Another great speech that challenged the Republicans' lies about our president, but it could have been even tougher and more specific about the accomplishments of this administration and about the lies the right propagates.
He did score a lot of points, though most people weren't watching, and it doesn't matter to the right. Republican leaders sat still while others rose to their feet and cheered about common goals that anybody of any party should share, but they begrudge Obama any bit of respect or credit for all he's done.
Unfortunately so do too many Democrats and independents who have justified criticisms of Obama and/or Dems in Congress, though often a lack of understanding of the obstacles he and they face with the Republican intransigence and intention from Inauguration Day to do everything to discredit Obama and make him fail or appear to be failing.
But as he pointed out, there have been more jobs created in the past two years under Obama than in all the Bush/Cheney years, and our dependence on foreign oil is the lowest it's been in over a decade and has gone down from the highest it's ever been, which was under Bush/Cheney (hmmm...any connection to that fact and their connections to Saudi Arabia et. al.).
Not to mention GM now being the top car company in the world again (beating out Toyota) and Chrysler growing faster the last year than ever and Ford doing great and hundreds of thousands of jobs created as a result and all this from an industry the Republicans were willing to let die and even suggesting it'd be a good thing!
Here's a link to a few other facts that show some of Obama's accomplishments and some of the challenges he still faces.
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The only thing good about it is that it was likely his last state of the union speech.
Okay, I'm going to leave the deleted one's last comment so that we all can see that when he rejects any claim that he ever lies and demands his accusers furnish an example (as we all have done hundreds and hundreds of times, but in the common rightwing tactic he then changes the subject) we have. Because there were a few things Obama said last night that the Republicans, even the most rightwing ones, agree with and even stood and applauded, a sign that even they found things that were "good" in our president's speech. And, of course, any reasonable and informed and intelligent person, even some unreasonable, uninformed and not so intelligent persons, could find many many things in the speech that were "good." But the deleted one's lie means that he feels that standing up for our troops is not "good" and that calling for manufacturing jobs to return to the US is not good and that cutting the federal government and making it smaller and leaner and smarter is not "good" and that GM being the top automaker in the world again in not "good" and that our country relying a whole lot less on foreign oil since Obama has been in office is not "good" and that reparing our infrastructure is not "good" etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. So, I will leave this one very blatant and not very bright lie as an example of why he keeps getting deleted.
I look forward to President Obama's next four State of the Union speeches, and I also look forward to Jim moving to the Cayman Islands after he lands a job as vultural attache in the administration of Cayman Islands President Newt Romney (sic).
The tide is turning and people are waking up to and seeing through the fictions and scare tactics of the Repubes and Teapocrits. During President Obama's second term in office, the vast abyss and downslide created by Bush/Cheney will continue to reverse and a time of increasing prosperity will grow with a solid foundation and long term sustainability based on the long term good of the many.
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