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He said with all due respect to separation of powers, he disagreed with the ruling. Thats like saying others disagree with the President, or that the President disagrees with congress.
Its not disrespectful.
Then, he urged congress to pass a law that would limit campaign finance from corporations and foreign interests.
I agree with the Supreme courts decision that McCain Feingold was unconstitutional, however, nothing wrong with the President asking congress to fix the loop hole either.
It is disrespectful in the same manner the dems claim that a congressman shouting out "You Lie" during a presidential speach is disrespectful.
The Prez's presentation was pretty good, except for the swipe at the Supreme Court. The duration was a bit long.
As for content, as I predicted, "If you come to fork in the road, take it." He was all over the place. To be fair, most State of the Unions are fluff fests.
Look up Reagan's first state of the union address. All he did was hammer the democrats, blaming them for all the mess he inherited.
What's different?
To me, the only thing that's different is people did not accuse Reagan of 'talking out of both sides of his butt'. How crude.
Well, there is one difference: Reagan is dead and buried, and his first SOTU was given thirty years ago, whereas Obama is the current president, and everything he says impacts us all, here and now. Other than that, what you say is pretty much right on, aside from the personal remarks about the OP.
It's reassuring that such acute intelligence is brought to bear on current issues...
what an jerk to humilate the court like that in front of the whole house, how is this any different from someone yelling "You lie"???
Both were wrong. But how does one wrong (you lie) make what the POTUS did justifiable? This one incident proved he does not have a clue how to be the POTUS. So tired of this gotcha game. Wrong is wrong.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made a dismissive face, shook his head repeatedly and appeared to mouth the words "not true" or possibly "simply not true" as Obama spoke.
Obama is clearly not making any friends with the lies he is telling...
Btw. the girl was sitting last time next to his wife, when Obama told the whole Nation how he would provide for her school, etc...has moved to Atlanta since the school couldn't be afforded anymore and the parent lost their job...sad, but Obama isn't stating things like that...of course not
That is the polite way of saying "You lie!" but he did lie.
0bama stated that the supreme court ruling opens the flood gates for foreign corporations to spend without limits in our elections, this is not true. Foreign corporations are not entitled to America's free speech rights.
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