I have some commentary for you, k? K.
Pros:
- Use of the word fierce in the first 30 seconds. Damn right Obama. We are fierce, and we’ll whoop yo ass you slut… wait… not Maury? Oh… ok, refocused.
- “Job” count: 31. Perhaps a bit overkill, but respectable.
- Extended religiosity of the rebuttal: Wow. Way to alienate more than half the country. Guess they’re not really your demographic anyway though, so they don’t matter, right?
- DREAM act support: Absolutely the right thing to do to allow undocumented immigrants who have been educated and have excelled here in the US to stay and become citizens. Difficult to structure though really… but I’m impressed by the shout out.
- High speed rail: After my pleasant Amtrak experience, I’d much prefer to be on a high speed rail line than on a plane. And the energy and emissions expended per passenger would be much lower. Hooray! MPLS would be much more appealing if Chicago wasn’t 7 hours in a car or 100+ dollars and still 2 ½ hours in the airport/plane.
- Admitting we have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world – ballsy Obama, ballsy. Good luck on those loop holes though. Those loop holes pay for a lot of dinners on the hill.
- John Boehner looking like he’s about to poop his pants right up until the point when he cried. Wonderful.
- Making all the secretly racist white dudes who are afraid of A-rabs stand up to support American Muslims.
- Proper pronunciation of Pakistan. Fancy Harvard.
- Joe Biden fist pump. Hells ya. I’d ride the Amtrak with you any day Joe.
Cons:
- Awkward clapping as the mixed seating doesn’t allow for one ideological side to unify around if they will clap or not clap.
- Call to respect teachers… but no funding to actually do so.
- Michelle Bachman’s blush… Cover Girl apparently sent her too many free samples of “Pretty in Pink”
- John McCain smirking and clapping that ear marks are bad.
- Length – this is 2011, can you send me this in a text? Tweet? FB post? If not… it’s too f-ing long. Cut to the chase POTUS.
-Blatant American exceptionalism rhetoric: 61 minutes
- Awkward half clap as some of the audience googled a map of Sudan on their blackberries
- “Small business” or entrepreneur pandering: 6. At what point do small businesses go from being the end all be all to the evil giants who take advantage of us all? 500 employees? Is it based on departments? Maybe market cap? Where is this imaginary line of good and evil?
- Though the shout out to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal is good… the preceding comments that refer to all major faiths but not atheist is awkward. You can be a man who loves a man, but you better also love some monotheistic god or else.
-Paul Ryan’s plain awkward and creepy 400 Club delivery style. Is he trying to get me to send my gold in the mail? I think he just told us the rapture is here. I don’t know. I can’t even hear him. Though I think he just told us that free enterprise itself solves poverty which I’m pretty sure isn’t true… no matter what you think of unions now, there’s a reason they developed historically.
"Awkward clapping as the mixed seating doesn’t allow for one ideological side to unify around if they will clap or not clap." ... Con, or PRO? ;)
ReplyDeleteAlso, the American Exceptionalism rhetoric was cited by a republican talking head on NPR when he was asked to mention something on which he agreed with Obama. Bold, bold bipartisan move there. I'm pretty sick of it.
I also noticed the SUPER blatant and exclusionary Christian rhetoric. Apparently if you're not Christian you aren't part of the Americans who care whether Giffords dies. Sorry.
Con - Talking about how we need more education and all that but no talk about lowering insane and increasing tuition costs.
ReplyDeletePlus. Ryan looks like Crispin Glover.