{"id":239247,"date":"2010-01-27T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63920"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:30:10","slug":"late-night-more-sotu-crap-%e2%80%94-the-view-from-wingnuttia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/239247","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: More SOTU Crap \u2014 The View from Wingnuttia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42dreams\/1878611309\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63952\" title=\"sad.clown\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/01\/sad.clown_1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"sad.clown\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>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&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell is indeed &#8220;the right thing to do&#8221;; 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&#8217;m just getting fluffed, but I <em>like<\/em> getting fluffed. Who doesn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>But speaking as a pinko myself, there&#8217;s no way that the <em>real<\/em> 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 <em>imaginary <\/em>Obama gave tonight. This would be the speech given by Obama the Radical Marxist, <span id=\"txt53724545\">as we learn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2010\/01\/27\/liveblogging-the-state-of-the-union\/\">the &#8220;live-blog&#8221; at the Wingnut Flagship, Red-State<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlights of the Red-State &#8220;live-blog&#8221; are the tasteful comments about Michelle Obama&#8217;s commitment to taking on the problem of childhood obesity:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<div>GopTiger:<span id=\"ecxecxtxt53779207\"> Michelle &#8220;tackle&#8221; obesity? Looked at her _________ recently? <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hilarious! He means &#8220;ass&#8221;! He said Michelle Obama has a fat ass! Comedy!<\/p>\n<p>Or then you have Jonah Goldberg <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JonahNRO\/status\/8305031710\">tweeting<\/a> about how he finds somebody else&#8217;s personal appearance comical:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><span><span>Pelosi&#8217;s got a really weird, glassy-eyed, Bride of Chucky thing going.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Because Jonah doesn&#8217;t himself have anything &#8220;going&#8221; that should be pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>And then you have Erick the Son of Erick, Red-State guru, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ewerickson\/status\/8307212318\">impressed by the hilariously staged Racial Outreach<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><span><span>McDonnell has the multi-ethnic thing going on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Expect the GOP to record huge gains in the minority vote going forward, because if there&#8217;s one thing those folks like, it&#8217;s seeing people who look like them standing around like furniture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63920&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_63920\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t Ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}