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State of the Union–Open Thread

By Larry Johnson on February 12, 2013 at 9:15 PM in Current Affairs

Okay ladies and gents. Here you go. I can’t bear to watch the arrogant ass. My tolerance for listening to a litany of lies was surpassed months ago.

The yawning gulf between the myth of Obama pushed by the fawning media and the actual reality of a disengaged egotist puts the Grand Canyon to shame.

We learned last week from the outgoing Secretary of Defense that Obama was missing in action while American citizens in Benghazi were under attack and Ambassador Stevens had gone missing. Rather than order U.S. military forces to the scene to seize, hold and protect the two U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Obama hopped a plane for Vegas. He had fund raising to do.

And now, tonight, we get to hear him once again insist that the economy and jobs are his top priority. That is one steaming pile of bullshit.

Tonight we will get pandering, posturing and jutting jaw mixed with fake tears. What a gawdawful spectacle. Your thoughts?

  • Popsmoke

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…. We got smoke in two places tonight. The Hill and California….

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    not watching the Soetero fool lie and lie and lie.

    I’m watching the dog show instead. At least dogs have integrity.

    • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

      My wife is doing the same. We were cheering the Rottie.

      • Scorpio

        Go “Banana Joe,” !

    • Malcolm_Reynolds

      I rewatched the last episode of The Walking Dead during the SOTU. Zombies are much more interesting.

  • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

    This blathering asshole is completely delusional. Lives in a fantasy world. Can’t even get his own Democrats in the Senate to support his budget. Ignores the trillion dollar deficits he has created. And wants to pretend that global warming is a major concern. Blow me.

    • shelldoll2

      Don’t tempt me. Hey you opened the door I had to walk through it. Us military broads is tough.

    • JJ_the_PUMA

      His old B.S. doesn’t seem to bother me any more. Its the new B.S., his elevation of global warming as a major issue that really tics me off. Sandwiched in between mentions of the issue in his inaugural address and the State of the Union, was a one day, nine hour round trip flight to Vegas to give a single speech. Talk about a carbon footprint.

      • jrterrier

        He’s vacationing in West Palm next week. Cause I guess it’s not warm enough in DC or at Camp David.

    • Dave L.

      Very eloquently stated Larry, LMAO, truer words were never spoken. Its sad that anyone even gave one round of applause to this idiot. Its embarassing to even think that this asshat is the elected leader of this country.

    • Retired_from_SPOnaj

      But 51% bought his act. By the way, please don’t tempt fate by asking Obama to blow you. He’s so high on poppers to get through the speech that he may not know whether you mean felatially or droneistically.

  • HELENK2

    if anyone here has netflix there is a serial called House of Cards that is great. Kevin Spacy plays a congressman. Once you watch it you will want to see more.
    good for when backtrack is blabbering on and on

    • getfitnow

      Yep, I plan to watch all 13 episodes over the long weekend–which begins tomorrow for me. I hear it’s very good.

      • HELENK2

        I let dishes pile up my sink while watched because I wanted to see it all. I have read that they are filming another 13 chapters and I can not wait.

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    • HELENK2

      Sheriff press conference. no one has been inside the cabin. no body taken from cabin. no positive ID that it is chris dorn

      • sowsear1

        Eventually a charred body was taken out of the cabin which had burned to the ground….but they found his driver’s license!!! Sure.

  • http://noquarterusa.net Larry Johnson

    Jesus. What a total tool of a hypocrite. Calls on Congress to pass equal pay for equal work while paying the average woman in his Administration less than men.

  • shelldoll2

    I commend all of you who watch the lying hypocrite You have more strength than I. The speechifiying (Thanks grandma) it burns. I am watching the dog show.

    • MG6

      I am watched the “Big Bang”

  • binky354

    I just got home…and he’s still talking? and the Dems are still clapping? My gosh. I had to switch channels; I’m with you, Larry, I can’t stand the liar.

  • no_longer_a_democrat

    rubio much better. can’t wait to watch ran paul as well.

