Flipped on the State of the State of the Union first word "I"

LOL I caught that too, Jeff.

Wow, he really DOES care about the electorate.
He's not just beyond belief; he's beyond parody.

Hillarious!
There is no I in team,
and there is no We in America.

I'll bet he has his best sex when he is alone with his mirror. What a putz. Words fail to describe this man's extraordinary ego.

He recently stated he would rather be a great one term president than a mediocre two term pres.

That tells me that his is already bored with his gig and can't wait to get on to his next post. This one is starting to look too much like work.

Obama doesn't work.

"There is no I in team".

Nope, but there's an M & an E

I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war.

Who ya snowin' now Nobel boy ?

This isn't community organizing the rubes it's global politics -- but it's still about you. Personality cult politics don't play well on the world stage even Putin knows this.

I don't follow politics, can somebody explain to me why the U.S. president sent his butler to deliver an important speech?

that was funny.....

Well, I lasted 48 seconds. Did anyone beat that?

Tonight was the beginning of Barack Carter's long goodbye.

Kate - here's a new soundtrack for this bit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A

RE: The big Apple "jump the shark" reveal on the same night as Obama's SOTU address?

I-PAD vs I-ME

*grin*

I made it through the many "I"s and "I inherited"s.

Started to get queasy when he started lecturing about openness. I thought Joe Wilson might yell out "C Span!"

Felt like going for the Gravol when the king of bribes and dirty secret deals got into how earmarks should be more more transparent.

Gasped when he said - after 100s of speeches - that people weren't in favour of health care reform because he hadn't spoken enough about it. Apparently, they still think calling the electorate 'stupid' is the way to go. I'm surprised he didn't call the Independents "tea baggers" tonight. They loved that in Mass.

Had a hint of dinner deja vu when he started on about the need for bipartisanship.

Totally lost it when the perpetual campaigner said every day shouldn't be Election Day... and that politicians should get on with governing.

Anyone know a good carpet cleaner?

Hilarious!

From Ace's:
I & me - the Obama self-love numbers:

Obama SOTU 2010 First Person Singular Pronoun Count
I – 96 times
me – 8 times

Bush SOTU 2008 First Person Singular Pronoun Count
I – 39 times
me – 2 times

Posted by: Pre Paid Sex Monster at January 27, 2010 10:51 PM (0fzsA)

I actually fell asleep watching the SOTU tonite. Seriously, I did!

It was a complete and total Obamarama. Did I hear correctly or did he say something about "all student debt to be forgiven after 20 years - or 10 years if you are in the public service"?

I couldn't take my eyes off Nancy Pelosi. Memo to Nancy... prior to TV time, refrain from the mushrooms.

Yes he did say that, Brian M. @11:24. I must have caught that part before I dozed off.....

There is only one word that comes to mind - ICH. I find it hard to believe that the American people will put up with being talked to like that. It doesn't matter who is doing the lecturing.

In so many ways he reminds me of the Brits of old who believed if you spoke English loudly and clearly enough anyone would understand. Obama believes his 'truths' are so self evident that you must be a more than a little thick not to understand the rightness and the wisdom of those truths.

It's a double down - more of everything the same for the Big O.

You know that feeling you get as you watch a train wreck or car crash as it happens? It's the same horrible fascination I have right now, watching how far this is actually going to go towards some fiery, inevitably final conclusion.

But Bush used the word "I" a lot too.

Like in his remarks about Osama Bin Laden:

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

G.W.Bush is the President of the United States.
Live for today, marquis.
Living in the past is for tomorrow's losers.

Bush isn't the President

Must have been bored, watched the whole thing. Typical Obahma, lets cooperate- you do everything my way, and by the way you guys screwed everything up. I hate banks, oil companies and big business. Vote for me. The supreme court, media, busines don't know what they're doing. Muslims are great, CO2 climate change is real. I need a teleprompter to order coffee at McD's. I don't need to say more.

Oh hey that's cool, Oz --

I just thought that since Kate felt it crucially important to note that one President used the word "I", then it was relevant that another President used that word. I mean since it's so crucially important and decisive in determining Presidential leadership and all...

