{"id":14563,"date":"2015-01-22T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14563"},"modified":"2015-01-22T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T08:01:47","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/the-state-of-the-union-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union &#8211; 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0122SOTU\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0122SOTU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0122SOTU.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They say a picture is worth a thousand words.&#160; Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union Address may be summed up by comparing the expressions on two faces, above: Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker John \u201cAgent Orange\u201d Boehner (R-OH).&#160; Here is the complete video, a link to the transcript, the video of the official Republican Response, and my own editorial commentary.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cse5cCGuHmE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You can get the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/01\/20\/378680818\/transcript-president-obamas-state-of-the-union-address\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I can\u2019t say that I agreed with him across the board.&#160; I\u2019m not convinced that he has sufficient protections for US workers built into the free trade agreement.&#160; I\u2019m also not sure he has as good a handle on terrorism as he implied, and I think he still looking for a solution to stopping ISIL, the organization created through Republican incompetence.&#160; He didn\u2019t even mention domestic terrorism from the Republican base.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">However, all things considered, the content was superb, and the delivery, even better.&#160; He drew a line in the sand for himself and the entire Democratic party going forward.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The official Republican Response, by Joni \u201cPig Nuts\u201d Ernst (R-IA) was as bad as Obama\u2019s presentation was good.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Extreme Barf Bag Alert!!&#160; 30 Gal. Capacity (or more) Recommended!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JhMvkog_OBk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She had nothing to offer, but the same old, tired, debunked, trickle down, promises that were lies thirty years ago, delivered with a glassy-eyed stare and an irritating, nasal whine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I am not including the \u201cTea Party\u201d Republican Response or the \u201cIdiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot\u201d Republican Response.&#160; A guy can only take so much punishment and survive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In the aftermath, Republicans are claiming that Obama offered nothing with which they are willing to agree.&#160; That is probably true, because he did not offer unconditional surrender.&#160; They are also claiming that Obama is proposing to raise YOUR taxes.&#160; If that\u2019s is true, would YOU give me a few spare million, please?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In closing, I hope that Republicans are willing to negotiate in good faith on matters that will benefit the American people without exacerbating the inequality they have caused.&#160; I am all for it, but to be honest, I just don\u2019t think they have it in them to challenge either their greedy billionaires or their rabid base.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say a picture is worth a thousand words.&#160; Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union Address may be summed up by comparing the expressions on two faces, above: Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker John \u201cAgent Orange\u201d Boehner (R-OH).&#160; Here is the complete video, a link to the transcript, the video of the official Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/the-state-of-the-union-2015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}