Posted on 01/22/2011 3:38:47 PM PST by Kaslin
The State of the Union Address is usually among the most important and least memorable of presidential speeches. The speech itself, in an august setting, is an opportunity for a president to break through in a new way. TV and radio carry it live, and it's hard for the average citizen to avoid seeing at least a piece of it. It's a real chance for a White House to tell the American people "This is where we stand, this is why we are here, this is what we believe in."
But most State of the Unions don't measure up. They get beaten down by the staffing process and flattened by the laundry-list aspects: "We'll do this and this and this." There's always too much going on in the speech, and in the end it's usually, in Churchill's phrase, a pudding without a theme.
The State of the Union Address is usually among the most important and least memorable of presidential speeches. The speech itself, in an august setting, is an opportunity for a president to break through in a new way. TV and radio carry it live, and it's hard for the average citizen to avoid seeing at least a piece of it. It's a real chance for a White House to tell the American people "This is where we stand, this is why we are here, this is what we believe in."
But most State of the Unions don't measure up. They get beaten down by the staffing process and flattened by the laundry-list aspects: "We'll do this and this and this." There's always too much going on in the speech, and in the end it's usually, in Churchill's phrase, a pudding without a theme.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Now she just seems like a caricature of a caricature.
In her case, the passage of years has not brought senility, but shallowness.
BINGO!
She views everything thru a speechwriter's prism -- without regard for the content.
Helpful in a speechwriting class. But useless in the real world.
Don’t wet yourself, Peggy.
"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....
A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Hey Peggy - most of us care how America is doing...not how some speech went over.
^^^
Excellent answer!
Reagan must be barfing in his grave.
I hope that we won’t have to go through this drivel that Islam is a ROP again. Once was enough.
Will Obama waive his COLB and triumphantly claim “Peace in our time”?
ROP = “Religion of Peace”? Or “Religion of PIECES”? (scattered body parts following terror attacks)
I've read that there's an epidemic of various dementias in this country; I have NO idea what Noonan's physical and/or mental health status is.... just saying...
Peggy is still defending her vote for Barry.
I thought she was over her Obama crush. Guess not
DP is going to take Tom to see Jimmy Buffett in Charlotte in April. I was thinking of getting my redneck on and going along, but omg, the bathrooms ...
Please Peg, this is inane. The Pubs should now reconsider sitting with the hating Dems like Cohen and you should go on vacation. Bama promises MORE SPENDING with a view toward....some cuts, maybe , pretty please. More regs too. Wow. You , Peg need a long rest in Antigua with Andy Reid of the Eagles. SOTU is a farce and you should know it. I want the old days when the majority Pubs boo the dope .
This is just Peggy Noonan's backhanded way of complimenting herself.
A prediction:
President Obama's State of the Union speech will be the usual ... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Yet Peggy Noonan, Bill O'Reilly and the Fox News Allstars will nod patronizingly and praise O's speech as "magnificent" ... just as they praised his forgettable speech at the Tuscon funerally. And his forgettable speech on "race." And his forgettable speech in Cairo...
He can only spends what Congess gives him.
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