SOTU Tag

Reader Poll: To SOTU or Not to SOTU?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 23, 2011 7 Comments

One of my readers has asked if we will be doing a Live Event (similar to what we did on November 2 and last January for the MA Election) for Tuesday's State of the Union address.What do you think? (Poll closes at midnight tonight)--------------------------------------------Follow me on...

Best One-Line Description of SOTU

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2010 3 Comments

From The Gail Collins (yes, again): Looking out at the motley crew seated before him for the big speech, the president seemed at times to be pretending that he had never seen these people before in his life.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

First Take on SOTU – A Small Speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2010 7 Comments

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...

A Special Guest At SOTU?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2010 4 Comments

I've been preoccupied the past few weeks, so I have not followed closely enough the end of the saga in Honduras.Manuel Zelaya, the one-term President of Honduras who wanted to be the forever-term President, will be leaving the country very soon:Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya...