While it was a pleasure to watch and listen to President Obama's speech, the angry whiners afterwards complaining about that which he didn't say, should have said, and what they wanted him to say were the usual downers. Obama showed himself as someone seeing the glass half full.Paul Ryan who followed, especially, showed his negativity and gloom and doom scenario. He offered nothing constructive but only things to cut. He clearly has no idea the disastrous consequences to so many that his ideas would create if they were enacted.
Bachmann was even more ridiculous and spouted statistics with no context whatsoever about what made them. Her criticisms might have impressed a fifth grade teacher, had one of her students written it, but it was an embarrassment coming from a duly elected Representative.
Daniel, the intern who helped Representative Giffords and may have saved her life, spoke brilliantly, on MSNBC later. When Lawrence O'Donnell asked if he thought Obama should have mentioned the gun control issues, he wisely knew that the President had an agenda which didn't need to deviate and there would be plenty of time to address the gun issue.
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In an era where the unemployment rate has been above 9% for more than a year, and with the U6 rates and poverty rates higher than during the last several recessions, is the President being insensitive by declaring early in the SOTU that "The economy is growing again"?
No, Frank, I don't think he is being insensitive. The economy IS growing, just not fast enough for the "I want it yesterday" people.
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