Posted on 01/19/2015 4:05:11 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Two days from today on Tuesday, January 20, President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address to the American people.
This will be the sixth year President Obama has given a State of the Union speech, and each year, President Obama and his staff have spent weeks getting ready for the big night.
But the State of the Union was not always the way we picture it today. Article Two of the Constitution mandates that the president compose an annual State of the Union message, but it does not state that the president must deliver that message verbally. So up until President Woodrow Wilson, most presidents just submitted their State of the Union address on paper for Congress to review -- many of them didn’t give a speech at all!
In fact, what we think of today as the “State of the Union address” wasn’t even called the “State of the Union” until the middle of the 20th century. President Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to refer to his speech as a “State of the Union” address, with most presidents following suit.
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They are going with the tax increase as their big bullet. I say it is going t be a guilt trip on SCOTUS for gay marriage.
I’ll be burning tires in my backyard. “Global warming” hasn’t reached my part of the world just yet.
I plan to clean the lint out of my navel.
Very few Americans will be watching what POTUS Obama has to say, other then his cadre of “freeloader low lifes” and his “spin master, media goons”!!! Why will most Americans not tune in.....simple: Barack Hussein Obama lies....all the time!!!
I refuse to watch that Communist spew a pack of lies.
Two days. Please have your barf bags in the upright position. :-)
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