    • Popsmoke

      We getting treated to a Marx Brothers revival tonight! Obama, Rubio and Paul….
      If this is the best we can do. We are so fucked that even KY Jelly will not help!

      • Retired_from_SPOnaj

        And who has more KY than Rand Paul? Good one!

      • TeakWoodKite

        Wow, Popsmoke 4 thumbs down and I thought it was a funny one. Go figure.

  • Popsmoke

    Ok we got BLAH..BLAH from Obama… Now we get Paja …paja from the republicans….then we get a real treat! We get tea bagged!
    By the way, why is it that one is not considered bi-lingual if the other language is not spanish?

    • shelldoll2

      So what is the other language French? I went to school with bi-lingual students. There were students that were Swedes,, Spanish, German etc. Popsmoke you don’t seem to like this country or it’s peoples at all. Live overseas for a few years. . You can always become an expatriate. Please do. Just a suggestion.

      • Popsmoke

        Really? So those othef languages are considered bi-lingual here in the States (the country i supposedly hate so much) that no one considers them for employment unless they are for specific jobs. ?

      • TeakWoodKite

        मुझे लगता है कि आप महान हैं

  • buzzlatte3

    i couldn’t watch – can’t stand to hear his voice, let alone look at him on the TV -again….looked around the net and it appears like no one else seemed to want to be lied to, either.

  • HELENK2

    http://nation.foxnews.com/liberalism/2013/02/12/left-turning-their-own

    OMG rachael maddow turning on backtrack? can tweety tingles be far behind?

  • DianaLC

    I couldn’t watch any of the politics. It’s just too disappointing. I caught a bit of the Luntz poll stuff. It seems they are giving a favorable reaction to both Obama and Rubio. But what was funny was that though they gave Obama a favorable rating for what he said, they also don’t believe he will do anything favorable for the country.
    That’s been Obama all along. He talks, talks, talks, but he just lets everything go to hell because he doesn’t know how to accomplish anything constructive. At this point D.C. is just a totally plugged up toilet as far as I can tell.

    • KenoshaMarge

      I just don’t understand that kind of crap. How in hell can you perceive someone favorably and not believe what they are saying? What is wrong with people?

      • elizabethrc

        A pimp who takes a bath and wears expensive clothes is still a pimp. This group obviously didn’t look beneath the surface.

  • Justine00

    I can’t watch/listen to Obummer either. Waste of time.
    .

  • Van_Dessel

    I really don’t like Obama and watching the idiots get up and get down like they are at a Carey Wells concert. But Rubio’s “forceful rebuttal” was a waste of time. Don’t these guys get tired of talking and maybe start doing something that backs up their words. 1/2 the country is tired of these pontificating ******** and 1/2 the country believes every word that’s being sold.

    • getfitnow

      Rubio’s speech hit all the right notes- the best response to SOTU I can recall hearing. However, anyone who isn’t skeptical of all politicians, at this point, might possibly have some kind of attention deficit issue.

  • HARP2

    Damn…..I missed it. Oh well, I can watch last years or next year and hear the same damn thing.

  • elizabethrc

    I particularly liked his comment that his programs wouldn’t increase the debt (paraphrasing). Didn’t he also say, right after he became President, that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term? Look how effective he was with that!
    Believe nothing this man says. His words are nothing more than expedience to impress his audience at the moment. No matter how dramatically they are delivered, upon reflection, they’re still a whole lot of nothing. It’s such a shame that independent thinking has become an American dinosaur.
    I will not watch him.
    Apparently, off topic, but not quite, he’s issuing an executive order to cut our nuclear arsenal by a third. Russia and China must be thrilled that he will make us highly vulnerable.
    A well spoken charlatan is still a charlatan.

  • elizabethrc

    I heard Hoyer said that we don’t haved a spending problem, we have a paying for it problem. This even tops Pelosi’s frankly stupid comment that we don’t have a spending problem, we have a deficit problem.
    If I could take a look at the “are you qualified to be a Congressperson” regs, first on the list would be: you may not have an IQ above 80. These are stunningly stupid people.

