On the State of the Union

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[Merciful_Friend]

I've been a pretty light Twitter user, all in all, but last night I decided to try "live tweeting" President Obama's State of the Union speech, for the fun of it. And I figured I may as well recycle all of those stunning bon mots for this little piece on the subject today.

Twitter is of-course a cross-platform communication and social networking application which limits users to no more than 140 characters per "tweet."

Before the speech began, I took note of someone I observed in the audience:

Police officer who shot Fort Hood jihadist is with Michelle Obama.

Perhaps the Flying Dutchman is in the house as well?

President can then say, "Here's my Homeland Security team!"

In the event, and honestly to my great surprise, in the course of his 70 minute prime time TV event, President Obama never introduced Sgt. Kimberly Munley, so never giving her the chance to receive an ovation from the senators and congressmen/women. (It would have been the only truly deserved ovation of the night, of-course. Could the possibility of people noticing that stark contrast be the reason Obama didn't go for it? Beats me.)

[Merciful_Friend]

More commentary on the horrendous show last night.

[MsLady]

It really was pathetic. Bless her, I didn’t realize the hero that took down the terrorist at Fort Hood was in the audience. Obama sure is all about himself isn’t he?

[Freddd]

All eyes have to be on him, he can not share...

[TrueFact]

I’ve got to say, too, that when he acknowledged Michele it was just weird. To paraphrase Peggy Noonan, ‘It felt wrong.’ Then Michele gets that ugly scowl on her face that we’ve seen before and says “just sit down”. Then 0bama says “she gets embarrassed”. Weird, weird, weird. And unholy to beat all.