Thought it was interesting too that the former President was unconcerned about the whereabouts of the perpetrator of the biggest mass murderer in US history - which happened on his watch.

That's all.

marquis:

The observation was that the FIRST word Obama used was ‘I.'

Agreed?

Yes, set you free

There was an observation in this thread that the first word Obama used in his SOTU speech.

My comment, though, was about the video Kate posted.

I also found it interesting that Bush was utterly unconcerned about the biggest killer in US history.

He sure was concerned about Saddam Hussein though, wasn't he - who had nothing to do with 9-11. He used the panic of 9-11 to go after Hussein, while remaining unconcerned about the actual perpetrator.

Interesting.

The reason Bush didn't care about Bin Laden is because he knew that in all probability Bin Laden was dead and rotting in a cave and only the chronically stupid fail to realize that small point. And anyone who disagrees with me can post a photo of the same Bin Laden holding a copy af a current newspaper. Any newspaper.

Well, I did like his reference to the critical points in American history, "Bull Run" and "Normandy"
Unfortunately, that's when he compares himself to Washington or Eisenhower. Bloody fool has delusions.
It's entertaining because we can watch in a few weeks when his rhetoric doesn't pan out. Then we get to hear an encore
performance from the "King of crap and sleaze".

Thought it was interesting too that the former President was unconcerned about the whereabouts of the perpetrator of the biggest mass murderer in US history - which happened on his watch.
~marquis

Bush had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the biggest mass murder in U.S. history, in custody by September 11, 2002.
Since then his whereabouts has been of little concern to G.W. Bush until Obama declared he should be brought to NYC and tried there.

All the other perpetrators died in the plane crashes.
Osama bin Laden, the spokesman for al-Qaeda, died in Tora Bora in early winter 2001, he is moldy meat paste on the inside of some collapsed cave.

I don't know what you go on about sometimes.

I simply refuse to watch BO unless it's with the sound off to see what psychopathology is reflected in his body movements. Having the TOTUS speech text emailed would save lots of time for fast readers.

Heard from a friend in the US today that BO trashed the supreme court justices for coming out in support of the 1st Amendment in their ruling regarding the NRA's right to run 3rd party ads during elections. When was the last time you heard a Canadian prime minister disagree the same way with a SCC decision? BO also proposed to pass legislation to bring back restrictions on spending during elections. Apparently Fox news carried a shot of one of the supreme court justices mouthing "not true" when BO went on about overturning the supreme court decision by legislation.

The US president is supposed to be a guardian of the US constitution and here he is ready to violate the 1st ammendment to suit his political purposes. I'm getting this information second hand, but my friend in the US is a lawyer and found it absolutely incomprehensible that this sort of thing could happen in SOTU address. It may be that chosing Biden as his VP was the most intelligent decision that BO made as this makes it much less likely that he'll be impeached (unless Biden and Polosi have unfortunate simultaneous smelting accidents).

Can anyone substantiate the teleprompter in the classroom thing?
I've read that it was a hoax.
Not sure what to believe.

Does the White House have to pay the networks for the air time?

And Gawd, wouldn't it be horrible to have to sit through that?
Joe Biden has the worst job in the world.

re: "I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war."

Read the essay The Roots of War, in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand, to get a clue.

nv53: I'll certainly pass along your recommendation to my good buddy Barrack Obama, who said, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war."

G:

I too thought the "Totus in the classroom" it had to be photoshopped....then I checked it out on the Whitehouse.gov website. The photo was there too but don't know if it still is....I found it under the "education" tab.

Sorry Nova Scotia. You’ll have to wait until 2017 but it won’t be a total one. So it might not suit Barry.
(That’s what he’s called in Indonesia)

http://tinyurl.com/yc44c2u

Wow - Oz and U just make shit up when they haven't got a ready argument. Truly pathetic.

But what else are they gonna do when they rush to defend a President who shrugged off the perpetrator of the biggest mass murder on US soil - which happened on his watch!

