Obama finally came out and said he's in favor of dropping DADT!!!

I don't care what else he does or what else happens, I have fallen in love all over again!!!

They are talking about this on Fox now. Juan Williams is defending him. LOL, it must freakin' really hurt to be a black liberal right now.

Victory in Iraq?

Never heard of it.

In the history of this nation, in a time of war, has any president at the state of the union not thanked our military men (and women as applicable) in harm's way?

My son listened to the entire 71 minutes of agonizing bull shit of him blaming "Washington" that he apparently has no connection to just to see if he shouted out to the soldiers, sailors, marines, etc.

I'm starting to think he is blaming George Washington or Washington State or Washington Irving because he is, to a large extent, Washington. Somebody needs to tell him.

He didn't.

POS

I won! the terrorist body count. Hooray for me!

Except there isn't one. He made it up. See AP's lies. AP!

So how's that war of necessity going in Afghanistan?  Any word?  Still necessary, or is it a war of choice now?  How's that surge going, or has Bammy pulled the plug on that yet?

Hey military folks, just remember the country loves you, and is grateful for the sacrifices you've made, and celebrates your successes as well as mourns your losses.  Even if this tool doesn't.

President Obama acknowledged deep anger that citizens are feeling while outlining a list of specific steps aimed at improving the nation's fiscal outlook. He also pleaded with Congress to set aside its differences

From the Boston Globe today - I don't think "pleaded" is accurate.

Or anything that recognized the fruits of the incredible sacrifices millions of men and women in our military and their families made to make it possible.

Don't worry - he's got people for that - Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Biden!

I agree, Drew.  It was a petty, partisan, nasty little speech.

Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at January 28, 2010 11:27 AM (OZJ/1)

That was hilarious.  Thanks for the link.

Off topic, but here's something to cheer: Howard Zinn dead.

One more name, after O.J. Simpson's, to take off the "Hitlist if I am ever Terminally Ill."

Roast in hell, you communist traitor scum.

Yeah....For him to not even give a nod to Bush for setting the tone and the plans to get the hell out of there was F-ing DisGraceful!

President Obama.....I Hate You!

The clincher for me is when he lied his ass off about the Spending and Deficits. My body went into spasms and I accidentally fell out my Lazy-Boy and spilled my Beer.

You made me spill me BEER.......You scumbag.......Or maybe it was BOOOOSH who caused me to spill me Beer?

Gee Obama, how's that Gitmo thing going? How 'bout that terrorist trial in NYC.

Bloomberg mentioned using a NYC military base. They could use Ft. Hamilton in Brooklyn. Ft. Hamilton is immediately adjacent to the parish that lost 245 people in the attack on the WTC. These people would probably welcome terrorist scum into the neighborhood, in a very special way.

When I heard that Alito mouthed "That's not true" I wondered why Scalia didn't jump up and bitch slap the lying bastard. I figured it out. Scalia and Thomas had the good sense not to go. I bet we won't see Alito at another one. I guess Roberts has to go.

44 Yep. Poly Prep.

My husband actually went there on scholarship. Sharpton's kids went there and now Bon Jovi's.

Remember during the Clinton Administration people described his ability to "compartmentalize" and focus on the task at hand and not be distracted by his Lewinsky troubles?

I think O must be even more skilled at it.  That must be how he could actually tell bold faced lies so breezily.  All the talk of his lack of transparency and the C-Span clip over and over and he actually had the gall to mention transparency last night.   Talking about a 3 trillion dollar whole when he walked in the door - when it was actually 1/2 a billion?  

They could use Ft. Hamilton in Brooklyn. Ft. Hamilton is immediately adjacent to the parish that lost 245 people in the attack on the WTC. These people would probably welcome terrorist scum into the neighborhood, in a very special way.

Don't count on it. Liberals are the very definition of "teh stupid". The liberals in every damn district on Long Island voted 95% for Dems even immediately after 9-11.

Somebody here said this about a year ago - to Barak Hessien Obama words are just sounds. 

