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Get Ready: President Obama’s State of the Union Address is Two Days Away
White House ^ | January 18, 2015 03:30 PM EST | Jenna Brayton

Posted on 01/19/2015 4:05:11 AM PST by WhiskeyX

Two days from today on Tuesday, January 20, President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address to the American people.

This will be the sixth year President Obama has given a State of the Union speech, and each year, President Obama and his staff have spent weeks getting ready for the big night.

But the State of the Union was not always the way we picture it today. Article Two of the Constitution mandates that the president compose an annual State of the Union message, but it does not state that the president must deliver that message verbally. So up until President Woodrow Wilson, most presidents just submitted their State of the Union address on paper for Congress to review -- many of them didn’t give a speech at all!

In fact, what we think of today as the “State of the Union address” wasn’t even called the “State of the Union” until the middle of the 20th century. President Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to refer to his speech as a “State of the Union” address, with most presidents following suit.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhosotu; obama; sotu
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Lost opportunity to make history by disinviting Obama
1 posted on 01/19/2015 4:05:11 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Do you think for a minute that the GOP will have the balls to give him “the back” like the NYC officers did to the junior commie imposter mayor deblowjob? they will all clap and stand like seals at a circus.


2 posted on 01/19/2015 4:08:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: WhiskeyX

Oh...gag me with a spoon!


3 posted on 01/19/2015 4:08:14 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: WhiskeyX

“Don’t think, don’t question, just obey your dear leader...and it’s the republicans’ fault.”

Speech in a nutshell.


4 posted on 01/19/2015 4:08:37 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: WhiskeyX

State of the Union or Lie of the Union ? Because we know everything he says is going to be completely and utter BS. This guy has never given an honest speech in his life.


5 posted on 01/19/2015 4:09:40 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Oh, I’m so waiting in anticipation. NOT


6 posted on 01/19/2015 4:10:16 AM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: WhiskeyX

I really do wish he’d just mail it in like he does everything else!


7 posted on 01/19/2015 4:11:16 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: ronnie raygun

How do like DeBlowjob blasting Romney the other day for saying he wanted to created jobs? This Mayor WANTS people to be unemployed! LOL! I cannot believe this twerp is Mayor, that city is so effed.


8 posted on 01/19/2015 4:11:49 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: WhiskeyX
Article Two of the Constitution mandates that the president compose an annual State of the Union message

Art II: "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient;..."

Everything is dumbed down these days.

9 posted on 01/19/2015 4:12:27 AM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Unfortunately I will not be able to watch. I will be occupied changing the air in my mower tires. May just straighten out those stereo wires as well.


10 posted on 01/19/2015 4:12:34 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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And you think he wouldn't simply shove open the door and walk to the podium??

And we would become "The Racist Generation"....when in fact he's causing the present race problems....he and Holder...and the other "I hate whitey crowd....and that includes Michelle who is probably the biggest racist of all.

11 posted on 01/19/2015 4:19:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: WhiskeyX

Oh goody....another lecturing, smug, cringe-worthy spectacle of rhetorical masturbation.


12 posted on 01/19/2015 4:20:33 AM PST by wayoverontheright
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To: WhiskeyX

Too bad the GOP won’t have the same b@lls as the NYPD, and turn their backs on him. I would love to see this.


13 posted on 01/19/2015 4:20:58 AM PST by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: WhiskeyX

I will ONLY watch the illegitimate, bisexual, Marxist Kenyan Muslim Usurper if there’s a drinking game involved.

“Let me be clear...” - do a shot.

“My fellow Americans...” - double.

Every fifth “Me” - do a shot.

Anyone else have suggestions?


14 posted on 01/19/2015 4:22:48 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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Americans (Republicans, Democrats and Supreme Court members) should just stay home.

They can invent an audience but not the congress

CSPAN cameramen will require chiropractic manipulation to recover from all the angles they'd have to twist into to air the address to look like anyone really cared.

JUST STAY HOME ... JUST STAY HOME ... !

15 posted on 01/19/2015 4:25:09 AM PST by knarf
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To: Old Sarge

Anyone else have suggestions?

Every time he turns his head to the side and sticks his nose straight up in the air like Mussolini. That’s one shot for each side. Better get a fresh bottle of Woodford Reserve


16 posted on 01/19/2015 4:39:17 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: WhiskeyX

Instead of “Hail to the Chief”, REO’s “Little Queenie” could be played.


17 posted on 01/19/2015 4:41:16 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: IamConservative

Yes, I agree, I will be dusting under the beds............


18 posted on 01/19/2015 4:42:27 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Old Sarge

“folks” = one shot

(You will only need one shot per reference because he will use the term a LOT)


19 posted on 01/19/2015 4:43:06 AM PST by locountry1dr (Political correctness kills)
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To: WhiskeyX

I won’t be watching.


20 posted on 01/19/2015 4:44:03 AM PST by windsorknot
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