Like I said marquis, produce a photo of Bin Laden or STFU. Bush is twice the man that Obama is and losers like you aren't fit to wipe the spittle off of his boots. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1366508/US-casts-doubt-on-bin-Ladens-latest-message.html

What don't like that one? Even the New York Times implied as much
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/opinion/11TAHE.html?ex=1089432000&en=373a282aeff2716a&ei=5070&todaysheadlines
And to heap another insult upon your pathetic little mind I guess you were sleeping when Benazir Bhutto, in an interview before her death, named Omar Sheikh as the man who murdered Bin Laden.
He's dead moron, get it thru your little peanut. The only reason for his continued longevity is to have a boogie man to parade in front of the sheeple. The only people who still believe he is is alive have IQ's less than Shaq's shoe size.In other words lefties and newsies.

The POTUS uses a teleprompter for his annual eye exam.

Wretchard's summary:

"“*Hold on boys, Hope is on the way.”"

Hope's little sister, Fear, is the silent, unspeaking presence:

",fear, a white liver'd-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes."
(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

*Belmont Club:
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/01/27/the-state-of-the-union-speech/#more-7785

Anybody count the times of BBS? you would think that after a year or so the Blame Bush Syndrome would start to wear thin.

The big 'O' reminds me of an old Carly Simon tune...

The marquis de troll said: "I also found it interesting that Bush was utterly unconcerned about the biggest killer in US history."

Well Mr. troll, it could be that Ol' George was "utterly unconcerned", or it could be that he understood the nature of Al Qaeda was such that killing Bin Laden (if he wasn't already dead) would make zero difference to the people doing terror attacks on the USA. Something which His One-ness, Barry of the Royal We, simply does not get. Or worse, ignores for nefarious purposes.

Al Qaeda as we have seen in the last ten years is a beast with no head. It has no infrastructure, no vital components, no organization at all, really. Its a bunch of guys all over the world with the same idea, doing whatever they want whenever the opportunity presents itself.

You can't kill it by direct action, there's nothing to attack. But you can -starve- it to death by destroying the regimes that give these clowns munitions and a place to hide. Hence the Iraq war, the Afghan war, and if he'd had the balls to do the whole job an Iran war and a North Korea war. All the munitions blowing up Canadians in Afghanistan this year come from those two countries. The Taliban isn't in a position to make their own stuff, right?

Most of the reason why Iran and NorK still stands is d1cks like yourself Mr. Troll, just btw, way to protect the inhuman tyrant states. But this strays from my main point.

So now, into this program of starving Al Qaeda by attacking the people who feed it we inject The One. Barry Obama, the Hope'nChange Saviour of the common man, the guy whose every word is pure gold.

Whose response to a Christmas attack on the USA by the Exploding Underpants guy has been... what, exactly? Nothing, really. Well, other than to crank down the screws on US air travelers a couple more turns. Basically reward the people whose abject failures let UnderwearMan on the plane with more money and more power. Which they will use to perpetuate their present abject failure to new heights of stupidity.

State of the Union had what new and bold plans to reach out and destroy Al Qaeda? Get Bin Laden? Zippo. ZilchZeroNada is what it had.

Who put the trial of major Al Qaeda guys and current Guantanamo Bay residents in New York City? Barry. Why? Certainly not safety, according to the NYPD chief.

Oh and btw, who hasn't pulled any troops out of anyplace that mean ol' George W. Bush put them, one year in and against his promises? Could it be... Barry?

What was Barry's big keystone promise last night marquis? TAX CUTS, monkey boy. Tax cuts. Why? Because Scott Brown won in Mass, and Barry's handlers are PANICKING. But Barry's cool, he doesn't have to worry until 2012. Maybe the pig will learn to sing by then, eh?

I don't have much respect for Lefty trolls, but I would think that even you would know that when a guy says "this is not about me!" in a speech where he refers to himself 136 times, it really, really is all about him. And nothing else but him.

The most jarring thing is how Obama called for non-partisan co-operation and a reduction in hostilities, while taking potshots at Republicans and Bush throughout.

He just can't help himself.

The POTUS uses a teleprompter for his annual eye exam.
~Prof Lori

It's been said that he uses a teleprompter to call his dog, BO.
(Even the dog's name is all about him)

People who are egocentric have no idea they are egocentric, this is a fine example which should be played for Obama over and over and over and over again. It might save the world.