Very common attitude for academic types.  The whole postmodern philosophy focuses on divorcing symbols from meaning, and then reassigning meaning in which ever way pleases them most.  Which is why they have trouble with the meaning of 'is'.  Jeff Goldstein will be happy to tell you more than you could every possibly want to know about that kind of thing.  Not surprisingly, Chomsky is a big proponent of that crap, as are liberals in general.  It's not lying if the words don't mean anything anyway.

57 Actually that particular precinct (I know this sounds odd) votes conservative. We looked it up to make a point to a liberal family member during the Kerry run. It was nearby Bensonhurst where there was a problem in the 80s with the Hassidic jews and a black youth. I think Sharpton got involved. They have also been invaded by middle-easterners. It's pretty safe too because you don't know which house and which girl belong to the, uh, family.

I enjoyed his reasoning behind "green" jobs, etc. Something about even though it's false or not proven it would help our economy? It made no sense

Posted by: tank at January 28, 2010 12:06 PM (CW29u)

Yes - new offshore drilling too. Then he gave one of his trademark dramatic pause... and said we can have all that... along with Cap & Tax.

Posted by: Agnostica at January 28, 2010 12:03 PM (gbCNS)

"As a candidate, I promised that I would end this war, and that is what I am doing as President."

This could be a fun one ... "As a candidate I promised that I would:"

1.  put every bill on the internet for public comment

2.  transparent negotiations - everything on C-Span

3.  stop the rising of the sea levels

4.  (As president) No later than one year from now (1/22/09) Gitmo will be closed.

And so on and so on and so on.

Posted by: RM at January 28, 2010 12:15 PM (1kwr2)

Yeah. the 30% of the electorate that's still on his side.

Posted by: stace at January 28, 2010 12:00 PM (g/wgk)

hell the only time I see racism on This site that knocks Jews, AA's. E Indians, and Italians seem to come from  Lefty Trolls.

I always assume it's trout  in drag.

Remember when Bush gave the SOTU speech, he would always point out people in the audience and have them recognized by the assembly for their heroism or good works?

Did you notice that the only other people that Obama referred to besides himself during the whole speech were Michelle and Biden?

Not even a single reference to the dear, departed Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy.

Obama is redefining narcissism every single day.

Jane,

couple of days ago , he was saying how disappointed he was In Obama, empty suit -type -comments.

now he applauds him. He must be drugging. or needs to be on them. i dunno

99

I half expected a shout out to Ellie Light.

I also wonder about the slapping at wall street and such last night.

will wall street suck it up and still  to raise cash for him, for next election or... ?

Posted by: Mjim at January 28, 2010 11:23 AM (mMdWG)

I was just thinking this same thing.  He's going to spend the rest of his natural life running around the world telling everyone how racist AmeriKKKa is because they didn't re-elect a lying scumbag to his second term.  And of course, he'll be raking in large speaking fees for telling everyone how awful we are.

Remember when Bush gave the SOTU speech, he would always point out people in the audience and have them recognized by the assembly for their heroism or good works?

Did you notice that the only other people that Obama referred to besides himself during the whole speech were Michelle and Biden?

Not even a single reference to the dear, departed Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy.

Obama is redefining narcissism every single day.

Well, in Ozbambius's defense, Ted had the gall to die on him and leave him with the embarassment of a Republican being elected to his seat.  I can understand how he's just a little pissed off at Ted right now.  It is shocking, though, that he didn't give a "shout out" to Joe Medicine Hat.

Not even a single reference to the dear, departed Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy.

Given who's president, I'm not going to hear what I'd like to hear. But even he could have said something like,

"At long last, our nation's combat mission in Iraq is finally accomplished. America will continue to support Iraq, its government and its people, as they hold elections and grow its democracy and increasingly take responsibility for its own security. The men and women in our armed forces served with valor and with honor in Iraq, for which we owe them our gratitude and so much more." Then segue into the VA thing.

