We can do that and everyone who is in this room...

Kathleen Parker, one of many swooning over Obama's Oslo speech, observes:Rising to the occasion, he managed to redeem himself at a low point in his popularity by reminding Americans of what is best about themselves. My cynical translation:Obama's drop in the polls has forced him...

The Speech. In Oslo. Oh my. He didn't apologize, as such. He spoke of a "just war." Of his obligation as President to defend the country. As if this all were a revelation.Ooooh. Aaaah. Says the vast right-wing conspiracy, in many and surprising places.It's all...

Some more thoughts on the Obama Afghanistan speech, the morning after.I understood why Obama wanted to go to West Point to give the speech. It would show that he had the courage to give the speech directly to soldiers whose lives would be on the...

"A camel is a horse designed by a committee." That's the feeling I had listening to Obama's speech tonight about his military designs for Afghanistan.The speech followed pre-speech reports of Obama's plan. There were no substantive surprises, but Obama seemed truly moved by the decision...

Ezra Klein posts The $900 billion mistake, about how Barack Obama picked that number out of thin air in his September 2009 speech on health care, as to what health care reform should cost. That arbitrary number has flummoxed Democrats in coming up with a...

Obama's speech at Fort Hood has been declared to be his greatest speech ever. Seemed appropriate, but pedestrian, to me. Now if Obama had spoken from the heart without a teleprompter, that would have been special.I much preferred Obama's "my pet goat" speech, when Obama...