I was shocked, shocked I tell ya when I watched the CBC last night.

Before the One's speech, Neil MacDonald spoke about the state of the US economy and quoted somebody (?)

“A politician can no more take credit for creating jobs than a rooster can take credit for the sunrise."

That was a couple of hours before the crowing started.

"It's been said that he uses a teleprompter to call his dog, BO.
(Even the dog's name is all about him)"

fwiw:

3w.people.com/people/article/0,,20271921,00.html

I heard of people *looking* like their dog, but named after them? shee-it.

my dog's name is Juno. look it up in any WW II history book.

Lyle:

:"The big 'O' reminds me of an old Carly Simon tune..."

Did you catch the post heading?

Jim

Er, I meant the YouTube title...

For those of us who have begun to talk in terms of freedom v. tyranny (individual v. collective, reaching for the top v. settling to be part of the lowest common denominator) instead of a left v. right political spectrum (which the MSM uses to suggest that somewhere in the middle is OK), this was the best speech Barry could have ever given!

For a little while, I was getting worried that the self proclaimed, politically savvy pundits might be right in terms of expecting him to "pivot" towards the middle (a la Bill Clinton) as this is what a normal politician would do in the face of the "Vote Heard Around the World" in Massachusetts last week and, thereby, give his party's candidates at least a chance of getting elected in November.

Thankfully, he did nothing of the sort. Basically seemed to be saying that his agenda is still great and it’s only a matter of educating Americans to get them smart enough to see His light. (How long before people realize his spending "freeze" basically just "locks-in" the massive increases he's just made to program spending, 35% in the case of the EPA).

Shows how truly ideologically driven he is (even down to the policy minutia of giving a bigger tax break to university grads who ultimately choose a career in public service, i.e. join a union).

The American public is starting to truly understand the threat that his "modern-day" Progressive (thanks, Hillary) agenda (Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Communist all variations on the same theme) represents to the continued erosion of their freedom. With Barry's apparent determination to continue to move in that direction, the outlook for the Dems to lose big-time in November looks brighter than ever.

Let's hope the Repubs understand that they don't need to get any more complex than focusing on the short list of issues that succeeded for Scott Brown; jobs, lower taxes, smaller government, no gov't health care, and no civilian trials for enemy combatants.

Little of substance, probably less action, unfortunately on the mounting deficit/debt of the U.S.
For those so inclined. The U.S. G.D.P. in 2008 was 60%, who was the Pres. that year?
It is forecast to be 108% by 2014.
At that level the economy will be lucky to achieve over 1.0% growth. This bodes ill for Canada and our linked economy.

Sorry should be debt to G.D.P. should not type and think at the same time.

President Obama ended his SotU speech with this phrase: "We don't quit. I don't quit."

a) That is four negative words out of six. 66% negative.

b) Of the two remaining words one was "I" and the other was a royal "We" which implies "I". Remaining words are 75% "I".

c) He started the phrase with "We" referring to the entire American people, 300+ million strong, most powerful country on earth, speaking as its leader. He ended, in the more important spot, with a echoed reference to himself. 100% redundant.

That speech was very revealing. It revealed a strongly negative and deeply self-obsessed man.

Guffaw of the night:
We are here to serve the American people, not our own ambitions.

Ya right.

This thread is filled with cynicism and hatred.

This thread is filled with cynicism and hatred.

O'nan said:
"This thread is filled with cynicism and hatred."

More here: "the Obama thrill is gone."
...-

"Internet Buzz on Obama Drops After State of the Union

The blog reviews of President Obama's first State of the Union speech are in, and they're not good. The president's speech drove his online buzz down 2 percentage points, with bloggers especially harsh on his approach to unemployment and terrorism.

"Heading into yesterday's State of the Union address, President Obama's online buzz was 52 percent positive, which was 32 percent lower than it was on Jan. 27, 2009, when it peaked at 84 percent positive. Since giving his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama's overall online buzz reputation continued to drop and is currently registering at 50 percent positive overall—a 2 percent total reduction in less than a 24-hour period," says a spokesman for Zeta Interactive, a digital marketing agency that mines millions of blogs to judge the buzz on a subject for Washington Whispers.