Not admitting that the invasion was ever justified, supporting democracy (if only in words), honoring those in the military and taking a cheap shot at Bush. Again, I wouldn't have said it this way but it would've worked for him. Instead, he reprised his role as the know-it-all dad from his Wednesday evening television show.

(1,088 days, everyone.)

I was just thinking this same thing.  He's going to spend the rest of his natural life running around the world telling everyone how racist AmeriKKKa is because they didn't re-elect a lying scumbag to his second term.  And of course, he'll be raking in large speaking fees for telling everyone how awful we are.

Heh!  I can only imagaine the "Non-profit Foundation" that he will set up after he's out of office.  He'll donate his Peace Prize money to it, and yeah, he will rake in huge amounts of dough in honorariums and lecture fees.  He's going to make our other First Black President look like a piker and low level grifter.  It will all be entertaining to watch as Bill Clinton already loathes Obama, and once Teh Bamster starts poaching off Clinton donors, that's when the real fun will start!

I was a bit saddened to see the Joint Chiefs give him a standing ovation (or at least an ovation, because I'm not sure if they were always standing). I wish they'd followed the a-political lead of the Supreme Court.

I can't remember if it was on CNN yesterday, or on our Commie CBC's all propaganda news station, but someone opined that Obama won the war in Iraq.

#120: When making hiring decisions, I used to look for a person with a good head on their shoulders -- but that discriminated against people without heads.

Did anyone already mention this? The thing about the Iraq part of the speech that pissed me off more than anything else in his speech put together was that he said he was bringing our troops home. Yeah, if "home" is Afghanistan I guess he is.

Asshole.

I give them a pass the only time I saw them applauding was when Obama talked about supporting military families.

However, this supports the idea that Bummer is actually doing anything (at least different, if not distructive) for military families. I suppose the  actual concept is laudable, but Bummer is just plain laughable. Oh well.

That pompous ass made another comment near the beginning of his speech that was very telling, a comment to the effect that he wasn't elected to comply with the wishes of the people, but to do what he determined to be the right thing to do, from which you can draw your own conclusions.

That degenerate already considers himself and his wife to be annointed royalty, and he has the mindset of a dictator, who even regards members of his own party condescendingly, all of which is bizzare, considering that he is an incompetent, dense, obtuse, shallow and incredibly stupid empty suit without the credentials to be POTUS. I hope that you realize that this country is now being run by a madman. 

Obama also disgracefully failed to mention the pullout of the Marines from al-Anbar province leaving behind a (for the middle east anyway) a near-model for safe civil Iraqi society.

The fact that the Teleprompter did not mention this was a slap in the face to the Marines. Disgraceful but not the least bit surprising.

Re: the precedent's relationship with the military

Watch what he tries to do vis a vis the GI Bill and college funding.  It's already been floated here in IL -- the IL State Veteran's Grant stays, but only if taxes are raised and/or the colleges have to eat the cost of the program (which is unlikely to almost impossible).  The need based grants are not touched because "going to college is a right for every Illinoisian!!!".  Essentially the need based grants will continue to be funded because it's social justice (and those grants are usually a bogus waste of time -- nobody is getting their education paid in total by those grants, not even paid partially), but there need to be budget cuts because the taxpayers need a break...so the veteran's grants have to go.

I'm pretty sure mister chicken molester is going to try that one on a national level -- military don't need to be getting any free education at the taxpayer's expense..not when we have poor people in real need of an education.  That'll be the approach.  They've already scouted the territory with the comments about military getting free, government healthcare, and then the payroll freezes -- the meme about the military being one of the biggest social welfare/socialist organizations out there has already been given its marching orders for some time now (if the ravings of the lefties on my local paper site are to be believed); started a couple months back and the rhetoric has ramped up since.

144 -- I think many in the military should be expecting this.  The tone seems to be among quite a few that they fully expect any and all promises and reassurances made to them completely broken, and worse, with the public's approval (or at least the public will do nothing to stop it).

This is not the sort of thing one really wants one's military thinking. 

The military protects the civilians, but we civilians need to protect our military too -- that's the take away from me at least.