    • KenoshaMarge

      But they are speaking, for the most part, to stunningly stupid people who swallow the swill they recite.

      • elizabethrc

        And they will give Obama’s second vacation of the year, which is 6 weeks old, a total pass.

  • getfitnow
    • Sally Vaci

      Yep, just another corpse on the ash heap of Leftism.

  • HARP2

    “As long as I’m commander-in-chief, we will do whatever we must to protect those who serve their country abroad.

    HELLO…..Benghazi

    • elizabethrc

      While Obama was busy ‘honoring’ certain individuals, why did he make absolutely no mention of the four patriots of Benghazi?

  • Sally Vaci

    “steaming pile of bullshit.” ‘nuf said.

    We’ve been watching the new version of House of Cards (Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright) on Netflix. It’s good and getting better at episode #4. Also downloaded and am getting caught up on Justified (fantastic!) and the brand new series by the Justified team titled The Americans – a Cold War yarn that shows a lot of promise at episode #2. Then there’s my continuing delight rewatching the #1 favorite TV series of my youth – My Three Sons. I know, weird. But I love it. A friend taped most of the 12 seasons and I find it to be a complete escape. It is utterly without guile, and hence the perfect antidote to the steamin’ pile in which we find ourselves immersed.

  • foxyladi14

    He is full of it.

  • HELENK2

    http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/usa-whitehouse-energy-idINL1N0BD9UD20130213

    whitehouse wants money from oil companies to explore renewable energy sources

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/feb/13/illegal-immigrant-tells-congress-not-call-him-ille/

    illegal immigrant tells congress not to call him illegal, it insults his family.

    there are no words for the chutzpa

    • KenoshaMarge

      Insulting him by calling him what he is insults nothing. His “response” insults the truth.

      Abe Lincoln said it best: “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
      And how about this:

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    • DianaLC

      “We suspect that our kids would be better off at forty for spending a summer on a tractor at fifteen, but we just can’t seem to risk the loss of a season’s computer camp or eco-camp in the bargain.”
      I loved this one, as I remember my own father becoming a little annoyed with me since I just could not make those straight rows in the field driving a tractor.
      I remember two Japanese exchange students on a trip to my sister’s farm/ranch. My fourteen-year-old nephew drover them all over the ranch and showed them all the animals and let them help as he fed the calves while the cows were being milked. All the 175-mile trip back to my house, I heard them jabbering together in Japanese, but I could pick out one word: the name of my nephew, who was obviously the topic of their discussion.
      I recently finally made copies of my family history on my father’s side. With that I included a small autobiography of my uncle that I helped edit. He’s my dad’s last sibling living. My two sons read that and both of them had the same comment–as they read about all the things he got to do growing up on the farm and about how all that helped him during his tour of duty in the Navy and for getting jobs later in those good old days. They both said, “I wish I could have grown up in those times.”

    • nickoury

      Wow. Excellent article by Hanson. Thanks.
      At the suggestion of commenter “vb”(February 13, 2013 – 2:18 am):

      “If you visit the Ram site and watch the commercial again, Ram will make a donation to the Future Farmers of America. It’s worth a click.

      http://www.ramtrucks.com/en/keepplowing/

      February 13, 2013 – 2:18 am

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/02/13/Dr-Ben-Carson-Slams-State-of-the-Union

    Dr Carson on state of the union speech.

    read the comments

  • HELENK2

    http://freebeacon.com/an-afghan-scam/

    investigation needed and money should have to be repaid and future money stopped.

    ben laden wanted to break the American economy. looks like his afghan friends are doing all they can to make it happen

  • HELENK2

    http://freebeacon.com/hagel-through-committee-on-party-line-vote/

    Chuck Hagel got through committee on party line vote

    • Retired_from_SPOnaj

      It’s a good thing that his party was in the majority or he never would’ve made it.

  • foxyladi14

    Who knew Chris Stevens would be forgotten so quickly by the nation he loved and served so dearly?

