State of the Union 2015

~ Clarissa

So who saw the State of the Union address? It was the best one in years. I totally loved it.

Good speech, good country, good people. I’m feeling very patriotic right now. Maybe I’ll put up the flag tomorrow.

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41 thoughts on “State of the Union 2015”

  1. I agree. It was the best SOU speech I can remember in my adult lifetime. And I’ve seen most of them since I turned 18! I even get a little teary eyed in spite of myself.

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    1. Surely you jest. I can remember Ike, okay as a child and adolescent, but still. Obama is the worst president that I have ever seen…as sleazy lying creep as Nixon and Clinton, and as cowardly politically correct and as weak as Jimmy Carter’s butt kissing.

      Your country deserves a better leader. I have never seen your country so divided, and I witnessed the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the feminist foolishness. Never have I seen so little hope and faith.

      Remember that far too many decide how they stand by how they sit…and I am old enough to tell that this can all change, and rather quickly.

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      1. I think that people who are led by the brainless weasel Harper should be more modest about criticizing other people’s leaders. The address was phenomenal, the economy is booming, and the Canadian dollar is plummeting. Maybe Canadians should concentrate on why their currency is doing so poorly compared to ours.

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        1. @bg: Never seen our country so divided? Have you been to the US? The really sharp sharp divisions between parties/ factions in this country began under G.W. Bush (truly the worst president this country has ever seen.)

          And the right is so rabid in this country that Obama has no chance at healing the divide. The Republicans entire agenda has been to discredit Obama. (And this isn’t me reading between the lines. It’s actually what they say.) Did you see Boehner’s facial expressions behind Obama? Obama says something mild like “all parents in this country should have access to high quality, affordable child care” and Boehner gets angry and refuses to clap. Truly: who can possibly object to high quality, affordable child care?

          I honestly don’t understand your hysterical objections to Obama bg. To be honest, I’m really suspecting that your objections are racially motivated– though you won’t admit that to yourself. How is he a “lying creep?” Nixon broke the law in a spectacular way– Obama didn’t. And who is Obama “butt kissing?” What policy objections do you have?

          I liked the speech last night as I said above. But I continue to have my problems with his policies (the Affordable Health Care act didn’t go far enough; I loathe his “college rating proposal;” I think we need more investment in our infrastructure; I want Gitmo closed etc. etc.) But despite my objections, I realize that by every imaginable measure, this country is in a better place than it was 6 years ago. It’s so patently obvious that it’s not even really up for debate. Do you think it was luck?

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          1. “Did you see Boehner’s facial expressions behind Obama?”

            • I thought the entire time that he was about to have a stroke.

            “Truly: who can possibly object to high quality, affordable child care?”

            • Woman haters.

            “To be honest, I’m really suspecting that your objections are racially motivated– though you won’t admit that to yourself. How is he a “lying creep?””

            • It’s just a different way fof saying “a thug.”

            “I loathe his “college rating proposal;””

            • I hate it passionately.

            “But despite my objections, I realize that by every imaginable measure, this country is in a better place than it was 6 years ago. It’s so patently obvious that it’s not even really up for debate.”

            • I’m wondering how it is possible for people who have been living here (not bg but others) not to recognize that. Back in 2007-2008, the country was a mess. We all remember that very vividly, don’t we? The economy was in shambles, and we all knew at least one person who was laid off or evicted. And those same people are all at work and with a smaller debt load right now. How is that not a good thing?

            What’s wrong with people?

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          2. Surely you jest. I can remember Ike, okay as a child and adolescent, but still. Obama is the worst president that I have ever seen.
            There’s simply no way Obama is objectively worse than Nixon, who is a study in bitter paranoia for his Watergate crimes, or Ford who decided that Nixon deserved a pardon for his crimes, or Shrub, who I blame entirely for not listening to intelligence reports that could have prevented 9/11,
            or Reagan, who was so mendacious and/or stupid that his administration officials laundered arms and money in exchange for hostages to a country that the US was at war with and still is hostile towards — Iran.

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            1. I was only here for Bush Jr, but, seriously, is there a person here who’d prefer to live in the US of 2007 as opposed to the US of 2015? Seriously?

              Let’s just all answer this question honestly and the worth of Obama will become very clear.

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            2. “Shrub, who I blame entirely for not listening to intelligence reports that could have prevented 9/11”

              • And then he created the global economic crisis and addressed it by giving state money to his cronies. And he went to war in Iraq which was a disaster and a half and still is. Gosh, that guy still gives me nightmares. He’s simply irredeemable.