Below is its post-speech memo to us, but the highlights seem to show that for many, the Obama thrill is gone. For example, the negative buzz on blogs increased when he talked about his new signature issue, unemployment. It also dropped on his approach to the wars.

But Obama scored on his threats to banks, his education promises, and his push for an energy plan."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2439461/posts

"Not about me"

Yes it is, Slick.

Hey U

You just make yourself look more pitiful and deranged when you keep asserting something there's no objective evidence for and with which no-one else believes - except your fellow deluded cult member Oz. Drop it for your own sake, okay?

Phantom

I've presumed you're a shut-in, given the copious posts you've made here and at other sites. But that's no excuse for the pitiful lack of intelligence displayed in your attempt to defend a President who was not only unconcerned about the perpetrator of the biggest mass murder in US history but actually used the fear and panic resultant of that attack to attack someone who had NOTHING to do with 9-11.

Such rabid defense of these actions on the part of you, Oz and U bring to mind the irrational behaviour of cult members. You guys demonstrably and continually make stuff up out of thin air in service to your cult. It's disturbing, and shows why you're on the whacked-out fringe.

You're either exceedingly dumb and afraid to think for yourselves - or you're traitors, actually on the side of the enemies of America.

Or...maybe you're both!

Rush said today that Obama was not speaking to school children, but to a group of reporters.

Chairman O states "I would rather be a great one-term President than be a mediocre two-term President."

He will be neither. He will be a "terrible one-term President." He already is.

America can survive having him as a one-term President. They don't want to push their luck in electing him a second time.

I hope he stays the course and pursues his agenda. Hopefully by then America will come to realize that punting this guy is crucial to their survival.

Actually, it would be crucial to the free world. In the mean time I pray for another Ronald Reagan to appear.

Hey marquis:

Let's look at the last year objectively... the "Big O" has failed miserably at pretty much everything he's touched. The thing most Americans are really starting to wake up to is that his economic policies are driving their country to ruin... ask anyone who lived in Germany when their currency went bad about how tough things can get. My folks have said that the last time it happened, most Germans worked two years for absolutely NOTHING...

marquis:

"Bush shrugged off... biggest killer in US history..." *eyes closing*... "happend on Bush's watch..." *head nodding*... " "Bush was totally unconcerned... Saddam had nothing to do with 911..." *zzzzzzzzzzz*

At least marquis is predictable, if nothing else. If he'd only added, "Fire doesn't melt steel", why, we all could have rested comfortably.

That 911 was the reductio of a series of events completely "shrugged off", to use marquis' terminology, by the clinton administration, escapes him: the first WTC attack, the US embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, and so forth. The completely ineffective clinton response emboldened al queda to a point where the idea of perpetrating 911 happend on clinton's watch, marq-troll, not Bush's. And the intelligence "wall" erected by jamie gorelick, deputy AG on clinton's watch, helped prevent the US alphabet soup agencies from connecting vital dots that might have provided warning of the attack. She should have been testifying in front of the 911 instead of conducting it; i bet her name rings no bells for you, does it, marquis?

At any rate, do you think the US is actually safer from attack with Maobama at the helm, rather than Bush? If so, you are more unhinged from reality than your posts indicate. Bush took the fight TO the jihadists; obama made conciliatory speeches to them in his "America Apologises to Islam" tour. A fat lot of good that did, eh, marquis? The islamists thanked obama by staging the Ft. Hood murders and Christmas Day attack. And obama could not even go as far as to acknowledge islamic terrorism or even fundamentalism as an issue; the Christmas day bomber was a "suspect" with "alleged" activities. Pitiful, and disgusting. More Americans will die with this loser at the helm of their nation's security.

Personally, I think Scott Brown's comment on the state of US approach to terrorism was the best (paraphrased): "I think US taxdollars should go towards weapons used to kill terrorists, rather than paying lawyers to represent them"

Not to worry, though, marquis. Doubtless, after the next major terrorist attack on the US, obama will have a stirring speech ready to go, and likely blaming bush in the process, too.

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