LIVE THREAD- State of the Union - 27 January, 2010

27 January 2010

[SE Mom]

The president is scheduled to give the State of the Union address at 9 PM eastern.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Not watching.

[relee]

Oh lordhelpus here he comes...

... and he's not wearing purple!

[txmissy]

What’s with all the freaking purple?!?! Even Reidrooster has a purple tie.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Hi, doll.

[frogjerk]

I have never ever heard such weak applause for a supposed potus!!Amazing!

HA HA!

[DallasSun]

Thank you for starting the thread. Chocolate chip cookies? May I sit with you?

[Reagan69]

Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950 in New York City.[3][4] He was raised in Montreal, Canada where he attended Herzliah High School and McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford. He later moved to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. Suffering a paralyzing diving accident in his first year of medical school,[5] he was hospitalized for a year, during which time he continued his medical studies.[6] He graduated with his class, earning an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1975, and then began working as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In October 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.[7]

From 1975–1978, Krauthammer was a Resident and then a Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time he and a colleague identified a form of mania resulting from a concomitant medical illness, rather than a primary inherent disorder, which they named “secondary mania”[8] and published a second important paper on the epidemiology of manic illness.[9] The standard textbook for bipolar disease (Manic Depressive Illness by Goodwin and Jamison)[10] contains twelve references to his work.

In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale.

In January 1981, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor. His New Republic writings won the 1984 “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

[Rome2000]

THIS IS THE SOCIALIST HOSPITAL WORKERS UNION THUG LIAR , HUSSEIN BARAKAS POLITICAL DIRECTOR, THE GOEBBELS LIKE PROPAGANDIST WHO WRITES OBAMAS SPEECHES AND IS BEHIND THE SCENES PUSHING THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES MEDICAL INDUSTRY TO BENEFIT THE SEIU

Politicians and strategists praise Patrick Gaspard highly, although he stays away from the limelight.

"Patrick is the best political mind of his generation in New York and maybe the nation," says Kevin Sheekey, who as Michael Bloomberg's right-hand-man has frequently worked and battled with Gaspard.

"I wouldn't dispute that," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist and Gaspard's cohort on the campaign trail. When reminded that such a title could be bestowed on Axelrod himself, the strategist said he was "happy to cede that" to Gaspard.

The Washington Post, among others, has announced that a longtime labor operative of Barack Obama's, Patrick Gaspard, will be named Obama's White House political director.

Gaspard served as national political director for much of Obama's general election campaign and was named deputy director of personnel for the transition effort. Prior to his work with Obama, Gaspard was the lead political operative for the 1199 branch of the Service Employees International Union, a huge and hugely influential union representing health care workers in New York. He spent the 2004 general election as the national field director for America Coming Together.

Gaspard was featured prominently in Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker piece detailing how Obama won. Of his job interview with the Illinois Senator, Gaspard recalled Obama saying: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

[GRRRRR]

WEARING RED TIE!!

NOT a real rousing welcome if you ask me..

SARAH! She’s commenting !!

[icwhatudo]

Palin on Fox-LOL!!!!

[CAluvdubya]

MO looks p*ssed....yet AGAIN

[maica]

Charles Krauthammer, a regular commentator on the six pm Fox News show.

[NormsRevenge]

Applause Applause for the Shadowy Pres__ent

U.S. President Barack Obama walks on the West Wing Colonnade towards the Oval Office at the White House before his nationally televised State of the Union Speech later tonight on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 27, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)

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Here's Sarah On FoX!

[Tarpon]

I can’t believe that ZERO went to the SOTU with an eggplant. Bringing gifts?

[LostInBayport]

Is Sheila Jackson Lee there waiting to pounce on Obama like she would President Bush? LOL

He kissed her (yuck) but then he ignored her...pretty flatly, too!

[tioga]

it’s gonna be interesting............will the dems dare applause lines about health care? will they stand and be seen on camera?

[Never on my watch]

Like Obama’s lips...purple

[keepitreal]

LOL she tried to talk to the one after kissing him and he just kept on walking.

[dennisw]

0bama has his rap star gameface on
Meaning this speech will be forced and unnatural

A FAIL!

[rodguy911]

krauthammer is a brilliant guy. He is a shrink and has so many credentials many are awed when he speaks.