Yes, he did look crazed last night. The Scolding look of contempt, unlike ANY other President, and I have watched these speeeches for almost fifty years.
The trick to an Obama speech is NEVER to look and listen at the SAME time.
You do one or the other, but never both. There is something about his speaking style that attempts to induce mass hypnosis. That along, with the head bobbing side to side constantly, induces a subconcious state to make the hearer more receptive to the words spoken.
How many times did he use the phrase "Pass the Bill!" last night--20X? Yet, there IS NO BILL! Why repeat a line about something that does not exist?
Simple--to make the listener think there is a bill, and the repitition is there and enforced to make the listener more inclined to do it.
The hubris of this naked emperor to demand another half trillion dollars to do what a previous trillion has failed to do, at a time, when we are going over a financial cliff,is either madness, or it is part of a carefully calculated plan to funnel more money into the Democrat Party coffers for 2012 under the guise of "jobs, jobs, jobs".
The GOP can stop laughing. They better start gritting their teeth and getting on with the business of saving this country.