re: #716 Walter L. Newton

I don’t find the SOTU speech irritating at all. Since I don’t have a direct phone line to the President, since I can’t call him up and ask him what he is up to, I rely on opportunities like this to hopefully get some insight from our leadership as to the future of this country as they see it.

So I listen and I pay attention.

I asked for some insight from the left on this forum as to what they thought of the SOTU speech. Our first black President giving his first SOTU speech, and the only answers I get (from the people on the left that even bothered to answer) is some vague comments about applause and laundry lists, kitchen sinks and foot tapping?

That’s it. You got nothing more out of it than that? You can’t come back and tell me if this pronouncement or that pronouncement was truthful, or doable or realistic or something? This was an historic speech and no one on the left can dissect, pro or con opinion wise, dissect any part of the speech and give me some detailed observations?

Tragic… the left can’t even say anything nice, clever or substantive about Obama SOTU speech.

Walter, I’m still considering some of it, but also, I do not feel as though this is a forum in which I want to discuss Obama’s speech, let alone say anything nice about it, God forbid.

I love my lizards, but the environment around here has been fairly hostile the last little bit, at some points and on some topics. Like, I suspect, many of the liberals on this blog, I often choose not to discuss some of my thoughts and ideologies on certain issues, (taxation anyone?) because I know they are starkly at odds with the general atmosphere and will only lead to fights. Also, at the present time, I am not pleased with a number of things Obama is doing, but discussing them here, where people had already decided he was a failure and a fool long before he got into office will probably not lead to much of a meeting of minds.

So I’m sorry my pocket analysis doesn’t meet with your approval. Tell me what a typical lib I am, and get it off your chest. Or ask me a fucking question already.