Normally I would. I guess out of a measure of curiosity as well as a sense of national duty.
But these things have become so boring and predictable. Handshakes. Smiles. Pomp & Circumstance.
Than the droning endless enumeration of things accomplished (greatly exaggerated) and those yet to be undertaken (the agenda). One side applauds. The other frowns or - on occasion - behaves in insulting manner.
Since I'll be able to read the entire text online moments after the ceremony ends, am thinking time might be better spent with a good film, book or some music.
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And whatever you propose Sir ... Please don't mess with my Roth.
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Regards,
Ted
Of course he'll try to mess with Roths, if not today, then some other day, if only to insinuate the idea of taxing Roths into the sheeples' minds. This may get the Roth owners galvinized...anybody know the number/worth of existing Roth accounts?
Regards,
Ted
not his color...who cares what it is? the "persons a disaster"....
However, that was the last thing on my mind when I started what I thought to be an apolitical thread about the value of the Constitutionally mandated and time honored tradition of State of the Union Address.
Thanks for chiming in & Regards
*If parties want to continue discussing the race issue in this thread I have no objection ... (We gone)
I should know better than to discuss politics
In State of the Union Speech, Obama Defiantly Sets an Agenda to Help the Middle Class
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISJAN. 20, 2015
“The verdict is clear,” Mr. Obama said. “Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works. And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/us/state-of-the-union-obama-ambitious-agenda-to-help-middle-class.html?_r=0
It's all politics ,all the time!
The real issue is having the proper atmosphere so that those who are lower income and inclined to do better , have the opportunity to do just that. The US seems to be going in the opposite direction.
A nonwhite killing a nonwhite...happens every day, every hour.... no media hype reporting everyday?
exactly; that's the problem in 9 words.
>> I think his income inequality diatribes are a joke.
What diatribes? What are you thinking of, can you give an example? Maybe I missed something.
Well, of course you've totally loaded that question by asserting the questionable formulation that "Obama was a bad president ". But you knew that.
The terribly sad thing, to me at least, is that 'm inclined to agree with you. It's absolutely true that the other party did everything conceivably possible, short of an impeachment attempt, to make certain that Mr. Obama could achieve virtually nothing. And they succeeded.
But I have to say that I feel that Mr. Obama, in many instances, is his own worst enemy. Perhaps too intellectual to be a good president. Sometimes smarter isn't necessarily better, at least with respect to achieving results. He doesn't seem to appreciate the making of sausage.
In fairness to Mr. Boehner, he was for all practical purpose the prisoner of his own group of activists who also don't appreciate the making of sausage. Strange times, very difficult operating restrictions, for all who tried to find a middle path. Too many folks who elect to be complete losers as opposed to partial winners. And that's the real "state of the Union".
High Court?