              People, please do not inflict his brother on us. We’ve had enough of this family’s congenital idiocy.

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              1. A measure of how old I am and how weak minded I once was…. I remember when I like Bush I. I hoped he would be the nominee in 1980 and was bitterly disappointed at his heel turn into Reagan’s running mate.

                I had kind of liked Carter in 76 and may have voted for him, but he was a cooked goose by 1980 so I was hoping for a decent republican candidate instead of a walking mummy. IIRC I ended up voting for the Libertarian candidate in 1980 (my Ayn Rand fan days were over by then but the ashes weren’t cold.)

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          1. “LOL, really, so wages are increasing then”

            • If you actually listened to the speech you seem so obsessed with, you’d know the answer. Yes, there is now a growth in wages.

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          2. Wages haven’t increased much, it’s true. And that is the next hurdle to jump. But inflation/cost of living has remained fairly steady. So overall, it’s a wash. And the economy isn’t in free fall any longer. So we are still way way better off than 6 years ago. Truly bg, have you been to this country? I don’t mean that unkindly. It just seems like you don’t really any any understanding of the American socio-political situation.

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        1. Danmillerinpanama must be seething. On MLK day he actually decided to celebrate the birthday of confederate general Robert E. Lee.

          Seethe, seethe, seethe. 😀

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    1. I think of Clarissa as quite patriotic– especially considering that she’s not even a citizen. 🙂 Is it just me who thinks this?

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      1. Clarissas does say many very positive things about America and likes it a lot. However, for a speech to elicit strong feelings of “I love MY country and I’m going to put up the flag” in someone who has said before the only collective identity she likes is that of an immigrant and has discussed at length how the nation-state is an outmoded paradigm formed in part by strong myth making, it must be powerful. For something to elicit patriotism, there has to be a feeling of belonging and ownership associated with that country. 🙂

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        1. I’ve been paying taxes in this country since 2003. I believe I’ve bought myself both ownership and belonging aplenty. 🙂

          The flag is obviously an ironic gesture on my part but it is true that I think this is a great country, a great project. I’m here by choice and not by accident and I have things to compare this country to. But I really love the idea of the world’s reject, unwanted anywhere else, kicked out of everywhere for being eternal malcontents, gathering and kicking everybody’s ass (metaphorically.)

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          1. I’m here by choice and not by accident and I have things to compare this country to.
            This is why I resent the hell out of people who tell or imply to me I couldn’t possibly be from here or be a “real American” and I feel superior to them. I chose, they didn’t and I know more about this country than they’ve ever bothered to learn or could learn. This is why I DESPISE the hell out of McCain. The man had enough doubt about his own citizenship status that he consulted lawyers about it and some friendly colleagues adopted resolution that he is a natural born citizen but he encouraged every rabid-mouth breathing birther xenophobe racist ever.

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            1. “This is why I resent the hell out of people who tell or imply to me I couldn’t possibly be from here or be a “real American” and I feel superior to them. I chose, they didn’t and I know more about this country than they’ve ever bothered to learn or could learn.”

              • That is exactly what my position is.

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      1. “Using a different school computer, forgot to fill in my name along with the email address.”

        • I knew it was you immediately, though. 🙂 That’s what powerful writing is like.

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  6. The thing is, to these racists, everything that Obama says gets translated to “DIVISIVE!”

    Say a few kind words about Trayvon or Michael Brown: DIVISIVE!

    Say something about the harvard professor who was assaulted by the police for ‘breaking into’ his own goddamn house*: DIVISIVE!

    *Note that this created such a furor that the President of the US of fucking A had to invite the asshole Police chief to the fucking white house for a ‘beer summit’ to patch things up. For the sin of saying a few trite words about racial profiling. And you wonder why he’s ‘aloof’. The most innocuous and obvious utterances which – said by anyone else would bore people to death – said by by him turn into PR nightmares.

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  9. “Do you still vote in the American elections?”

    I don’t feel I should vote in local or state elections since I don’t live there but have no objection to presidential elections since that can affect where I live.

    The last time I actually did vote was 2004 (for Kerry). In 2008 and 12 I couldn’t vote for either candidate in good conscience and so I purposefully abstained. We’ll see how it goes in 2016…

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  10. How about writing your own Clarissa State Of The Union address about your blog?

    How was the past? Did everything work out as you wanted? Did anything particular happend, that made you happy/sad/suprised you? Are you happy with how your blog is right now? What about the Future? What are you going to do this year? Any big changes?

    I think you have an obligation to address us, oh great leader! 😀

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