Will You Watch The State Of The Union Address?

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Tonight President Obama will be on presenting his first State Of The Union Address to a Joint Session Of Congress. In this speech the President will address some of the major problems our nation currently faces, as well as lay out a national plan to solve such problems.

No matter what your political stance, will you watch to be able to critique the President's plan for a road to recovery?

I usually don't watch these speeches, I've watched about 4 in it's entirety mostly of President Bush. I'll watch this one for sure just to get a sense of the plan of how this nation's problems will be solved.

Peace

pandora

no I've lost my faith

blackredyellow

I'll probably watch it... This speech and it's aftermath is pretty much my one last chance that I'm giving Obama to get some stuff done instead of just talking about it.

DPrival78

no

cincybearcat

Unfortunately I won't be able to and I forgot to set up the DVR.

yahamita

Tough choice. I can either watch the lies coming out of his mouth, or head out and see a great Bluegrass band from Colorado, Head for the Hills..perfect name for this band and the state of this country..

blenderman69

i thought i'd have it on in the background while i made love to my wife....he's just gonna tell us we're all fucked anyway...so why not fuck while i'm getting fucked

musicismylife78

I have no interest in politics, especially electoral politics. At this point it seems so useless to do any of that.

Things I wish obama would say in the speech-

pulling out all troops from iraq and afghanistan

installing a fdr/new deal style organization and infrastructure that will put people to work. Something along the lines of a WPA. admit he was absolutely out of his mind clueless when he declared the recession is over, and get down to the nitty gritty: helping those millions of people right now, who cant pay their bills, who are losing their houses, their farms, their jobs.

make definite and clear statements that we will reduce carbon emissions by huge amounts, and that we need as a nation need to pull together to deal seriously with the climate crisis. Recycling is great, but lets face it, more needs to be done and said reguarding the crisis than that.

a nationwide effort to come to terms and deal honestly with race relations.

that the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex is racist, and classist and that it needs to be overhauled. That building more jails, bigger jails, or jailing more people, really is pointless.

legalize drugs. As long as drugs are illegal, or until we deal with the race problem identified above, race and drugs will always be linked. For reasons beyond my comprehension, the larger society has been able to link drugs use with race, and has been able to jail non violent drug users, mostly black, while not jailing white users with the same severity or frequency.

musicismylife78

so in conclusion, no i will not watch. Obama is a liar. He is no different than the 43 other presidents in history or whatever it is. Its just his skin color is different. Thats the only difference. He is not god. He is a politician.

I resisted being caught up in the "Hope" fervor prior to the election, because I knew it was all a game and hoax. I knew he was and is a politician, he knows who he works for, and it aint us.

unsung

I gave up watching them because every third word is interrupted by two minutes of applause.

Jeanwah

I may try, but give up in the first five minutes...as usual. Nothing but empty promises.

Really, why do they bother having these addresses? To hear their own applause?

CJMST3K

I probably won't watch it, but I'll listen to it. 8-)

aerial

I will watch......to see who yells at him this time

dpmay

CJMST3K wrote:

I probably won't watch it, but I'll listen to it. 8-)

this. three cheers for NPR!

MichaelMcKevin

this state of the union address is nothing but a checklist for us to jot down that will leave every box blank

xavier mcdaniel

I watch every year regardless of president. It was definitely one of the longer ones in recent memory.

kenny olav

Haha, he was talking to Congress as if they were schoolkids in detention... but they deserved it.

I actually liked what he said and how he said it... well, pretty much... in relative terms, of course. Unlike Bush, he at least seems to give a shit about what he's saying. Too much cynicism about government out there. We're not any better than they are... put it that way.

musicismylife78

Kenny Olav wrote:

Haha, he was talking to Congress as if they were schoolkids in detention... but they deserved it.

I actually liked what he said and how he said it... well, pretty much... in relative terms, of course. Unlike Bush, he at least seems to give a shit about what he's saying. Too much cynicism about government out there. We're not any better than they are... put it that way.

i know its not kosher right now to be cynical, as team conan would say, but how can you look at politics and not be cynical about it?

Just taking obama as an example, the guy was basically called the next jesus christ prior to his election, was widely believed that he was going to radically alter what being a politican meant, and that he actually, for once was going to change things.

A year into it, how can you not look at him and be cynical about everything? He and everyone else turned their backs on the soldiers, on the workers, on everyone. Its sad.

As I said before, I am beyond bored with electoral politics. It just is of no interest to me

musicismylife78

Kenny Olav wrote:

Haha, he was talking to Congress as if they were schoolkids in detention... but they deserved it.

I actually liked what he said and how he said it... well, pretty much... in relative terms, of course. Unlike Bush, he at least seems to give a shit about what he's saying. Too much cynicism about government out there. We're not any better than they are... put it that way.

I guess the main difference, is neither you nor I was elected to an office to serve on behalf of the country, our state, and our constituency. When you are elected to office, you have a duty to listen to the public. Bush certainly didnt do it, but obama isnt listening either.

KDH12

musicismylife78 wrote:

Just taking obama as an example, the guy was basically called the next jesus christ prior to his election,

:roll:

inmytree

I watched...it was pretty good...cutting taxes, creating jobs, security, pass the health care bill...the usual stuff...

The Republican response was like an infomercial for the Ronco Rotisserie Oven...