I kind of liked the SOTU. Obama gives a better speech than the last guy who had this gig. As for the Liberal Goodies, the student loan proposal really would be a radical improvement over the current shite state of affairs as far as paying for higher education goes; getting serious about deep-sixing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is indeed “the right thing to do”; and shoveling money at community colleges, particularly community college English professors, is just sound policy. The devil is in the details of course, and maybe I’m just getting fluffed, but I like getting fluffed. Who doesn’t!
But speaking as a pinko myself, there’s no way that the real Obama (by any sane measure an incredibly cautious centrist with an abiding faith in the conventional wisdom, to politely understate matters) could ever have given a speech that would please me more than the speech the imaginary Obama gave tonight. This would be the speech given by Obama the Radical Marxist, as we learn from the “live-blog” at the Wingnut Flagship, Red-State.
Highlights of the Red-State “live-blog” are the tasteful comments about Michelle Obama’s commitment to taking on the problem of childhood obesity:
GopTiger: Michelle “tackle” obesity? Looked at her _________ recently?
Hilarious! He means “ass”! He said Michelle Obama has a fat ass! Comedy!
Or then you have Jonah Goldberg tweeting about how he finds somebody else’s personal appearance comical:
Pelosi’s got a really weird, glassy-eyed, Bride of Chucky thing going.
Because Jonah doesn’t himself have anything “going” that should be pointed out.
And then you have Erick the Son of Erick, Red-State guru, impressed by the hilariously staged Racial Outreach of the GOP SOTU response on the part of Virginia governor McDonnell, a performance that had all the dynamic appeal of an inept late night infomercial about exciting new breakthroughs in masking tape:
McDonnell has the multi-ethnic thing going on.
Expect the GOP to record huge gains in the minority vote going forward, because if there’s one thing those folks like, it’s seeing people who look like them standing around like furniture.
