Posted on 01/31/2010 8:26:33 AM PST by ricks_place
HANDS down, the State of the Union’s big moment was Barack Obama’s direct hit on the delicate sensibilities of the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The president was right to blast the 5-to-4 decision giving corporate interests an even greater stranglehold over a government they already regard as a partially owned onshore subsidiary. How satisfying it was to watch him provoke Alito into a “You lie!” snit. Here was a fight we could believe in.
There was more to admire in Obama’s performance as well. He did not retreat into the bite-size initiatives — V-chips, school uniforms — embraced by an emasculated Bill Clinton after his midterm pummeling of 1994. The president’s big original goals — health care, economic recovery, financial reform — remained nominally intact, as did his sense of humor. In a rhetorical touch William Safire would have relished, Obama had the wit to rush the ritualistic “our union is strong” so it would not prompt the usual jingoistic ovation.
...We keep hearing that they just don’t make legislative giants like that anymore. In truth, the long drought has led us to forget what they look like and to define senatorial leadership down. L.B.J.’s current successor, Harry Reid, could be found yawning on camera Wednesday night...
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Wow. Alternative universe.
Frank Rich has his head so far up obamao’s arse he can see Keith Olberman’s ankles.
I wonder if it makes one crisp “POP!” or a long drawn out “Snnnnnuuuurgle” sound when Frank pulls his head out of Barry’s hiney.
Ah, Frank Rich. Good thing he was pardoned, eh?
Frank Rich is an idiot spouting the Democrat Washington line. This is what makes politics so unbelievable. The unions - I suppose that they do not buy influence at all with their members’ money and labor?
It sounded like the teleprompter processor did a random sort on each phrase before putting it up for Obama to read it. Coherent it was not!
There's still time for that, Frank.
Dem Logic: fighting Supreme Court judges, taxpayers, Republicans - good
fighting Iran, North Korea, terrorists - bad (we must understand their feelings)
PS - I like how the NY Times own Supreme Court reporter said Alito was right and Obama was wrong
What shallow people think is that future American politics will be controlled by showmen that get the upper hand on their lesser-talented bretheren. Wrong. It is going to be dominated by stark economic numbers that leave no room for maneuvering and playing games. Those numbers are going to crush Obama’s socialist hopes, and make pansies like Rich cry uncontrollably.
Dear Frank
If the corporations had such a strangle hold on our govt, why do we have among the highest corp taxes in the world?
Hmmmm?
The State of the Union is borderline:
a) economic collapse,
b) Revolution,
c) Civil War,
d) some combination of the above.
ROTFLMAO!!! (dripping with coffee....)
“There was more to admire in Obama’s performance as well.”
Was this guy listening to the speech I heard? As usual Barry did a wonderful job speechifying, no substance just words, and I might ad, the usual sprinkling of Obamalies.
Huh?
Hey Frank, aren’t new outlets like the NYT a corporation?
Why is it okay for them to spout their viewpoints?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Correct. The NY Times corporation is the mouth organ for the fairy lobby and sicko queers like Rich.
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