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/02/12/SOTU-Chris-Stevens-Was-Not-Even-Remembered

  • Declyn811

    Praise Obama. Allah akbar. Google translate that. its arabic

    • TeakWoodKite

      أوباما الثناء الله أكبر

  • Cosmo Smallpiece

    Larry, show us your wig, a yard above your knee!

  • HELENK2

    was thinking (always a scary thing) has anyone studied the impact on social security that those that have gone on disability when their unemployment ran out? I know the number has gone up under backtrack.

  • HELENK2
  • HELENK2

    General John Allen OUT as NATO commander

  • HELENK2

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/12/ObamaCare-Doctor-Shortage-No-Problem-Just-Redefine-Doctor

    a giant WTF

    In California your “doctor” may longer be a medical school graduate.

    wow I feel so secure NOT

  • HELENK2
  • Popsmoke

    I just hearc a CNN interview over this cop who was taken down. Why CNN brought in former SEAL sniper for comment is way above me. Additionally, while we need guys like this SEAL in the military. His comments were way the fuck out if line. Meateaters are trainer very differently than law enforcement and should remember that.
    So this seaweed picker believes eveyone who was not there should shut up? Really? So the recording of the cop yelling burn the MF out should be overlooked..eh? Just because this cop had a manifesto does not mean its fucking ok to judicially kill him or anyone else. I will wait and see what the investigation turns up. But special operators should comment on the areas they are trained and operate in otherwise they should shut the fuck up.

  • JohnnyTwoDog

    You are wrong Larry. The steam went out of that s- pile song long ago. Dried up to dust. It’s drier than a popcorn fart.

  • getfitnow

    video of the Kyle procession in rain. showing people pulling over.

    sad.

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/american-hero-chris-kyle-laid-to-rest/

    and this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ysgQPdyic

  • HARP2

    Canada Post cuts likely as Crown corporation faces $327M operating loss

    In order to stay afloat, Canada Post is considering:

    reducing home delivery from five to four, or even three, days

    closing some of the 6,500 retail outlets across the country

    consolidating its 21 sorting centres to just major cities.

    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-post-cuts-likely-as-crown-corporation-faces-327m-operating-loss-1.1156171#ixzz2Kq8kA68b

  • elizabethrc

    Dana Milbank has an excellent piece on the speech. He said it’s appropriate that the State of the Union speech and Mardi Gras fall on the same day.
    He said one is a display of wretched excess, when giddy and rowdy participants give in to reckless and irresponsible behaviour.
    The other is a street festival in New Orleans.
    He said that what went on under the Capitol Dome was as as debauched as anything on Bourbon Street.
    He then went on to use both barrels on both parties as well he should.
    It’s a shame that 61 million Americans won’t be swayed from their adulation of this pitiful leader who doesn’t have a clue about how to lead. Liberals quite clearly have no sense of shame, their standards are dropping like a stone and their thinking will never rises above the level of Obama’s meaningless promises.
    What staggers me is that some 66 million people voted for Obama while 61 million voted against him. That 5 million doesn’t even equate to the population in New York City.
    I continue to wonder how those 66 million are going to react when THEIR rights and their freedoms are curtailed right along with ours.

    • DianaLC

      I don’t care about the rights of those who voted for Obama because they sure didn’t care about the rights of those who have brains.

  • Ian McCloud

    Your blind hatred of Obama is a joke. I guess that is what happens when you run a hate-Obama website for 5 years. You have gone full Tea-Party nuts.

    Funny, but your GOP stopped talking about jobs after Romney lost. All they talk about now is the deficit and the austerity of spending cuts, which would hurt jobs and the economy.

    Keep on with your Benghazi bullshit. It does not help your cause. Just makes you look very very small.

    • HARP2

      Have another for the road and be on your way child.

      • Ian McCloud

        You NQbots have been so wrong for so long….

  • foxyladi14

    Happy Valentine’s Day! Everyone!!!!!

  • sowsear1

    Happy Valentine’s Day…from BO and MO

  • getfitnow