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Finally got a chance to catch the SOTU speech and it was excellent, actually I was surprised he was able to pull off a speech that good after the setbacks of the past couple weeks.
Of course Obama is good at delivering speeches but at this point a speech on its own would have rung pretty hollow, especially if it was nothing but a defense of health care reform and other past initiatives. Instead, he laid out a number of actual new policy ideas that were not left or right pandering. Cutting the capital gains tax for small business, moving to block the effects of the Supreme Court decision, ending DADT, ending Bush tax cuts for over 250k earners and starting to cut the budget deficit in a serious way. He also mentioned the nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia that is in final stages which I think would be a major accomplishment.
Many in the left-wing media (like the Huffington Post) are continuing to attack him for trying to be bipartisan. But it's a pretty ridiculous line of attack considering that is the only way to get things done (and was before the MA election since at least 2 or 3 of the "Democrat" votes in the Senate are more conservative than a couple of the Republicans). All their bitching and whining will do is lead to disillusionment which leads to the other party getting elected, at which point the situation will be reversed, with the Dems being obstructionist.
At the same time Fox and the right will try to paint him as a socialist or extreme left winger but it is more and more clear to me their efforts are just the result of taking advantage of some of the extreme measures that were needed to stabilize the economy. It's not clear to me they will be able to demagogue campaign finance reform in the same way.
Only question is whether Congress and the extreme partisans will finally figure it out and stop bickering over pointless bullshit like little girls.
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